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Why is Kangwon Land the only casino Koreans can enter?
Article 11 of Korea's 1995 abandoned-mine-areas act lifts one casino out of the foreigner-only rule. The statute and its 2025 sunset, read 18 October 2026.
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South Korea foreigner-only casino license requirements
Who grants a Korean foreigner-only casino licence, the statute behind it, how the NGCC sales ceiling treats it, and the Inspire permission KED reported.
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What Japan's regulator says still has to happen before a casino can open
Japan's casino regime, read off the Japan Casino Regulatory Commission's own pages rather than trade-press paraphrase — and where an approved area plan and a filed supplier application actually sit in it.
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PAGCOR holds the online licence count at 48 and rules out new entrants
The March 2024 freeze on new e-gaming licences stays until the sector consolidates, the chairman says. The register is down to 48 from 74, the rates are set at 30 and 25 percent, and the 2026 GGR estimate sits below last year's print.
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PAGCOR's decoupling plan, assessed
The Philippine regulator wants out of the casino business, with the Casino Filipino estate valued by its own chairman at PHP30bn to PHP50bn. An assessment of what a referee gains, and gives up, by selling the team.
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South Korea eyes casino tourism levy hike to 15% of revenue
A proposal reported in July would lift operators' tourism-fund contribution to 15% of casino revenue — a straight haircut to margins in the foreigner-only segment.