Grand Theft Auto 6 has been granted an Adults Only rating in South Korea by the country's Game Content Rating Board. But in the weeks preceding that decision, the board had nearly refused to issue the game an age rating—effectively leaving it ineligible for sale in South Korea—due to ratings officials' concerns that GTA 6 might be way too comfortable hanging unprompted hog.

According to GCRB meeting minutes obtained by South Korean outlet Inven (via Kotaku), GTA 6 required a total of three ratings reviews, in which committee members repeatedly debated the presence of what they described as "out-of-context genital nudity"—a perception that seemed to have been informed by the leaked GTA 6 developer build footage circulated by cryptopeddling cornball master criminal, Cyberleek.

The GCRB's initial rating review for GTA 6 took place on September 10, during which committee members argued over whether the game's "out-of-context genital nudity" was grounds for refusal. Previously, the GCRB's rating standards automatically rejected games with exposed genitalia, but those standards were relaxed in 2025 to permit an Adults Only rating for "cases where suggestive bodily exposure is directly and specifically depicted," as long as that depiction didn't extend to graphic sexual acts.

Despite that revision, the committee members arguing to refuse an age rating for GTA 6 said that, while the GCRB had previously permitted "a certain degree of genital exposure where there is narrative justification," they "did not believe genital exposure to this extent falls within acceptable limits."

As the report notes, that first review meeting occurred before the GCRB received a playable GTA 6 build, meaning that the GCRB members' perception of the extent of visible in-game genitalia could have been informed by Cyberleek's leaked footage of an in-game nudist colony —an area that, despite the abundance of human flesh on display, didn't actually entail much sex going on.

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