{"id":777037562,"date":"2026-02-03T07:47:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T10:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777037562"},"modified":"2026-04-21T14:46:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T17:46:34","slug":"south-koreas-paradise-co-casino-revenue-rises-over-30-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/south-koreas-paradise-co-casino-revenue-rises-over-30-in-january","title":{"rendered":"South Korean casino operator Paradise Co sees revenue rise in January"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Casino sales were KRW94.3bn (US$65.3m).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>South Korea.- <strong>Paradise Co<\/strong> has shared its financial results for January. The operator has reported casino sales of K<strong>RW94.3bn (US$65.3m)<\/strong>, up 31 per cent year-on-year and 26.7 per cent from December.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Table-game<\/strong> sales were KRW89.2bn (US$61.8m), up 32.9 per cent year-on-year and 29.6 per cent compared to the previous month. <strong>Machine game<\/strong> sales were KRW5.09bn (US$3.5m), a 9.4 per cent increase year-on-year, but down 8.8 per cent compared to December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the full-year 2025, Paradise Co\u00a0reported <a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/south-koreas-paradise-co-casino-revenue-rises-in-9-9-in-2025\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/south-koreas-paradise-co-casino-revenue-rises-in-9-9-in-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">casino sales of\u00a0KRW900.5bn (US$623.6m)<\/a>, up 9.9 per cent year-on-year. <strong>Table-game<\/strong>\u00a0sales were KRW846.3bn (US$585.7m), up 10.3 per cent, while\u00a0<strong>machine game<\/strong>\u00a0sales were KRW54.2bn (US$37.5m), a 4.1 per cent increase. The aggregate table drop was KRW7.15 trillion, up 4.1 per cent compared to 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Paradise Co operates\u00a0<strong>four casinos<\/strong>: Walkerhill in Seoul, Jeju Grand on Jeju Island, Busan Casino in the southern port city of Busan, and Paradise City, near the main international airport serving Seoul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A planned <a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/casinos-in-south-korea-paradise-co-to-begin-construction-on-new-hotel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">new hotel in Seoul<\/a>\u00a0has a target opening for 2028. The 18-floor hotel will have approximately\u00a0<strong>200 suites and five basement levels<\/strong>\u00a0offering services for foreign VIPs as part of a strategy to\u00a0attract more international high-rollers. The cost of the development is estimated between KRW500bn (US$360m) and KRW550bn (US$400m).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"see-also-container\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"see-also-label\">See also:<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"related-article\">\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"related-article__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/03\/Jeju-Dream-Tower-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"related-article__text\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"see-also-label-strong\">See also:<\/span> <a href='https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/jeju-dream-tower-casino-sales-jump-55-in-january'>Jeju Dream Tower casino sales jump 55% in January<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Casino sales were KRW94.3bn (US$65.3m).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":777034406,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Paradise Co reported robust January casino sales of KRW94.3bn (US$65.3m), a 31% year-on-year increase, primarily driven by strong table-game performance. The operator also detailed full-year 2025 casino sales of KRW900.5bn (US$623.6m) and announced a strategic KRW500bn-KRW550bn (US$360m-US$400m) investment in a new luxury hotel in Seoul, targeting international VIPs for a 2028 opening.","focusai_entities":"Paradise Co, Jeju Dream Tower","focusai_location":"South Korea, Seoul, Jeju Island, Busan","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (0.9), marketing_crm (0.7), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"VIP Segment Outlook","query":"How will the planned Seoul hotel impact Paradise Co's market share and GGR from the foreign VIP segment, particularly given regional competition and evolving travel patterns?"},{"label":"Capital Allocation Strategy","query":"What is the projected ROI and payback period for the KRW500bn-KRW550bn hotel investment, and how does it align with Paradise Co's broader capital allocation strategy and debt leverage?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,16338],"tags":[29,24619,1705,152],"class_list":["post-777037562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casino-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-casino","tag-finance","tag-paradise-co","tag-south-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777037562","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\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777037562"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777037562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777037578,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777037562\/revisions\/777037578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777034406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777037562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777037562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777037562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}