{"id":16902,"date":"2021-04-15T16:43:21","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T16:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=16902"},"modified":"2026-04-23T20:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T23:21:10","slug":"south-korea-only-two-jeju-casinos-currently-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/south-korea-only-two-jeju-casinos-currently-open","title":{"rendered":"South Korea: only two Jeju casinos currently open"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Jeju Shinhwa World and Paradise Casino are the only foreigner-only casinos currently operating on Jeju island in South Korea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>South Korea.- Although there are eight casinos on Jeju island,\u00a0<strong>only two are open<\/strong>:\u00a0<strong>Jeju Shinhwa World<\/strong>, operated by Hong Kong-listed Landing International, and\u00a0<strong>Paradise Casino<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The casinos are struggling owing to the lack of tourism due to <strong>the Covid-19 pandemic<\/strong>. In some cases, there is no opening date in sight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>South Korea\u2019s foreigner-only\u00a0<strong>casino operators\u00a0<\/strong>depend almost entirely on the arrival of tourists. During the first two months of 2021 combined,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/tourism-in-south-korea-down-90-4-in-february\">tourist arrivals to South Korea were down 93.7 per cent<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Lotte Tour Development<\/strong>\u00a0recently received permission to transfer its casino to the Jeju Dream Tower, but\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/jeju-casino-opening-could-be-delayed-by-rise-in-covid-19-cases\">the company could face a new delay in opening due to the Covid-19 pandemic<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government has postponed <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/south-korean-casinos-allowed-to-postpone-sales-taxes-payment\">the deadline for South Korean casinos to pay their sales taxes<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to local media, <strong>Jeju has recorded 41 new Covid-19 cases during April<\/strong>. South Korea has recorded 698 new cases in 24 hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeju Shinhwa World and Paradise Casino are the only foreigner-only casinos currently operating on Jeju island in South Korea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":16903,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Jeju Island's foreigner-only casinos, including Jeju Shinhwa World and Paradise Casino, are severely impacted by a 93.7% decline in tourist arrivals to South Korea due to the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to operational struggles and closures. The South Korean government has responded by postponing sales tax deadlines for these operators, while Lotte Tour Development faces further delays for its Jeju Dream Tower casino launch.","focusai_entities":"Jeju Shinhwa World, Paradise Casino, Landing International, Lotte Tour Development, Jeju Dream Tower","focusai_location":"Jeju Island, South Korea","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.9), operator_casino (1.0), investor_analyst (0.98), supplier_vendor (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.95)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on GGR projections?","query":"What is the projected GGR impact for Jeju's foreigner-only casinos for FY2021, considering the sustained decline in tourist arrivals and operational disruptions?"},{"label":"Regulatory support efficacy?","query":"How effective are the government's sales tax deferrals in ensuring the long-term operational viability and solvency of these distressed casino operators?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,23876],"tags":[1705],"class_list":["post-16902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-asia-news","category-social-news","tag-paradise-co"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16902","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=16902"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16913,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16902\/revisions\/16913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}