Grand Korea Leisure Co Ltd (GKL), an operator in South Korea of foreigner-only casinos, reopened its Seven Luck-branded Gangnam COEX (pictured), and Gangbuk Hilton gaming venue in Seoul at 9am of Monday, according to an online corporate announcement.
The reopenings came shortly after the country’s Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters’ announcement on March 12, that it would continue maintaining “Level 2” of social-distancing measures until midnight on March 28. But the body added it would allow as an “exceptional measure”, what it termed “public” casinos to reopen on the condition they operated at only 20 percent of normal capacity.
The announcement explained that the measure was to put the public-sector casinos on equal footing with operations of “private” casinos, where decisions on whether or not to close on Covid-19 safety grounds were discretionary.