One home run away from joining the ’30-30′ club. Kim Do-young (21-KIA Tigers) has regained his confidence. In 109 games this season, Kim is batting .346 with 29 home runs and 33 doubles. After consistently posting monthly batting averages in excess of .300 since April, Kim is batting .258 in nine games in August. He…
The NC Dinos are currently playing without their Captain
The NC Dinos of the Korean Baseball Organization (KBO) are currently playing without their cha, po, ma, and prize. Captain Son As-seob suffered a cruciate ligament injury in his knee at the start of the second half, and Park Gun-woo fractured his wrist after being hit by a sand dune during a game. In addition,…
GKL’s June sales up by 17pct m-o-m to circa US$23mln
Casino sales at Grand Korea Leisure Inc. (GKL), which operates foreigner-only casinos in South Korea, rose 16.7 percent on-month to about 29.55 billion won in June, according to data submitted to the Korea Exchange on Monday. The latest monthly tally rose 20.8 percent year-on-year. During the month of June, table game sales rose 21.4 percent…
Kangwon Land’s recovery is quite slow: intermediary
Securities firm JPMorgan Securities (Asia Pacific) said casino firm Kangwon Land’s earnings normalisation “shows no signs of a turnaround” and appeared unlikely more than a year after it resumed following restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Kangwon Land Inc. is a promoter of Kangwon Land (pictured), the only Korean casino resort that allows Koreans to…
Hitting Ahn Se-young getting stronger
The offensive against Ahn Se-young, a gold medalist at the Paris Olympics, who revealed the absurdity of the Badminton Association, is intensifying. Recently, even Na Soo-hyun, a commentator for MBC, a former member of the national badminton team, pointed out Ahn’s “politeness” and seems to be leaning toward the association. Commentator Bang said in an…
Donaco Q6 EBITDA Down 41pct, VIP Win Rate Low
Casino operator Donaco International reported a 41.0% drop in group quarterly earnings before interest, taxation, depreciation and amortization in the three months to June 30, compared with the previous quarter. GROUP EBITDA IN THE LATEST REPORTING PERIOD WAS A$2.4 MILLION ($1.61 million) VS A$4.07 MILLION IN THE THREE TIMES ended March 31. Donaco’s group net…
China Body Blocks $277M ‘Gambling Payment’ In 2022
In 2022, the China Payments and Settlements Association said in its annual report submitted online on Thursday that it had helped its member organization block payments worth nearly 2 billion yuan ($277 million) that were known to be for gambling activities. It did not specify the type of gambling activity involved. The society is described…
Vietnam Plans Casino ‘Regular’ Checks: Report
Vietnam’s finance ministry has proposed “regular checks” on its casinos, citing locations across seven provinces and cities, local media VnExpress reported, citing a government announcement. The report did not comment on the scope of such inspection work. However, VnExpress noted that the ministry recently found cases of “multiple casinos” serving “unauthorized customers” and offered “unacceptable…
I want to stop playing in the 2nd Army. I decided to transfer after 8 years
Nico Paz is considering leaving Real Madrid. Madrid Extra, which delivers the news of Real, quoted European transfer market expert Fabrizio Romano on the 12th (Korea time) and said, “Fars is considering leaving Real.” Born in 2004, Argentine midfielder Pas is the second-tier resource that Real expects. After joining Real Youth in 2016 after playing…
German court upholds plan to shrink parliament
Germany’s highest court on Tuesday largely approved plans to shrink the country’s parliament, despite objections from smaller parties who say the reform is unfair to them. The conservative CSU and far-left Die Linke had appealed to the constitutional court in Karlsruhe about the changes, passed by the Bundestag lower house in March 2023. But in…