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The island wants to depend less on Chinese tourists and focus more on Japan, Taiwan and the South Asian market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

South Korea.- Ko Byoung Hun<\/strong>, assistant director of the Casino Policy Division for Jeju Special Self-Governing Province, has told GGRAsia that authorities aim to diversify the island’s sources. Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, China was the main source marker. Ko says the focus is now on Japan, Taiwan and the South Asian market .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ko said the island was using marketing and junket promotion aimed at these markets in the short term. He said: \u201cWe are especially paying attention to Japan\u2019s rich baby boomers\u201d. He suggested the island could no expect as many tourists from China as pre-pandemic due to the government’s pressure on gambling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are eight foreigner-only casinos on Jeju, some of which are still closed for a variety of reasons. In September, the local government had asked all casinos to reopen by autumn<\/a> unless they could justify a decision not to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On a bill that could allow proxy betting via live-casino floors<\/a> in South Korea, Ko said: \u201cAs we have been recognising anti-casino sentiment during the bill\u2019s discussion, we are just watching the situation currently.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See also: <\/strong>Jeju Dream Tower gross gaming revenue down 17.6% in Q3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The island wants to depend less on Chinese tourists and focus more on Japan, Taiwan and the South Asian market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":19350,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Jeju Special Self-Governing Province is strategically diversifying its casino tourism market, shifting focus from China to Japan, Taiwan, and South Asia, particularly targeting affluent Japanese baby boomers. This move is driven by reduced Chinese tourism due to government pressure on gambling. Concurrently, the local government is mandating the reopening of all foreigner-only casinos and cautiously observing the legislative progress of a proxy betting bill amidst anti-casino sentiment.","focusai_entities":"Ko Byoung Hun, GGRAsia, Jeju Special Self-Governing Province, Jeju Dream Tower","focusai_location":"Jeju, South Korea, China, Japan, Taiwan, South Asia","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.98), compliance_legal (0.75), operator_casino (0.97), marketing_crm (0.9), investor_analyst (0.93), supplier_vendor (0.78), journalist_researcher (0.96)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Jeju Marketing Strategy?","query":"What specific marketing channels and incentive programs are being developed to attract high-net-worth individuals from Japan, Taiwan, and South Asia to Jeju's foreigner-only casinos?"},{"label":"Casino Reopening Enforcement?","query":"What are the regulatory mechanisms and potential penalties the Jeju government will employ to enforce the reopening mandate for the remaining closed foreigner-only casinos, and what are the implications for their operational licenses?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23766,23907],"class_list":["post-777000665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-jeju-island","tag-land-based-casino"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777000665","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=777000665"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777000665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777000691,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777000665\/revisions\/777000691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777000665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777000665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777000665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}