{"id":6128,"date":"2020-04-30T11:49:41","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T11:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=6128"},"modified":"2026-04-24T05:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T08:36:12","slug":"kangwon-land-casino-closure-may-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/kangwon-land-casino-closure-may-11","title":{"rendered":"Kangwon Land extends closure to May 11th"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>South Korea casino to remain closed despite others in the country re-opening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>South Korea.- The Kangwon Land Casino will remain closed until May 11 despite other casinos in the country re-opening their doors amid the global Coronavirus pandemic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This means the casino will have been closed for at least 11 weeks, losing more than US$300million in revenue over that time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The state-owned enterprise first announced an initial three-day closure on February 23 but <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/kangwon-land-extends-closure-may-casino\">has continued to extend<\/a><\/em><\/strong> the closure due to the on-going Covid-19 outbreak. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Kangwon Land<\/em><\/strong> is the only casino in South Korea where locals are permitted to gamble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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":"<p>South Korea casino to remain closed despite others in the country re-opening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4773,"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 Casino in South Korea will extend its operational suspension until May 11, resulting in an estimated US$300 million revenue loss over 11 weeks, despite other domestic casinos re-opening. As the sole state-owned enterprise permitting local residents to gamble, this prolonged closure highlights significant economic and market access implications due to the COVID-19 pandemic.","focusai_entities":"Kangwon Land Casino","focusai_location":"South Korea","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.9), operator_casino (1.0), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Economic Impact Analysis","query":"What is the projected long-term economic impact on Kangwon Land's GGR and NGR, considering the US$300 million revenue loss and the competitive landscape with other re-opened casinos?"},{"label":"Regulatory Re-opening Strategy","query":"What specific public health and operational governance frameworks are informing the staggered re-opening strategy for South Korean casinos, particularly for a state-owned entity like Kangwon Land with exclusive local access?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,28,161,16338],"tags":[16470,16471,15033,152],"class_list":["post-6128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-casino-news","category-daily-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-east-asia","tag-kangwon-land","tag-lockdown","tag-south-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6128","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=6128"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777008740,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6128\/revisions\/777008740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}