{"id":777004842,"date":"2023-05-03T13:49:55","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T16:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777004842"},"modified":"2026-04-22T22:20:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T01:20:44","slug":"grand-korea-leisure-casino-sales-up-689-9-in-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/grand-korea-leisure-casino-sales-up-689-9-in-april","title":{"rendered":"Grand Korea Leisure casino sales up 689.9% in April"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Grand Korea Leisure Co casino sales reached KRW45.61bn (US$34m).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>South Korea.-&nbsp;<strong>Grand Korea Leisure (GKL)&nbsp;<\/strong>has reported that casino sales grew 689.9 per cent&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/grand-korea-leisure-casino-sales-down-80-6-in-april\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">year-on-year<\/a>&nbsp;in April, to KRW45.61bn (US$34m). Sales were up 17.9 per cent from&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/grand-korea-leisure-casino-sales-up-30-2-in-march\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">March<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Table-game sales were up 1,027.2 per cent in year-on-year terms to KRW42.22bn (US$31m). The figure was up 18 per cent when compared to the previous month. Machine-game sales rose 66.8 per cent year-on-year and 15.8 per cent month-on-month to KRW3.38bn (US$2.5m).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the first four months of 2023,&nbsp;GKL saw <strong>KRW153.16bn<\/strong> (US$114.3m) in casino sales, up 194.2 per cent&nbsp;when compared to last year. GKL\u2019s casino table drop for the first four months reached KRW1.05tn (US$784m), a rise of 166.8 per cent year-on-year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company&#8217;s casino table drop in April was close to KRW296.3bn (US$221m), an improvement of 9 per cent over the previous month and 182.1 per cent over last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grand Korea Leisure Co casino sales reached KRW45.61bn (US$34m).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":13027,"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 substantial year-on-year growth in casino sales for April and the first four months of 2023, with April sales reaching KRW45.61bn (US$34m), a 689.9% increase. Table-game sales were the primary driver, showing over 1,000% YoY growth, while total casino table drop for the first four months exceeded KRW1tn.","focusai_entities":"Grand Korea Leisure, GKL","focusai_location":"South Korea","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.75), operator_casino (0.9), investor_analyst (0.98), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GKL Growth Drivers?","query":"What specific market conditions or operational strategies contributed to Grand Korea Leisure's exceptional year-on-year GGR and table drop growth, particularly in table games?"},{"label":"Sustainability of Growth?","query":"Given the significant percentage increases, what is the projected sustainability of GKL's growth trajectory, and what are the key risks or opportunities for maintaining this momentum in subsequent quarters?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,163],"tags":[17025],"class_list":["post-777004842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-asia-news","category-finance-news","tag-grand-korea-leisure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777004842","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=777004842"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777004842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777004870,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777004842\/revisions\/777004870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777004842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777004842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777004842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}