{"id":777045738,"date":"2026-08-04T07:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T10:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777045738"},"modified":"2026-08-04T08:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T11:38:14","slug":"grand-korea-leisure-casino-sales-up-6-9-in-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/grand-korea-leisure-casino-sales-up-6-9-in-july","title":{"rendered":"Grand Korea Leisure casino sales up 6.9% in July"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

GKL has posted casino sales of US$29.2m for the seventh month of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

South Korea.- Grand Korea Leisure (GKL)<\/strong> has shared its financial results for the month of July. Casino sales were KRW41.7bn (US$29.1m), up 6.9 per cent in year-on-year terms and up 12 per cent from June<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Table-game<\/strong> revenue was KRW38bn (US$26.5m), up 7.6 per cent from July 2025 and 14.2 per cent from the previous month. Machine game<\/strong> sales were KRW3.66bn (US$2.55m), up 0.4 per cent year-on-year. The casino drop was down 4.1 per cent year-on-year at KRW325.2bn (US$227m).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the first seven months of the year<\/strong>, Grand Korea Leisure reported casino sales of KRW268.9bn (US$188m), up 8 per cent compared to the January-July period of 2025. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

GKL operates three foreigner-only casinos<\/strong> under the Seven Luck brand: two in the capital, Seoul (including one in Gangnam) and the other in the southeastern port city of Busan. It operates as a subsidiary of the Korea Tourism Organization, which is affiliated with the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism. Recently, the company announced a plan<\/a> to generate casino revenue of KRW503.8bn (US$333.8m) by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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\n\t\t\t\t\tSee also:<\/span> Lotte Tour\u2019s July casino revenue hits 2026 high<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GKL has posted casino sales of US$29.2m for the seventh month of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"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 July casino sales of US$29.1m, marking a 6.9% year-on-year increase, primarily driven by robust table-game revenue growth. For the first seven months of the year, GKL's casino sales reached US$188m, up 8% compared to the prior year, as the operator of foreigner-only casinos in South Korea progresses towards its ambitious 2030 revenue target of KRW503.8bn.","focusai_entities":"Grand Korea Leisure, GKL, Korea Tourism Organization, Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism, Lotte Tour, Seven Luck","focusai_location":"South Korea, Seoul, Busan, Gangnam","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.75), operator_casino (0.9), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GKL 2030 Revenue Strategy","query":"What specific operational or market expansion strategies does GKL intend to implement to achieve its KRW503.8bn casino revenue target by 2030, particularly given the current foreigner-only market dynamics and competitive landscape?"},{"label":"South Korea Casino Market","query":"How does GKL's July performance, including the casino drop decline, compare to the broader South Korean foreigner-only casino market trends, and what are the implications for other operators like Lotte Tour?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,16338],"tags":[17025],"class_list":["post-777045738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casino-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-grand-korea-leisure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777045738","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=777045738"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777045738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777045759,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777045738\/revisions\/777045759"}],"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=777045738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777045738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777045738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}