{"id":11184,"date":"2020-10-24T18:28:42","date_gmt":"2020-10-24T18:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=11184"},"modified":"2020-10-27T12:10:41","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T12:10:41","slug":"south-koreas-kangwon-land-accused-of-favouritism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/south-koreas-kangwon-land-accused-of-favouritism","title":{"rendered":"South Korea&#8217;s Kangwon Land accused of favouritism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Three companies have won over half of the state-run casino\u2019s tenders since 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>South\u00a0Korea.-\u00a0An opposition legislator has raised questions about the state-run casino Kangwon Land, alleging that tenders have favoured companies owned by the same family.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to representative\u00a0Ku\u00a0Ja-keun\u00a0of the opposition People Power Party, more than half of procurements since 2013 have been granted to three companies owned by relatives of\u00a0Suh Kyung-bae, chairman of\u00a0AmorePacific\u00a0Group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taeshin\u00a0Inpack,\u00a0Nongshim\u00a0Data System Corp (NDS) and KGS have won three out of four bids in the last two years, despite irregularities reported in their procedures, he alleged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Suh Kyung-bae is the son-in-law of NDS chairman Shin Chun-ho and a cousin of the heads of Taeshin\u00a0and KGS.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ku is calling for the\u00a0Board of Audit and Inspection\u00a0to launch a probe after it was discovered NDS was awarded an electronic table games contract even though its proposal was submitted after deadline. He says that to review the company&#8217;s bid, the casino violated a clause that states all bids to be opened simultaneously.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kangwon Land, the only South Korean casino at which local residents are allowed to gamble, reopened this month after a second lockdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three companies have won over half of the state-run casino\u2019s tenders since 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":11186,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,16338],"tags":[29,16471,152],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11184"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11191,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11184\/revisions\/11191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}