{"id":14698,"date":"2021-02-15T15:35:17","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T15:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=14698"},"modified":"2026-04-23T21:49:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T00:49:23","slug":"kangwon-land-opens-after-two-month-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/kangwon-land-opens-after-two-month-closure","title":{"rendered":"Kangwon Land opens after two-month closure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The casino has opened again after the latest in a series of closures due to Covid-19 countermeasures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>South Korea.- Kangwon Land, the only casino in South Korea that is open to nationals, has <strong>reopened after closing due to Covid-19 countermeasures December 8<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The casino&#8217;s closure was <em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/kangwon-land-extends-closure-until-feb-14\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>extended until February 14<\/strong><\/a><\/em>\u00a0earlier in the month due to the level of alert in South Korea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government has now<strong> reduced the national alert level from 2 to 1.5, and from 2.5 to 2 <\/strong>in the greater Seoul metropolitan area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The casino will operate with <strong>a capacity limit of 1,200 people<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kangwon Land\u00a0is <strong>the largest casino in the country<\/strong> and accounts for about half of all gambling revenue annually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The casino has opened again after the latest in a series of closures due to Covid-19 countermeasures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":14703,"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 and a major contributor to the nation's gambling revenue, has recommenced operations following a series of COVID-19 related closures. This reopening is contingent on reduced national alert levels and a stringent operational capacity limit of 1,200 patrons. The facility had been closed since December 8, with extensions until February 14.","focusai_entities":"Kangwon Land","focusai_location":"South Korea, Seoul","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.95), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.95), marketing_crm (0.75), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (0.95), gambler_consumer (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR impact analysis","query":"What is the projected GGR impact for Kangwon Land given the 1,200-person capacity limit, and how does this compare to pre-pandemic operational metrics and EBITDA forecasts?"},{"label":"Regulatory compliance evolution","query":"How might this phased reopening and capacity management strategy influence future regulatory compliance frameworks and governance structures for land-based gaming operations in South Korea?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,23876],"tags":[16471],"class_list":["post-14698","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\/14698","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=14698"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14738,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14698\/revisions\/14738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}