{"id":25250,"date":"2021-12-07T07:41:43","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T10:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=25250"},"modified":"2026-04-23T13:11:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T16:11:26","slug":"grand-korea-leisure-revenue-down-55-9-in-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/grand-korea-leisure-revenue-down-55-9-in-november","title":{"rendered":"Grand Korea Leisure revenue down 55.9% in November"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Grand Korea Leisure (GKL) has reported a 55.9 per cent decline in revenue month-on-month, to KRW4.1bn (US$3.5m).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>South Korea.- The South Korean operator of foreigner-only casinos\u00a0<strong>Grand Korea Leisure (GKL)<\/strong>\u00a0has reported that revenue was down 55.9 per cent in November when compared to\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/grand-korea-leisure-casino-sales-down-1-5-in-october\">the previous month<\/a>. The figure was also down 25.4 per cent year-on-year. Revenue mainly came from its Seoul Hilton Casino, which generated KRW5bn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Busan Lotte Casino reported KRW687,000 in revenue in November. The Seoul Gangnam Casino recorded a loss of KRW1.5bn mainly due to a loss registered in table games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall\u00a0<strong>table games revenue\u00a0<\/strong>was down 68.1 per cent month-on-month, from KRW7.67bn to KRW2.45bn, and down 40.1 per cent year-on-year.\u00a0<strong>Machine game sales were up 2.5 per cent<\/strong>\u00a0month-on-month from KRW1.60bn to KRW1.64bn, and up 17.5 per cent year-on-year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GKL has registered KRW79.45bn in casino sales for the first eleven months of the year, down 57.3 per cent year-on-year.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s previously been reported that <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/south-korean-casinos-get-grace-period-on-payment-of-tourism-fees\">some casinos in South Korea<\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>have been allowed to delay the payment of some Tourism Promotion and Development Fund fees until June 2022 due to the difficulties the industry continues to face due to the Covid-19 pandemic.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grand Korea Leisure (GKL) has reported a 55.9 per cent decline in revenue month-on-month, to KRW4.1bn (US$3.5m).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":25298,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Grand Korea Leisure (GKL) reported a significant 55.9% month-on-month and 25.4% year-on-year decline in November revenue, primarily driven by underperformance in table games at its Seoul Gangnam Casino. Despite a slight increase in machine game sales, overall casino sales for the first eleven months of the year remain substantially down by 57.3% year-on-year. Regulatory relief, including deferred Tourism Promotion and Development Fund fees, has been extended to support the struggling South Korean foreigner-only casino sector.","focusai_entities":"Grand Korea Leisure (GKL), Seoul Hilton Casino, Busan Lotte Casino, Seoul Gangnam Casino","focusai_location":"South Korea, Seoul, Busan","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.8), compliance_legal (0.7), operator_casino (0.9), marketing_crm (0.7), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GKL Revenue Mitigation Strategy?","query":"What is GKL's strategy for mitigating the continued decline in table game revenue and attracting foreign patrons amidst ongoing travel restrictions?"},{"label":"Fund Fee Impact on GKL?","query":"How do the deferred Tourism Promotion and Development Fund fees impact GKL's short-term liquidity and long-term capital expenditure plans?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[492,17025],"class_list":["post-25250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-gkl","tag-grand-korea-leisure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25250"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25261,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25250\/revisions\/25261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}