Casino resorts in Jeju Island, South Korea Jeju Shinhwa World will host the first stop of Triton Poker’s 2019 Super High Roller series in March, the event’s organizers announced. Jeju Shinhwa World is owned and operated by Landing International Development, a casino resort investor. The property, which has a foreigner-only casino (pictured), hosted the Triton…
Month: May 2024
Park Ji-hoon signs FA contract with Jeonggwanjang
Anyang Jeonggwanjang Red Booth Basketball Team (Director Lee Jong-rim) announced on the 13th that it has renewed its contract with Park Ji-hoon, who has become a free agent (FA), with a three-year contract period and 550 million won in compensation for the first year (including 110 million incentives). Jeonggwanjang basketball team started last season second…
Korean basketball player or foreigner Ra Gun-ah’s dilemma
Will Ra Gun-ah continue to be seen in the Korean professional basketball and the Korean national team? As the four-way contract involving the KBL, his team Busan KCC, and the Korea Basketball Association ended recently, basketball fans are paying attention to his future course of action. Ra Gun-ah, from the United States, was named Ricardo…
Asian casino operator Donaco cuts first-half financial loss
Boutique Asia casino operator Donaco International posted a net loss of A$36.8 million ($26.1 million) for the six months ended Dec. 31, 2018 on Thursday, compared with a net loss of A$133.8 million a year earlier. In a filing with the Australian Stock Exchange, the casino company blamed the net loss on impairment costs related…
Lotte Tour Jeju Casino Resort is completed
The organizer of Jeju Dream Tower, a new resort with foreigner-only casinos under construction in the Korean resort of Jeju, changed his words when explaining the progress of the project. “At this stage, we are trying to complete construction by the end of 2019,” Lawrence Theo, vice president and chief operating officer of Lotte Tour…
Hwang Young-mook’s basic skills, baseball habits, and earnestness
Baseball is a game of habit. There are basic rules such as out count, runner position, and score difference, which must be followed as a habit in each situation. Every such play brings together to make the team solid. A noticeable scene came out in the Kiwoom-Hanwha match held in Daejeon on the 10th. After…
Lee Jung-hoo, the grandson of a dislocated shoulder
Summary View Listen with Voice Translation Settings Adjust the font size Print Lee Jung-hoo (25, San Francisco Giants), the grandson of the wind, collided with the fence while defending and injured his left shoulder. If the injury, which was initially known as a minor shoulder sprain, is diagnosed with a dislocated injury, he could be…
Darvish Yu has won 198 career games in the US and Japan.
San Diego Padres Japanese starter Darvish Yu has won 198 career games in the United States and Japan. Darvish pitched five innings of one-hit ball with three walks and five strikeouts against the Chicago Cubs in the 2024 Major League Baseball World Series at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois, on Sunday (July 7). The score…
Alec Manoa has been rocked in his first start of the season
Alec Manoa, known to Korean fans as “Korean Monster” Ryu Hyun-jin’s (Hanwha Eagles) former teammate with the Toronto Blue Jays, has been rocked in his first start of the season. Manoah, who was expected to be the best pitcher in the American League Cy Young Award voting with a 16-7 record and a 2.24 ERA…
Ohtani has been named Player of the Week
Major League Baseball (MLB) superstar Shohei Ohtani, 30, of the Los Angeles Dodgers, has been named Player of the Week for the eighth time in his career. Ohtani and Brent Rooker (Oakland Athletics) were named the National League (NL) and American League (AL) Player of the Week, respectively, MLB.com announced on Sunday. In five games…