while initially doing an internet search:

"Once upon a time (2005 or so) North Korea had a casino operation situated very, very close to China. China does not permit gaming (except Macao, a former Portugeise holding), but there seems to be plenty of illegal operations throughout China. Anyway, Chinese residents regularly took tours to the Emperor Casino until a Chinese Transportation Official was found to be using (and losing) public funds to the tune of over $400K. Chinese officials banned further tours. Since North Koreans were not allowed to use the casino and their 100% Chinese patronage suddenly evaporated the casino closed.

Those could be chips from there. OR, there is an on-line gaming site called Emperor. Perhaps those are advertising chips.

I suspect the former."

The owner of the chip advises that he got them from Spinetti's (Mike Spinetti's website) awhile back. He also has other denominations.

Because the chip only includes a casino name (no location) I was wondering if it was a fantasy chip. It is quite possible that it is/was a a real chip from that casino operation in North Korea.

Anyone else have any ideas? Anyone else have one? The owner does not have other denoms.

Jim