SOUTH KOREA - Sole sports lottery operator Tiger Pools Korea offers pool betting on soccer matches through some 3,000 Sports TOTO booths around the nation and on the Internet.

THAILAND - All gambling other than betting on horse racing is illegal. But live broadcasts of European soccer matches and half a dozen daily sports newspapers fuel a thirst for underground gambling. Police have threatened to crack down on illegal betting during the World Cup, briefly proposing to delay match broadcasts by half an hour.