GTA 6 was almost too much for South Korean ratings board GCRB, who struggled to agree whether the game should be approved or not. The board cited “out of context genital nudity” as the sticking point.

Rockstar sent an application for a South Korean rating on September 1. The initial vote, held on September 10, ended in a tie, with three votes for classification refusal and three for an Adults Only rating.

InvenGlobal acquired the meeting minutes from the voting sessions, where some board members argued for classification refusal over in-game nudity. When voting resulted in a tie, they chose to postpone the decision while awaiting a playable build of the game.

A GTA 6 build was delivered to the committee on September 28 and an initial revisit of the board was postponed twice for a more "sufficient gameplay examination.” That’s one way to get to play it early.

After being initially pushed from October 2 to October 8, it was pushed once more and the committee met again on October 18. The second review passed a vote for an Adults Only rating with eight voting in favor of the rating and one voting against classification.

The content descriptors were assigned as “Sensuality, Violence, Crime, Drugs, and Language.” That first one, “Sensuality,” was the issue.

According to the report, the committee took particular issue with male nudity without any sexual context. The South Korean ratings board revised its regulation rules in September 2025, but previously even a suggestion of nudity could land a game with an Adults Only rating.

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