GKL receives award for excellence in management, success in launching mobile game

Grand Korea Leisure headquarters in Seoul / Courtesy of Grand Korea Leisure

Grand Korea Leisure (GKL) received an award from the Korea Association for Public Sector Affairs Analysis & Evaluation (KAPSAAE) for demonstrating excellence in management and successfully launching a new mobile game.

GKL is the public operator of the country’s largest foreigner-only casino Seven Luck under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. The KAPSAAE is also a nonprofit organization that evaluates government agencies in six different categories as part of its annual contest for outstanding policies and management among public sector.

A total of 156 government agencies participated in this year’s contest. Of them, 48 were awarded for excellence in management or policies under the KAPSAAE’s evaluation.

According to GKL, it received this year’s grand award for introducing an education system based on the government-led National Competency Standards and Sectoral Qualifications Framework, launching the educational mobile game Dealing Star and starting another education program for future tourism.

“GKL will continuously do its best to strengthen the education of future generations while introducing various policies to facilitate the country’s tourism,” GKL President Yoon Doo-hyun said in a press release.

In May, a restaurant at Seven Luck also received the highest restaurant hygiene rating from the Korea Food Safety Management Institute, a public hygiene monitoring agency under the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety.