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This article dealt with some legal issues mainly related to a Real Money Trading (RMT) in web-board gamesin Korea. For clarifying in detail, this paper showed lots of real case found in U.S. and China. These case studieswas to reach a common principle, that is, “ RMT is everywhere in the real world.” And then, this article tried toexamine and evaluate whether a RMT in web-board games has an intrinsic characteristic of gambling in terms ofthe legal questions. In this part, this study leads to the conclusion that a RMT in web- board games does not meetthe legal concept of “Chance” and “Prize.” Furthermore, it is not reasonable that providers of web-board gamestake legal responsibility for not only a RMT that is not controlled and caused by them but also quasi-gamblingexperience by the RMT. This analysis is supported by some cases ruled by Supreme Court in Korea. Nevertheless, a RMT in real world is still considered as illegality of providers of web- board games by theKorean government. And more, in recent, the government gets to apply more strict regulation to most kinds ofgame. This is not common and proper regulatory system in national service areas as well as the WTO and/orFTA systems.