The top-ranked Kia Tigers rode a complete-game shutout from their homegrown pitchers to a thrilling victory. The Tigers used six different pitchers to hold the KT Wiz to a single run in a 2-0 victory in the 2024 Shinhan SOL Bank KBO League at Kia Champions Field in Gwangju on Saturday. With the victory, leader…
Month: August 2024
Kim Won-joong’s inner thoughts on rising above adversity
“Now it’s just a matter of climbing” “I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t hard…but I threw harder.” Busan’s ‘long-haired finisher’ finally emerged from the long darkness. A teammate’s ‘super catch’ brought him out of the nightmare. The Lotte Giants won a hard-fought 6-5, one-run victory in the first game of the midweek series…
‘Yubin Shin reaches third straight quarterfinal,’ women’s table tennis sweeps Sweden
South Korea’s women’s table tennis team has reached the semifinals of the team event at the Summer Olympics for the first time in 12 years. The team can now challenge for a medal in the event, which has been dormant since Beijing 2008. The South Korean women’s table tennis team of Shin Yoo-bin, Lee Eun-hye…
Pollard Bills Announces Q1 Earnings
This week, Pollard Banknote Limited, a leader in lottery products and solutions, released its financial report for the quarter ended March 31, 2023. Along with many other highlights, the company reported revenue of C$124.6 million in the first quarter of this year, 9.4% more than C$113.9 million year-over-year. Based in Manitoba, Canada, Pollard Banknote is…
Fortune Coin Expands Gaming Partnership
Fortune Coins is a relatively new social casino brand, but the company continues to expand rapidly as it has announced a new and exciting partnership. This week, the leading North American brand said it has partnered with Booming Games, a major casino game supplier. Now, the partnership will further strengthen social casino services for many…
Tax saving of 134.1 billion won is possible
Shohei Ohtani (30, Los Angeles Dodgers) was hurt by the betrayal of a trusted interpreter. This time, taxes are a problem. The “Otani Act” is expected to be enacted in the U.S. The U.S. The Athletic reported on the 11th that a U.S. senator from California submitted a bill to Congress regarding Ohtani’s tax issues….
Macau July GGR unexpected $2.4 billion in August
Investment analysts described Macau’s July casino gross gaming revenue (GGR) as “weak” against market expectations, as daily utilization rates likely slowed at the end of the month. Macau’s casino GGR rose 5.1% month-on-month to MOP18.6 billion ($2.31 billion) in July, the Game Inspection Coordination Bureau, a local regulator, said on Thursday. Deutsche Bank Securities’ Carlo…
Pachinko Operators Plan Smartphone Games
A company that said it planned to open a Pachinko laboratory in Salt Lake City, Utah, in July announced on Tuesday that it had asked its software provider to build digital Pachinko games for smartphones and tablets. CMK Gaming International Inc (CMKI) is working with Route 1 Games, a UK-based game development and publisher. According…
Macau Casino Excludes Autonomous, Up 54% In Q2
The number of people applying for the Macau government’s voluntary casino self-exclusion program jumped 54% in the second quarter of 2014 compared to the previous three months. A total of 77 people applied for voluntary exclusion between April and June, up from 50 in the first quarter, according to data from the Seoul Metropolitan Office…
I watched Inni Media’s Ahn Se-young and “Desperate Tunjung”, 1 game was good
Ahn Se-young made it to the final at 3:30 p.m. on the 4th (Korea time) by winning the women’s singles semifinal match against Gregoria Maresca Tunjung of Indonesia in the women’s singles match at the 2024 Paris Olympics at Port Draszapel Stadium in France with a game score of 2-1 (11-21 21-13 21-16). Her opponent…