Game Production and Game Distribution Business Registration

Procedure

Procedure

1. 01

   1. Determine the business type — Planning and producing games yourself is a game production business, and importing foreign games or supplying them while managing the rights is a game distribution business. If you do both, register each. Production by the state or local governments, production by educational institutions for their own training, and production by public institutions for publicity do not require registration.

2. 02

   2. Prepare the application documents — A game production business attaches a statement of production facilities and equipment to the application, and a game distribution business attaches a business plan. If the business premises are leased, submit a copy of the lease. The official checks the corporate registration certificate and building registration certificate electronically.

3. 03

   3. Registration with the city, county or district and issuance of the certificate — Apply to the city, county or district office with jurisdiction over the business premises and receive the registration certificate. A person (including the representative and officers of a corporation) for whom 1 year has not passed since a business closure order or registration cancellation, or who is within a business suspension period, cannot register for the same business type.

4. 04

   4. Game rating classification — If the purpose is to distribute a game or provide it for use, obtain a rating classification from the Game Rating and Administration Committee (or a designated self-rating business operator) before production or distribution. The committee decides within 15 days from the application date, and you submit materials such as a video of the main game progress, an executable game and a document on game content information.

5. 05

   5. Change registration, succession and closure — If the business operator (the representative for a corporation), business location, factory location or production items (production business), or handled items (distribution business) change, submit a change application within 30 days from the date the reason arose. The city, county or district notifies you within 15 days, and if there is no notice within that period the change is deemed registered. If you acquire the business, file a succession report, and if you close, file a closure report within 7 days.

Filing route

Filing route

Deadlines & processing notes

Deadlines & processing notes

Fees & official charges

Fees & official charges

Included in the basic fee — Initial document review, required-document guidance, basic form preparation, one filing support and one ordinary supplement.

Conditional success fee — For this service, any conditional success fee may be separately agreed within the lawful service scope and stated in a written engagement agreement. No outcome is guaranteed.

Displayed amounts are starting estimates, not statutory or standard rates. The final fee is confirmed after consultation and document review in the engagement agreement. Government fees and actual expenses may change.

Basic documents

Basic documents

Changes must be applied for within 30 days. This is easy to miss after a change of representative or an office move. The closure report must be filed within 7 days from the date the business is discontinued.