At a special ceremony at the Tioga Downs Casino Resort last week, the Tioga Downs Community Foundation announced the recipients of numerous donations. The event was held on November 29, 2022, with over $1.1 million in grants awarded to a total of 54 nonprofit organizations in different sectors of the region. The recipients of the…
LG Hits Its First 43-Year Professional Baseball Record LG Hits 1.3 Million Spectators at Jamsil Stadium
At the first game of a doubleheader against Doosan held at Jamsil Stadium on Sunday, LG finally had 23,236 spectators. LG’s total number of spectators stood at 1,304,656 in home games in 2024. The record is the highest number of spectators for a team and the highest number of spectators at Jamsil Stadium in a…
Alfastreet Signs Partnership With KGM For U.S. Market
KGM Gaming LLC, a North American-based casino supplier and manufacturer, announced an agreement to become the sole distributor of Alfastreet Gaming Electronic Table Games in the United States. AlphaStreet is a privately held Slovenian manufacturer of electronic gaming products. The deal makes KGM “the U.S. exclusive distributor of Alphastreet’s electronic table game line,” it said…
Macau VIP decline may slow in November, December
Karen Tang, an analyst at Deutsche Bank AG in Hong Kong, predicted the pace of year-on-year declines in Macau VIP game sales could slow in November and December. “For November and December, we expect [VIP] GGR [Total Game Revenue] to see a year-over-year decline (15% to 18% year-over-year) due to slightly easier calculations,” Tang wrote….
Jeju Governor Considers Game Tax Reform
Jeju Governor Won Hee-ryong told local lawmakers that he would push for a revision of the game tax and establish a Singapore-style casino monitoring body, Yonhap News Agency in South Korea reported. Wen said during a parliamentary audit on Thursday that his goal is to improve transparency in the gambling industry and boost the local…
Ohtani, I think he’s trying to do 60-60 Roberts
What’s clear is that I’m not happy with 50-50s. Los Angeles Dodgers Shohei Ohtani added a home run and a stolen base a day after achieving his first major league milestone, reaching 52 home runs and 52 steals for the season. At a home game against the Colorado Rockies at Dodger Stadium on Monday (Korea…
Heo Mimi, Who Won World Championship as a Korean Player
According to her grandmother’s will, Heo Mimi, who won the world championship as a Korean player, said, “It reminded me of my grandmother” Heo Mimi, a Korean resident in Japan, renounces Japanese citizenship and heads to Korea in 2021. Independence activist Heo Seok, 5th-generation descendant of Judo World Championships, wins gold medal, says, “I will…
Xavi Hernández, Rejects Offer to Coach Korean National Team
Spanish media “Barcelona’s Xavi rejects offer to coach Korean national team” Local media reported that Xavi Hernández, who led Spain’s prestigious professional soccer club FC Barcelona, declined the position as head coach of the Korean national soccer team. Spanish sports media Mundo Deportivo reported on the 24th (Korean time), “A few weeks after deciding to…
Son Heung-min is Left Out of this Season in EPL
Son Heung-min is left out of this season’s EPL best 11 selected by Shearer Watkins-Holland at the top two… Left wing striker is ‘Player of the Year’ Foden. Korean soccer star Son Heung-min (Tottenham) was not named in the English Premier League (EPL) season’s best 11 selected by legendary England striker Alan Shearer. On the…
KT Yuk Cheong-myung “I will Become an Exemplary Player”
Both skill and personality are perfect… KT Yuk Cheong-myung “I will become an exemplary player” My father, Yook Sung-cheol, head of the Public Relations and Cooperation Department at the National Human Rights Commission said, “I want to become a player who has a positive influence, just like my father said.” KT Wiz, a professional baseball…