Amended fixed-odds voting ticket detailed rules take effect

The amended Detailed Rules for Fixed-Odds Voting Tickets took effect on Friday 27 March 2026, operator Korea Sports Leisure Co., Ltd. said in a notice published on the Sports Toto website on 13 March 2026¹. The rules govern the fixed-odds betting products sold under the state-run Sports Toto and Proto brands in South Korea¹.

The notice listed four main changes: revisions and rule explanations to introduce first-half football products in the win-draw-loss (seungbu) category; revisions to introduce a football double chance type and other types; revisions to introduce new baseball record (girok) types; and explanations of target-match valid and void rules under a new Proto round structure¹. The operator said the rules follow the National Sports Promotion Act, its enforcement decree and enforcement rules, and the Sports Promotion Voting Ticket terms and conditions¹.

Purchase methods and unit stakes are unchanged in the published text. A single-match purchase costs a unit voting amount of 1,000 won, while a combination purchase of 2 to 10 matches costs a unit voting amount of 100 won¹. Combination purchase is not allowed between any types covering the same match, including first-half products; the rules give the example of a Korea versus Japan football match organized as types 0001 to 0008, where none of those types may be combined with each other¹.

Settlement rules set out in the text include:

Applied match time differs by sport. Football runs from kickoff to the end of the second half, excluding extra time and penalties, with first-half products running to the end of the first half. Baseball runs to the final end of the match including extra innings and the tiebreak, with first-half products running to the end of the fifth inning. Basketball includes overtime, and volleyball runs to the final end of the match¹. If a match is declared void under the ticket terms, all types are settled at 1.0 odds regardless of earlier results, but a match recognized as official by the governing body is settled normally, such as a rain-shortened baseball game called after five innings¹.

What it means for players

The changes apply to fixed-odds tickets bought from 27 March 2026, so tickets already purchased are settled under the rules in force when they were bought¹. Football bettors now have first-half markets and a double chance type alongside the existing home-team win, draw or loss, handicap, over/under, odd/even and win-draw, draw-loss, win-loss types¹. Baseball record bettors have new types, including final score difference, first-half and final result, and total runs, with draws settled at 1.0 odds¹.

The 1.0 odds treatment matters for combination tickets: a void or drawn leg does not lose the whole ticket but reduces the return, and a ticket is refunded only if every selection is void². The 100 million won payout cap per ticket remains, and the operator restricts sales where expected odds multiplied by the individual stake would exceed it¹. The rules also state that schedules and odds can change, and that each customer is settled at the odds and conditions printed on their receipt at the time of purchase².

What happens next

The amended rules apply from 27 March 2026¹. The notice points readers to an attached before-and-after comparison table of the amended articles for detail, and directs questions to the customer center on 1588-4900¹. A separate notice on the same site announced a postponement of a suspension of Sports Toto sales, but its contents were not part of the notice published on 13 March 2026¹.