Kangwon Land, the only casino resort in the country to allow locals to bet, allowed casino floors to double their maximum guest capacity from 10 a.m. local time today, but the new limit is still less than 50% of pre-pandemic levels.
Moving from 20% of normal capacity to 2,300 or 38% of normal capacity will depend on the redesign of local COVID-19 alert levels and will take place from Monday (14 June).
Kangwon Land Resort (pictured), run by Kangwon Land Inc., listed on the Korea Exchange, is located in a remote alpine area outside the Korean capital of Seoul.
An official in Jeongseon County, where Kangwon Land is located, confirmed Friday that casino capacity had increased after receiving a phone inquiry from GGRA.
The county’s proposal to increase capacity came on Thursday. The move coincided with renaming so-called social distancing protocols as part of a national initiative.
As a result, all other intermediate standards between the old “level 1.5” standard and the old “level 1” to the old “level 3” are being abolished. A new system from “level 1” to “level 4” will take its place.
Most of Gangwon-do, including Jeongseon-gun, where Gangwon Land is located, is designated as the first stage under the revised system.
It was not clear from the information available whether a reset of the alert level meant that the public’s safety risk had actually decreased.
Kangwon Land posted a net loss of 40.9 billion won ($36.7 million) in the first quarter of 2021, compared with a net loss of 156.1 billion won a year earlier.
According to Jeongseon-gun’s website, there were 55 COVID-19 infections in Jeongseon-gun as of 9 a.m. on Friday after the crisis last year, and no deaths were reported.
As of 12 a.m. on Monday, South Korea recorded 374 new COVID-19 cases in 24 hours. The number of confirmed cases in South Korea stood at 148,647, including 1,992 deaths, according to data from the Ministry of Health and Welfare.
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