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The purpose of this study is to comparative analysis research the articles regarding gambling addiction and casino addiction published in domestic journals over the past 13 years to identify the trends in studies and seek implication from various of perspectives for future studies about social responsibility in the casino industry. For this, the author analyzed 313 articles themed on gambling addiction and 47 articles themed on casino addiction published from 2006, when a new casino opened in Seoul, till 2018. This study methods included descriptive statistics based on frequency and percentage, as well as text network analysis as keyword network analysis. The key finding of this study were as follow; first, as for the number of articles about gambling addiction and casino addiction published in journals, it increased in 2009 significantly, and the number was steadily on rise ever year after maximum number is published 40(12.8%) articles of gambling addiction 11(22.3%) articles of casino addiction in 2014. Second, as for trend studies of gambling addition and casino addition’s subject of research, most studies related to experience type of gambling addiction in relation to gambling addiction, next studies were conducted in order of social impact and policy alternatives. Most of the studies of casino addiction were social impact and policy alternatives, next frequent studied research was gambling motives and belief. Third, as a result of analysis of research trends of the subject of research presented in thesis and abstracts of domestic articles, the research trends related to gambling addiction showed high centrality in the order of gambling problems, money motives, gambling addicts, college students, race sports, and stress, and as a result of research analysis on casino addiction, key subject word such as gambling addiction, casino area, socioeconomic change, and casino law were highly connected. Finally, based on the resulted of this study, we discussed the direction of the study related to the subject of negative effects as part of the social responsibility of the casino industry in the future.