Kangwon Land, South Korea’s largest casino located in Gangwon province, recently finished deployment of Spielo International’s Galaxis casino systems solutions on all of its 960 slot machines.
Among the modules selected by Kangwon Land was Galaxis Jackpots, which is used to centrally manage 153 different levels of progressive and mystery jackpots on 18 jackpot links, and there are 80 stand-alone jackpots.
“In many cases customers use a management system, but still need an external controller to run the jackpot. Our system can manage all jackpot activity, which in the end simplifies the IT requirement and saves the customer money,” said Chiang Lai Fatt, Spielo International’s Asia Pacific general manager. “This project also highlighted our system’s reliability in handling high levels of player traffic; at Kangwon Land there are more than 150,000 system transactions every hour.”
Kangwon Land is the busiest casino in the country and it is the only one that allows the admission of Koreans, as all others are exclusively for visitors. It is so busy that there are queues at the slot machines, which boast 95 per cent occupancy. This made the slot system migration a challenge, as most of the slots are being played at any given time.
“We are extremely happy and satisfied with Spielo International, their casino systems products and also all of their staff that we dealt with,” said Ju Haejung, senior manager, system management department at Kangwon Land. “The whole migration was so smooth that it hardly affected our daily business.”
Spielo International is committed to the Asian gaming market and its casino systems division increased its market penetration by nearly 300 per cent in 2012.
Pictured is the Kwong Land IT team, from left to right: Seonuk Choi, assistant manager, Haejung Ju, senior manager, Do Hwan Kim, manager, and Namgyun Kim, assistant manager.
