Grand Korea Leisure Co\u2019s casino sales were down 0.2 per cent month-on-month at KRW33.32bn (US$24.61m).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
South Korea.-\u00a0Grand Korea Leisure (GKL)<\/strong>\u00a0has shared its financial results for the month of September. Casinos sales rose 31.4 per cent year-on-year to KRW33.32bn (US$24.61m). This was a drop of a 0.2 per cent month-on-month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Table-game sales amounted to approximately KRW30.12bn (US$22.26m), also reflecting a dip of 0.2 per cent from the preceding month but up 33.5 per cent on year-on-year terms. Machine-game sales reached KRW3.20bn (US$2.37m), again down 0.2 per cent month-on-month but up 14.8 per cent from last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For the\u00a0first nine months\u00a0<\/strong>of the year, Grand Korea Leisure has reported casino sales of KRW305.87bn (US$226.40m), a rise of 86.4 per cent compared to the same period last year. GKL operates\u00a0three foreigner-only casinos\u00a0<\/strong>under the Seven Luck brand. Two are situated in the capital, Seoul (including one in Gangnam), and the other in the southeastern port city of Busan.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n The company operates as a subsidiary of the Korea Tourism Organization, which is affiliated with the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Grand Korea Leisure Co\u2019s casino sales were down 0.2 per cent month-on-month at KRW33.32bn (US$24.61m).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":15942,"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 September casino sales of KRW33.32bn (US$24.61m), marking a 0.2% month-on-month decline but a robust 31.4% year-on-year increase. This performance, driven primarily by table-game revenue, contributes to a significant 86.4% year-on-year growth in casino sales for the first nine months, underscoring a strong recovery trajectory for the foreigner-only operator.","focusai_entities":"Grand Korea Leisure Co, GKL, Korea Tourism Organization, Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism, Seven Luck","focusai_location":"South Korea, Seoul, Busan, Gangnam","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (0.9), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GKL Q4 Outlook","query":"Given the slight month-on-month decline in September despite strong year-on-year growth, what are the key operational or market factors GKL anticipates will influence Q4 GGR performance and overall profitability?"},{"label":"Foreigner-Only Market Drivers","query":"What specific inbound tourism trends or VIP segment dynamics are driving the significant year-on-year GGR recovery for GKL's foreigner-only casinos, and how sustainable are these drivers?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,163],"tags":[17025],"class_list":["post-777009904","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\/777009904","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=777009904"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777009904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777041199,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777009904\/revisions\/777041199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777009904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777009904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777009904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}