{"id":777029920,"date":"2025-08-05T12:42:49","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T15:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777029920"},"modified":"2026-04-21T20:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T23:23:08","slug":"grand-korea-leisure-casino-sales-rise-103-year-on-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/grand-korea-leisure-casino-sales-rise-103-year-on-year","title":{"rendered":"Grand Korea Leisure casino sales rise 103% year-on-year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Table game performance boosted July revenue to US$28.2m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

South Korea.- Grand Korea Leisure (GKL) has reported casino sales of KRW38.99bn (US$28.2m) for July. That’s the strongest monthly performance on record and a 102.8 per cent increase year-on-year. The figure was up by 12 per cent compared to June<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Table games generated KRW35.34bn (US$25m), up 113.4 per cent year-on-year and 11.9 per cent over the previous month. Machine games reached KRW3.65bn (US$2.7m), up 36.9 per cent from July 2024 and 13.6 per cent from June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GKL operates three foreigner-only casinos in South Korea, two in Seoul and one in Busan. For the first seven months of 2025, cumulative casino sales reached KRW248.85bn (US$183m), up 17.5 per cent from the same period last year. While gaming revenue grew, the company noted a 3.7 per cent decline in the drop.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\tSee also:<\/span> Jeju Dream Tower sees casino revenue climb 90% in July<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Table game performance boosted July revenue to US$28.2m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":680,"featured_media":777023822,"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 record casino sales of US$28.2m for July, marking a 102.8 per cent year-on-year increase, primarily driven by robust table game performance. Cumulative sales for the first seven months of 2025 reached US$183m, up 17.5 per cent, despite a noted 3.7 per cent decline in the drop. This performance highlights significant growth within South Korea's foreigner-only casino segment.","focusai_entities":"Grand Korea Leisure, GKL, Jeju Dream Tower","focusai_location":"South Korea, Seoul, Busan","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (1.0), operator_casino (0.9), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GKL Drop Decline Impact","query":"What specific factors contributed to the 3.7% decline in 'drop' for GKL despite record GGR, and what are the implications for player value and operational efficiency?"},{"label":"South Korea Market Outlook","query":"Given GKL's record performance and Jeju Dream Tower's growth, what is the revised GGR forecast for the South Korean foreigner-only casino market for H2 2025, and what are the key drivers?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,16338],"tags":[29,17025,152],"class_list":["post-777029920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casino-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-casino","tag-grand-korea-leisure","tag-south-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777029920","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\/680"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777029920"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777029920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777029942,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777029920\/revisions\/777029942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777023822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777029920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777029920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777029920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}