South Korea’s first (and to date only) major integrated resort casino Paradise City is set to grow larger this month as the property opens its second phase.
Paradise City, the joint venture of South Korean casino operator Paradise Co Ltd and Japanese pachinko operator Sega Sammy Holdings, will open its second phase of non-gaming amenities on September 21.
The new features include a shopping plaza, a spa facility complete with infinity pool and ‘aqualoop waterslide,’ a 3k-capacity nightclub (the largest in Northeast Asia, a 58-room boutique hotel, a film and TV production studio, plus an art exhibition hall that will eventually host 2,740 objets d’art. A kid-friendly theme park, Wonder Box, will join these amenities in the first half of 2018.
The $1.4b Paradise City opened its doors in April 2017, but it limped rather than exploded out of the gate, the victim of a diplomatic spat between South Korea and China that caused the latter country to cut off the flow of tourists to South Korea’s Chinese-reliant casinos.