GTA 6 came within one vote of being refused classification in South Korea, and the ratings-board minutes that reveal it also quietly confirm that the game’s most notorious leak came from a developer build that players will never see.
Meeting minutes from South Korea’s Game Content Rating Board (GCRB), obtained by Korean outlet Inven Global, show Rockstar Games filed its rating application on September 1, 2026. The first review on September 10 ended in a 3-3 tie between refusing classification and granting an Adults Only rating, with the committee postponing its decision and advising Rockstar to modify the game. A refusal would have blocked GTA 6’s release in South Korea entirely, the board’s records show, a week before the game arrives on PlayStation and Xbox.
After a playable build reached the committee on September 28, the second review was postponed twice so researchers could examine the game more thoroughly. The final review voted 8-1 in favor of an Adults Only rating in mid-October. (PC Gamer reports the vote fell on October 16; IGN says October 18.)
What the minutes say about the leak
The most striking detail sits in the researchers’ findings. After playing the build at length, they concluded that scenes with full-frontal nudity do not allow any sexual interaction, that sex scenes between protagonists Jason and Lucia do not expose genitalia, and that genital exposure appears only as background moments with no interaction attached. One committee member said the nudity “has never appeared this frequently without context.”
Those same researchers could not replicate the full stripping of Jason and Lucia that appeared in videos released by leaker Cyberleek, meaning the retail game is not expected to let players roam in the nude. The board also had to ask Take-Two for a map, more than once, to locate the nudist gathering shown in that leaked footage. Because the first review took place before the committee had a playable build, members’ early sense of the game may have been shaped by the leaked videos themselves.
The minutes carry a caution, though: the dev-build reading rests on researchers failing to reproduce what the leak showed, not on any statement from Rockstar, and the findings are secondhand reporting on a single primary document.
GTA 6 was the first game judged under the GCRB’s revised standards from September 2025, which permit an Adults Only rating where suggestive bodily exposure is depicted without graphic sexual acts. One dissenting member warned the decision means “background genital exposure will frequently appear in future RPGs as a result.”
The final vote was also informed by the fact that 10 other ratings institutions, including the US ESRB and Europe’s PEGI, had already rated GTA 6, which received a PEGI 18 in October 2026 citing decapitation and unrestricted cocaine use.
Rockstar has spent the final weeks before release rolling out a new GTA 6 screenshot gallery, while Take-Two says pre-orders are surging and that hit-making “remains the purview of human beings.”
GTA 6 launches November 19, 2026 on PS5 and Xbox Series X and S.
