GTA 6 South Korean Age Rating Confirms Previous Leaks Were A Dev Build

GTA 6 Was Almost Refused Classification In South Korea For Nudity “Without Context” Source: Rockstar Published Nov 12, 2026, 8:23 AM EST George is the Lead News Editor for TheGamer, and has been working in the industry since 2021 after graduating from the University of South Wales with a bachelor's degree in Journalism. He has also previously written for RPG Site, WhatCulture, and PlayStation Lifestyle. George is an expert on platformers, action games, and fighters, but tends to play as many releases as possible. This hands-on experience lets him dive into gaming communities and follow the latest trends. Some of the games George has extensively covered first-hand include Dead Rising, Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero, Assassin's Creed Shadows, and Ninja Gaiden 4. Sign in to your TheGamer account South Korea almost refused to give Grand Theft Auto 6 an age rating due to the overwhelming amount of nudity “without context” that looked even worse thanks to Cyberleek. I can’t believe we’re finally here, but we’re now officially one week away from the release of GTA 6. It’s been a long, long road, but things have finally started to feel real over the past few months as the game’s final trailers, marketing, collaborations, screenshot batches, and more have emerged to show just how far Rockstar’s marketing can go. On the more official end, age-rating boards have started to share their ratings for GTA 6, unsurprisingly confirming that it’s getting the highest possible classifications across the board. That just about includes South Korea, which apparently almost outright refused to give the game a rating due in part to its “background genital exposure”. GTA 6 Barely Gets An Adults Only Rating In South Korea Cyberleek’s Dev Build Footage Actually Made Things Worse Source: Rockstar As pointed out by ResetEra user TheAbsolution, Inven Global has shared a report on just how close GTA 6 got to being refused classification in South Korea. You might think that it’s because of the game’s more realistic violence or drug use, but that’s not the case, as the board deemed that it wasn’t too much more advanced than GTA 5. The problem lies with the game’s more frequent nudity, specifically without any “sexual context”, essentially referring to background characters who are naked in-game. One member of the board pointed out that the nudity was an issue because it “has never appeared this frequently without context” or with “narrative justification”. The report also shows that there was some pressure to figure it out so that South Korea wasn’t the only country to refuse to give GTA 6 a rating. South Korea’s rating board’s first meeting ended with a tie and resulted in a copy being given for review to evaluate “sensuality”. The board found that the “genital exposure scenes” appeared as one-offs in the background that didn’t lead to any interactions. The board even had to request a map from Take-Two multiple times to find the nudist gathering that was previously leaked. Eventually, the decision was made to give GTA 6 an Adults Only rating, which was in part due to the infamous leaked nudity scenes from Cyberleek not being found in-game, confirming once and for all that it was a dev build hack and not meant to be seen. It’s not clear if any modifications ended up being made by Rockstar or Take-Two, but at least a classification has been issued.