Casino sales in March at Grand Korea Leisure Co Ltd (GKL), an operator in South Korea of foreigner-only casinos, rose sequentially and in year-on-year terms, according to a Thursday update filed to the Korea Exchange.
The firm’s casino sales amounted to approximately KRW41.45 billion (US$28.3 million) last month, up 27.7 percent from February. Judged year-on-year, casino sales rose 2.6 percent.
In March, table-game sales were KRW38.45 billion, up 28.2 percent sequentially, and 3.0-percent higher than a year earlier.
Machine-game sales in March were KRW3.00 billion, a 22.0-percent increase from the previous month, but 1.9-percent lower from a year ago.
Grand Korea Leisure runs three foreigner-only, Seven Luck-branded, casinos. Two are in the capital Seoul, including one at Gangnam. Its third is in the southeastern port city of Busan.
The company is a subsidiary of the Korea Tourism Organization, which in turn is affiliated to the country’s Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
In the three months to March 31, Grand Korea Leisure’s aggregate casino sales were up 15.6 percent year-on-year, to nearly KRW108.25 billion.
In the first three months of 2025, the firm’s “drop” – the amount paid by customers to purchase gaming chips – declined by 9.7 percent year-on-year to approximately KRW826.86 billion.
In late February, Grand Korea Leisure told GGRAsia the group had gone live on one of its gaming floors, with its self-developed card game BROG.
