The Korean Association of Game Operators (KAGO) has been created to create standards in the services offered by game operators. KAGO was formed by a group of Korean online game publishers, the Korean Ministry of Information and Communications and the Korea IT Information Promotion Agency.

This new effort formalizes much of the work of the Game Master, Game Producer (GMGP) community. The GMGP was made up of roughly 1,000 of Korea’s 15,000 game operators that provided assistance to one another. With its new backing and government support, KAGO should reach a large portion of the industry.

Online games are a large part of the Korean game industry and will be a specific focus of the new group.