{"id":14138,"date":"2021-02-03T16:34:21","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T16:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=14138"},"modified":"2026-04-23T22:07:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T01:07:35","slug":"kangwon-land-extends-closure-until-feb-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/kangwon-land-extends-closure-until-feb-14","title":{"rendered":"Kangwon Land extends closure until Feb 14"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The casino operator has extended until the temporary closure of its gaming facilities until 6am on February 14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>South Korea.-\u00a0The only casino allowed to offer gaming to South Korean nationals has extended its current period of closure until February 14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Kangwon Land has seen several periods of closure due to the Covid-19 pandemic<\/strong>, starting on February 23, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> The latest shutdown of operations commenced on December 8. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government issued a Level 2.5 alert across the Greater Seoul region and a Level 2 alert for the rest of the country. The level of alert for Gangwon province, where the casino resort is located, would need to<strong> be reduced to Level 1.5 before the casino can reopen<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>See also:<\/strong> <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/grand-korea-leisure-extends-closure-until-feb-15\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Grand Korea Leisure extends closure until Feb 15<\/strong><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The casino operator has extended until the temporary closure of its gaming facilities until 6am on February 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":14140,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Kangwon Land, South Korea's exclusive casino for nationals, has extended its operational closure until February 14 due to ongoing COVID-19 Level 2.5 and Level 2 government alerts. This marks another prolonged shutdown since February 2020, impacting its gross gaming revenue (GGR) and operational continuity. Grand Korea Leisure has also announced a similar extension.","focusai_entities":"Kangwon Land, Grand Korea Leisure","focusai_location":"South Korea, Seoul, Gangwon province","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.9), operator_casino (1.0), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.85)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Impact Analysis","query":"What is the estimated daily GGR loss for Kangwon Land and Grand Korea Leisure during this extended closure period, and how does this impact their Q1 financial outlook?"},{"label":"Reopening Protocol Details","query":"What specific regulatory compliance and operational readiness protocols must Kangwon Land implement to facilitate a safe and compliant reopening once the alert level is reduced to 1.5?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,23876],"tags":[16471],"class_list":["post-14138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-asia-news","category-social-news","tag-kangwon-land"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14138","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\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14138"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14194,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14138\/revisions\/14194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}