S.Korea plans major gambling centre
- Published: 31 Oct 2012 at 12.46
- Online news: Asia
South Korea’s Incheon city, where the nation’s busiest airport is located, plans to team up with a group of investors to develop a 317 trillion won (US$290 billion) leisure and gaming destination three times the size of Macau.
The project called 8-City will be located in Yongyu-Muui island district in Incheon and built over 18 years, according to developer Eightcity Co, whose shareholders include luxury hotel operator Kempinski AG, Korean Air Lines Co. and Daewoo Engineering & Construction Co. The development will spread across an 80 square-kilometre (31 square-mile) area, it said in a statement on Wednesday.
The new development, which will include hotels, casinos, performance halls, shopping malls, a marina resort and Formula One racetrack, will help push South Korea up in the ranks of Asia’s top destinations. The project will be built through 2030 and is expected to draw 130 million visitors annually from in the country and overseas markets including China and Japan, the developer said.
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