JJY's phone is truly Golden LOL! I'm curious on what's going to come up next.

Do not export your cultural relativism to Korea.

What these men did is a crime in Korea whether or not you think it should be a crime.

The problem with illegal gambling is the large amounts of money that gets circulated while being totally unregulated by any government entity which makes it a prime opportunity for money laundering.

If you don't know what money laundering is, it's the concealment as to the origin of illegally obtained money such as through theft, drug dealing, extortion, prostitution, fraud etc.

Say for example Seungri makes 100,000,000 Won from his human trafficking activities. He cant just starting spending that money because the authorities will ask where he got so much money and since bills can be tracked with their unique ID's this becomes a liability for Seungri. However if he goes to an unregulated and therefore un-tracked gambling facility, he can change in his cash for chips, gamble whatever he feels like gambling and save it in a "save bank" hidden from Korean view or cash out and get a new set of bills. Since the transactions arent tracked by any regulatory agency, the chain of custody is interrupted and therefore the 100,000,000 won Seungri made from his human trafficking is now "clean", hence the term "money laundering".

So yes, illegal gambling is a huge deal because of its operation and use by organized crime.