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VendingData Corporation has received a purchase order for ten Deck Checkers to be installed in the Kangwon Land Casino in Kangwon Province, Korea and the Seven Luck Casino in Seoul.

Lee Jong-hee, president of Korean Air, last week told The Korea Times his carrier will launch direct Las Vegas service by year's end.

International News Brief: High rollers and cautious gamblers alike can now try their luck at the South Korea's biggest foreigners-only casino which opened last weekend in Seoul.

International News Brief: Seoul will gain a spacious new casino for foreigners tomorrow when the Grand Korea Corporation opens the first of three gambling halls planned for opening this year.

International News Brief: A growing number of South Korea’s gambling addicts have asked a local casino to deny them entry to the casino in a desperate bid to return to their normal daily lives.

International News Brief: According to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, 13,000 adult arcades, betting rooms equipped with simulated horse racing games or slot machines and offe

International News Brief: A total of 270,190 people have lost 681.5 billion won gambling in a local casino from October 2004 to July this year, an opposition lawmaker claimed Tuesday.

International News Brief: The Korea National Tourism Organization has decided to cancel its provisional contract with Hanmoo Convention Co., an operator of the places which the KNTO will lease to run foreigners-only casinos.

International News Brief: HanGame, Netmarble, Pmang, and Mgame, local Internet sites providing online gambling games, recorded a 234.3 billion won revenue last year, from a mere 82.4 billion won in 2002.

International News Brief: Sheldon Adelson has expressed an interest in investing in a plan by the South Jeolla provincial government, dubbed the "J-Project," to build South Korea's largest leisure complex.

International News Brief: South Korea is betting on a new $120 million casino project to lure more Chinese gamblers to a market that has traditionally focused on Japanese high-rollers.

International News Brief: A foreigners-only casino to be operated by the state-run tourism agency will open in southern Seoul at the end of this year, according to Choi Jae-geun, vice-president of the Korea National Tourism Organization.

International News Brief: Koreans will be prohibited from using credit cards in overseas casinos from next week, the Financial Supervisory Service said.

International News Brief: South Korean investigators have uncovered a group of eight swindlers who allegedly tricked two people out of about 1 billion won during an illegal casino game.

International News Brief: South Korean investigators have uncovered a group of eight swindlers who allegedly tricked two people out of about 1 billion won during an illegal casino game.

International News Brief: The South Korean tourism agency on has selected three additional casinos for foreigners, two in Seoul and one in the southeastern port city of Pusan.

International News Brief: Chun Rak-won, the founder and chairman of South Korea's biggest casino chain Paradise Group passed away Wednesday morning at the age of 77 from a chronic illness.

International News Brief: South Korea has granted new licences to two new operators, one in the capital Seoul and the other in the southern city of Busan.

International News Brief: Searching for new growth industries, Korea is taking bets on casinos - and Las Vegas is looking.

MGM Mirage officials are denying news reports that the company is part of a team of U.S. investors that has signed or is about to sign a deal to build a "leisure complex" west of the South Korean capital.