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Over the past 20 years, three con artists have deceived people by claiming to be descendants of the same chaebol family. They promised to marry an actor, registered their marriage with a painter, and became the lover of a national athlete. And all three times, the same group name was mentioned: Paradise. With dozens of chaebol families in this country, why did these con artists choose this particular group? Following the answer reveals the entire 60-year rise and fall of an empire that rose from the nation's first casino in 1967 to become the country's first major corporate group. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📊 Key Numbers Covered in This Video ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ · Korea's First Foreigner-Only Casino — August 1, 1967, Olympus Hotel, Incheon (Pressian) · 1992 Reported Revenue of 103.4 Billion Won, More Than Half of the Domestic Total of Approximately 200 Billion Won (1993, 'Emperor of the Night') · Founder's 3 Years and 3 Months of Fleeing Abroad — From Departure to Hawaii in May 1993 to Surrender in 1996 (The Korea Economic Daily) · 1997 1st Trial: 5 Years Imprisonment & 16.1 Billion Won Fine → 2nd Trial: 3 Years Imprisonment & 5 Years Probation, August 15 Amnesty, 1998 · Market Share Plummets Due to Competition from Seven Luck — 2006: 65.7% → 2007 46.2% (Special Economy) · Paradise City investment of approximately 1.3 trillion won — Korea and Northeast Asia's first integrated resort in 2017 (The Bell) · Direct hit by THAAD — Chinese visitors to Korea plummeted 48.3% from 8.068 million (2016) to 4.169 million (2017) (SBS) · Cumulative operating loss of 141.4 billion won over 2 years of COVID-19 — 86.2 billion won in 2020 and 55.2 billion won in 2021 (The Bell) · Consolidated revenue of listed companies in 2023 at 994.2 billion won, a 69.2% increase year-on-year, marking a record high since company founding (Money Today) · Designated as a large business group by the Fair Trade Commission in May 2024 — Fair assets of approximately 5.011 trillion won, ranked 88th in the business world, first casino group (The Bell · KDI) · Revenue of 1 trillion won in 2025 149.9 billion KRW · Operating Profit 156.4 billion KRW, Both All-Time Highs (EToday) · Triple Impersonation Hit — Jeon Cheong-jo: 27 Victims, 3.078 Billion KRW, 13 Years in Prison (Confirmed in 2024); Wang Jin-jin: 6 Years in Prison (Confirmed in 2022) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📁 Major Sources ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ · Hankook Ilbo (June 10, 1993) — Report on Jeon Rak-won's Life, 'Emperor of the Night' · '1 Trillion KRW in Assets' · Pressian (Serialized June–July 2017) — Olympus, Korea's First Casino, Recruitment of Walkerhill, Overseas Expansion to Genting and Kenya · The Korea Economic Daily (August 30, 1996 / Feb. 25, 1997) — Secret Return · Surrender, First Trial Sentence to Prison · MBC Newsdesk (Dec. 18, 1997) — 2nd trial: 3 years imprisonment, suspended for 5 years · Seoul Economic Daily (Nov. 2004) — Founder passes away; 2002 KOSDAQ listing cited as justification for 'dispelling image' · Kyunghyang Shinmun (Dec. 13, 2006) — Second daughter Jeon Ji-hye files lawsuit for division of inherited property · Newsis (April 11, 2017 / Oct. 26, 2023) — Paradise City opening; official statement from group impersonating Jeon Cheong-jo · The Bell (2020 / 2022 / May 14, 2024) — Seven Luck competition, COVID-19 asset securitization, designation as a large corporate group · Money Today (Feb. 15, 2024) — 2023 record-breaking performance (994.2 billion KRW) · Hankook Ilbo (Nov. 21, 2024) — Jeon Cheong-jo merger, prison sentence 13 years · Asia Business Daily (Jan. 9, 2026) — 2025 Foreigner Casino Market, Inspire Chasing · E-Today (Feb. 11, 2026) — Announcement of Record-Breaking Earnings in 2025 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ℹ Notice ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ This video is a documentary on the rise and fall of companies based on publicly available reports, disclosures, and court rulings, and is not intended to defame any specific company or individual. All content regarding "illegitimate children" appearing in the video consists of false claims put forward by fraudsters; Paradise Group has officially denied these allegations as untrue and has taken legal action regarding the matter. Wang Jin-jin and Jeon Cheong-jo, who impersonated the group, have been convicted and sentenced to 6 and 13 years in prison, respectively. Casinos are facilities exclusively for foreigners, and this video is not intended to promote the gambling industry. We do not recommend buying or selling specific stocks, and investment decisions are the viewer's own responsibility.