Casino will remain closed until at least Sunday 15 March due to the Coronavirus outbreak. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
South Korea.- Kangwon Land, the only casino in\u00a0South Korea<\/a><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0where locals are permitted to gamble, will remain closed<\/a><\/em><\/strong> until 16 March due to the Coronavirus virus sweeping across Asia and the rest of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The casino had originally shut down gaming operations for three days from\u00a0Sunday 23 February<\/a><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0to Wednesday 26 February before later extending the closure for three more days\u00a0to 29 February<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n But on Friday, casino management took the decision to extend the closure once again for a further seven days to 6am on Sunday 15 March<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Inside Asia Gaming, the property\u2019s hotel, condominiums and ski resort will also remain closed while family theme park Water World will be closed until 20 March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As of Sunday evening, there were more than 7,000 confirmed cases of Coronavirus in the country and 50 confirmed deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The closure is only the second time the casino has shut its doors to the public in its history. It previously closed for one day in 2012 to check security cameras following a security breach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Casino will remain closed until at least Sunday 15 March due to the Coronavirus outbreak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3389,"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 permitting local patronage, has extended its operational closure until at least March 16 due to the escalating Coronavirus outbreak. This prolonged shutdown, impacting its integrated resort components, represents a significant disruption to its GGR and marks only the second such closure in the property's history. The decision reflects the broader public health crisis impacting leisure and gaming verticals across Asia.","focusai_entities":"Kangwon Land, Inside Asia Gaming","focusai_location":"South Korea, Asia","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.8), compliance_legal (0.7), operator_casino (0.95), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Impact Analysis","query":"What is the estimated daily GGR loss for Kangwon Land due to this extended closure, and how might this impact its Q1\/Q2 financial performance?"},{"label":"Contingency Planning","query":"What governance frameworks are being activated by Kangwon Land to manage this prolonged operational suspension, and what are the implications for employee compensation and B2B supplier contracts?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,28,16338],"tags":[29,7299,152],"class_list":["post-4249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-casino-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-casino","tag-coronavirus","tag-south-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4249","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4249"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4293,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4249\/revisions\/4293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}