{"id":6559,"date":"2020-05-19T11:38:55","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T11:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=6559"},"modified":"2026-04-24T05:08:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T08:08:23","slug":"kangwon-land-hours-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/kangwon-land-hours-south-korea","title":{"rendered":"Kangwon Land granted more tables and extended hours"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Under the new measures, opening hours will be increased from 18 hours per day to 20 hours with an extra 20 gaming tables. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>South Korea.- South Korea\u2019s only casino for locals to legally gamble, <strong><em>Kangwon Land<\/em><\/strong>, has been granted more tables and extended opening hours by the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The country&#8217;s Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism will allow the casino to make the changes once its mass gaming floor reopens following the Covid-19 outbreak. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/kangwon-land-casino-resume-south-korea\">Kangwon Land resumed operations on May 8<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, but only its VIP floor and not its main gaming floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the new measures, opening hours will be increased from 18 hours per day to 20 hours. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They have also been permitted add an extra 20 tables, going from 160 to 180 tables.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kangwon Land said in a statement: &#8220;The operating plan due to the changed business hours and the increase in the number of general business tables will be discussed separately with the Ministry of Education.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under the new measures, opening hours will be increased from 18 hours per day to 20 hours with an extra 20 gaming tables.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6563,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"South Korea's Kangwon Land, the nation's sole casino for local patrons, has secured regulatory approval from the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism to expand its operational capacity. This includes an increase in daily operating hours from 18 to 20 and the addition of 20 gaming tables, raising the total from 160 to 180, once its mass gaming floor fully reopens.","focusai_entities":"Kangwon Land, Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism","focusai_location":"South Korea","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.8), operator_casino (1.0), marketing_crm (0.7), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Impact Analysis","query":"What is the projected GGR uplift for Kangwon Land resulting from the 20-table and 2-hour daily operational expansion, considering pre-COVID player visitation patterns?"},{"label":"Regulatory Precedent","query":"Does this regulatory decision by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism set a precedent for future operational capacity adjustments for other licensed gaming entities in South Korea?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,161,16338,158],"tags":[29,16471,152],"class_list":["post-6559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casino-news","category-daily-news","category-east-asia-news","category-slider-home","tag-casino","tag-kangwon-land","tag-south-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6559","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=6559"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777018279,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6559\/revisions\/777018279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}