Inside Asian Gaming

IAG DEC 2022年12月 亞博匯 103 菲律賓 Han eventually returned home after three years in the US when his mother, Kil Sun Kim, suffered a stroke, but his determination to succeed hadn’t waned. And it was his 2005 trip to Clark that ultimately cemented his fate. “My first few trips to Clark were as a tourist,” he explains. “I would drive around and walk around – I’d heard about Clark airport – and I tried to analyze whether this was the right place for me to look at this business opportunity. “There were a few reasons why it felt right to me. One was distance – travelling from Korea to the Philippines is one of the shortest trips in Southeast Asia, and while Korea has four seasons the Philippines is seen [by Koreans] as very exotic. “I also knew that, because Clark is a Special Economic Zone, there was only one entity I needed to negotiate with. Outside of Clark I would need to talk to several government entities, which is quite difficult. “But the main one was that I had an edge over everyone else because I'm a Korean who speaks English. I was raised in the ultra-competitive environment of Korea, which gave me an edge over Filipino businessmen who are raised in a different way, and I spoke English as opposed to other Koreans. So by combining my Korean competitiveness and blending it with the business culture here, I knew I was going to be something different.” It was on this basis that Han established his first hotel, which opened as Widus in 2008, then obtained a casino license that saw him install a modest 24 gaming tables and 150 slot machines in 2009. He later expanded this to 67 tables and 370 slots before embarking on the far more “I’m willing to sacrifice whatever I need to right now to improve my future. That’s just the way I was raised and that’s my perspective.” – Daesik Han 「我願意犧牲我現在的一切來追求我的未 來。這就是我的成長方式，這就是我的想 法。」 – Daesik Han 菲律賓商人更有優勢，而與其他韓國人 不同的是，我又可以說英語。因此，結 合我的韓國競爭力和當地的商業文化， 我知道自己終將與眾不同。」 正是在此基礎上，Han打造了他的 第一家酒店，該酒店於2008年在Widus 開業。隨後他於2009年獲得賭牌，並在 當年安裝了24張賭枱及150台角子機。 後來，規模擴展到67張賭枱及370 台角子機。之後進行了更為重要的升 級，並更名為Hann Casino Resort。 升級後的豪華酒店於2021年12月開業， 擁有154張賭枱及868台角子機，以及 一個擁有260間酒店客房的萬豪酒店 （CLARK MARRIOTT），此外還包括