{"id":20481,"date":"2021-07-20T15:23:17","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T15:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=20481"},"modified":"2026-04-23T17:26:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T20:26:23","slug":"gkl-temporarily-closes-seven-luck-seoul-gangnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/gkl-temporarily-closes-seven-luck-seoul-gangnam","title":{"rendered":"GKL temporarily closes Seven Luck Seoul Gangnam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Grand Korea Leisure has announced the temporary closure of the Seven Luck Seoul Gangnam until Thursday after a worker tested positive for Covid-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>South Korea.-\u00a0<strong>Grand Korea Leisure (GKL)<\/strong>\u00a0has announced the temporary closure of its<strong>\u00a0Seven Luck Seoul Gangnam<\/strong>\u00a0until 11am on Thursday (July 22) to carry out disinfection after a worker tested positive for Covid-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It comes just a week after a snap-closure at the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/gkl-temporarily-closes-seven-luck-casino-millennium-in-seoul\">Seven Luck Casino Millennium Seoul<\/a>, which was closed as a \u201cpre-emptive measure\u201d aimed to\u00a0<strong>avoid the spread of Covid-19 cases<\/strong>\u00a0to protect the safety of customers and employees. The Seven Luck Seoul Gangnam was also previously closed just a few days before, from July 10 to 12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>South Korea\u2019s\u00a0<strong>prime minister Kim Boo-kyum<\/strong>\u00a0has increased social distancing rules in Greater Seoul to Level 4 until at least July 26. During the last 24 hours, the Ministry of Health reported\u00a0<strong>1,278 new Covid-19 cases<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/grand-korea-leisure-posts-sales-of-us13-1m-in-june\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">GKL<\/a>&nbsp;reported<strong>&nbsp;that casino sales in June rose by 45.6 per cent&nbsp;<\/strong>when compared to the previous month, up from US$9.2m to US$13.1m.&nbsp;<strong>Sales were up 18.7 per cent<\/strong>&nbsp;when compared to 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Table games sales reached KRW13.28bn, up 60.6 per cent when compared to May and 27 per cent when compared to last year.&nbsp;<strong>Machine game sales&nbsp;<\/strong>were weak during June, with a decline of 19.3 per cent month-on-month and 24 per cent year-on-year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grand Korea Leisure has announced the temporary closure of the Seven Luck Seoul Gangnam until Thursday after a worker tested positive for Covid-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":18629,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Grand Korea Leisure (GKL) has announced the temporary closure of its Seven Luck Seoul Gangnam casino due to a worker testing positive for Covid-19, following other recent pre-emptive closures amidst heightened social distancing in Greater Seoul. Despite these operational disruptions, GKL reported a significant 45.6% month-on-month increase in June casino sales, driven primarily by table games, though machine game sales declined.","focusai_entities":"Grand Korea Leisure, Seven Luck Seoul Gangnam, Seven Luck Casino Millennium Seoul, Kim Boo-kyum, Ministry of Health","focusai_location":"South Korea, Seoul, Greater Seoul","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.85), operator_casino (0.9), investor_analyst (0.98), supplier_vendor (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GKL Q3 Financial Impact?","query":"What is the projected financial impact of these repeated operational closures on Grand Korea Leisure's Q3 earnings guidance, considering the reported June sales performance?"},{"label":"Mitigation Strategies for GKL?","query":"What specific mitigation strategies is Grand Korea Leisure implementing to minimize future operational interruptions from public health events and ensure business continuity?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,16338],"tags":[492],"class_list":["post-20481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casino-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-gkl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20481","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=20481"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20504,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20481\/revisions\/20504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}