{"id":23916,"date":"2021-10-26T10:08:23","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T13:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=23916"},"modified":"2026-04-23T14:27:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T17:27:24","slug":"kangwon-land-to-reopen-for-fully-vaccinated-clients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/kangwon-land-to-reopen-for-fully-vaccinated-clients","title":{"rendered":"Kangwon Land to reopen for fully vaccinated clients"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Kangwon Land will reopen on November 1 for those who have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

South Korea.- The South Korean casino\u00a0Kangwon Land\u00a0<\/strong>has confirmed that authorities have allowed the casino to resume operations from November 1. Only people who have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19 will be allowed to enter. People will need to\u00a0show a vaccine pass proving that they have been fully vaccinated<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of South Korea<\/strong>\u00a0said the rule does not apply to the country\u2019s 16 foreign-only casinos. New details are expected on Friday. The Ministry of Health has reported\u00a0a total of 1,266 new Covid-19 cases <\/strong>in the last 24 hours.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Due to the lack of tourists as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic,\u00a0Lee Sang-heon<\/strong>, a member of the Democratic Party of Korea on the\u00a0National Assembly\u2019s Culture, Sports and Tourism Committee<\/strong>, has suggested casinos should be allowed to introduce\u00a0online gambling services<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the Korea Casino Association, South Korea\u2019s foreigner-only casinos <\/strong>recorded aggregate gambling sales of KRW178.29bn (US$151.3m) during the first half of the year. In 2020, the figure was KRW597.8bn, down 60 per cent year-on-year when compared to 2019<\/strong> when the industry collected a total of KRW1.45tn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kangwon Land Inc.<\/a>, the only casino in South Korea that is open to locals, had\u00a0casino sales of KRW302.17bn\u00a0<\/strong>in the first half of the year. It welcomed 286,611 tourists. In 2020 the casino operator reported sales for KRW443.55bn and registered a tally of 599,265 visitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the first half of this year, the total gaming sales of the 16 foreign-only casinos in South Korea came to KRW178.29bn <\/strong>while the full-year sales in 2020 were KRW597.8bn. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kangwon Land will reopen on November 1 for those who have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":17776,"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 sole casino accessible to locals, will reopen on November 1 for fully vaccinated individuals, a policy not extended to the nation's 16 foreign-only casinos. This reopening occurs amidst significant revenue declines across the sector due to the pandemic, prompting legislative proposals for online gambling services to mitigate tourist-dependent revenue shortfalls.","focusai_entities":"Kangwon Land, Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of South Korea, Ministry of Health, Lee Sang-heon, Democratic Party of Korea, National Assembly\u2019s Culture, Sports and Tourism Committee, Korea Casino Association, Kangwon Land Inc.","focusai_location":"South Korea","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.8), operator_casino (0.9), tech_data (0.7), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Online Gambling Feasibility","query":"What are the specific legislative hurdles and timeline for the proposed introduction of online gambling services in South Korea, and how would this impact the existing B2B\/B2C licensing frameworks?"},{"label":"Reopening Revenue Projections","query":"How do the projected GGR and NGR for Kangwon Land, post-reopening with vaccinated-only access, compare to pre-pandemic levels, and what is the anticipated impact on its market share relative to the foreign-only casino segment?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,16338,158],"tags":[23632,16471],"class_list":["post-23916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casino-news","category-east-asia-news","category-slider-home","tag-integrated-resorts","tag-kangwon-land"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23916","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=23916"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23922,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23916\/revisions\/23922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}