{"id":12026,"date":"2020-11-23T21:32:36","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T21:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=12026"},"modified":"2026-04-23T23:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T02:50:10","slug":"seoul-casinos-enter-lockdown-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/seoul-casinos-enter-lockdown-again","title":{"rendered":"Seoul casinos enter lockdown again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The measure applies to all venues in the metropolitan area, including Incheon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>South Korea.- Casinos located in Seoul\u2019s metropolitan area, including Incheon, have had to cease operations once again due to a new spike in Covid-19 cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The measure will impact the foreigner-only casinos Gangnam Coex Seoul, Gangbuk Millennium Seoul Hilton, Paradise Casino Walkerhill Seoul, and Paradise City Casino Incheon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decision was made after over 175 cases were reported from November 15 to 21, double the previous week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government had already decided last week to <strong><em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/casinos-in-seoul-cut-capacity-limits\" target=\"_blank\">tighten restrictions<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. Since then, venues had only been allowed to continue operations with a 20 per cent capacity limit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The same limit was applied to horse racing, boat racing and bike racing, which are allowed to take bets from locals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new measures also mean the suspension of all horse, bike or boat racing events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Paradise City representative confirmed that the complex would to observe the new level 2 restrictions, and had suspended gaming operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The measure applies to all venues in the metropolitan area, including Incheon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12028,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"South Korean casinos in the Seoul metropolitan area, including Incheon, have suspended gaming operations due to a surge in COVID-19 cases, following the government's imposition of Level 2 restrictions. This measure impacts foreigner-only casinos such as Paradise City and other major venues, alongside the suspension of all horse, boat, and bike racing events. The decision reflects escalating public health concerns and directly affects GGR generation for the impacted operators.","focusai_entities":"Gangnam Coex Seoul, Gangbuk Millennium Seoul Hilton, Paradise Casino Walkerhill Seoul, Paradise City Casino Incheon, Paradise City","focusai_location":"South Korea, Seoul, Incheon","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (1.0), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.8), operator_casino (1.0), affiliate_publisher (0.7), product_ux (0.7), tech_data (0.7), marketing_crm (0.9), payments_fraud_aml (0.8), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Financial Impact Analysis","query":"What is the projected daily GGR\/NGR loss for the affected foreigner-only casinos, and how will this impact their Q4 and full-year financial guidance?"},{"label":"Regulatory Response Efficacy","query":"How do these Level 2 restrictions compare to previous regulatory responses, and what are the governance frameworks for potential government compensation or relief for licensed operators?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338,158],"tags":[12436,15033,152],"class_list":["post-12026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","category-slider-home","tag-casinos","tag-lockdown","tag-south-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12026"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12046,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12026\/revisions\/12046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}