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Chow Tai Fook boss eyes Incheon casino

Nov 20, 2014 Newsdesk Latest News, Rest of Asia, Top of the deck  


Chow Tai Fook boss eyes Incheon casino

Chow Tai Fook Enterprises Ltd on November 16 signed a letter of intent to invest US$1.6 billion to create a new South Korean casino resort at Incheon, near the country’s capital Seoul, reports the Korea Herald newspaper.

The agreement was with Incheon City Mayor Yoo Jeong-bok for a property at Yeongjong Island in the Incheon Free Economic Zone. The area has attracted investment interest from several international casino brands, including U.S.-based Caesars Entertainment Corp.

Chow Tai Fook Enterprises is a privately held firm founded by Cheng Yu Tung (pictured), for many years an investor in Sociedade de Turismo e Diversões de Macau SA, the parent of Macau casino operator SJM Holdings Ltd.

Chow Tai Fook Enterprises is one of the leading conglomerates in Hong Kong, boasting a diversified business portfolio that includes property developer New World Development Co Ltd and Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Group Ltd.

Mr Cheng’s family also controls International Entertainment Corp, a Hong Kong-listed company that earlier this year announced it was interested in buying a 70-percent economic interest in Macau junket investor Suncity International Holdings Ltd.

“Incheon City and the Incheon Free Economic Zone will fully support Chow Tai Fook Enterprises to make a final investment decision in cooperation with the central government,” the Korea Herald quoted Lee Yoo-hyung of the free economic zone saying.

This is not the first casino project that Mr Cheng, 89, has pursued overseas. Chow Tai Fook Enterprises is also involved in a bid to develop a casino resort in Brisbane, the capital of the Australian state of Queensland.

Australia’s Echo Entertainment Group Ltd said in a filing in June it had signed a binding memorandum of understanding with Chow Tai Fook Enterprises for the Queen’s Wharf Brisbane area.

In South Korea’s Yeongjong, Chow Tai Fook Enterprises will face competition for casino customers from local and international operators.

Paradise Co Ltd – currently South Korea’s biggest casino operator with five properties – expects to break ground on its Incheon project this month, according to an October note from investment bank Daiwa Capital Markets.

The firm is partnering with Japan’s Sega Sammy Holdings Inc for a US$1.7-billion scheme on Yeongjong. The development, called Paradise City, is scheduled to open in 2017.

Management at Las Vegas-based Caesars said earlier this year the firm was working to open its casino project in Incheon before the 2018 Winter Olympics. Pyeongchang, in South Korea’s Kangwon province, will host the Olympic Winter Games from February 9 to 25, 2018.

Caesars is one of the partners in what is a multi-phase casino project for Yeongjong, near the South Korean capital Seoul and its Incheon International Airport.

The reason “why casino developers, both foreign and domestic, are turning to Yeongjong is [because of] the rising number of Chinese visitors who have strong purchasing power,” said Mr Lee of the free economic zone, according to the Korea Herald.

The aggregate number of Chinese tourists to South Korea reached 4.7 million in the nine months to September 30, up by about 50 percent from a year earlier, according to data from the Korea Tourism Organisation cited by the newspaper.

Casinos on Yeongjong however will be for foreigners only. South Korea bars its citizens from gambling in casinos except at Kangwon Land, a difficult-to-access location 150 kilometres (93 miles) southeast of Seoul in Kangwon Province.

A recent report from Standard Chartered Equity Research said that the South Korean government’s master plan for new international-standard casino resorts is likely to include up to three more licences for Yeongjong. The casino industry has anticipated the master plan will be published by the end of this year.


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