Lotte Tour Development Co Ltd, promoter of South Korea casino hotel complex Jeju Dream Tower, said its casino sales in December rose 73.8 percent year-on-year to approximately KRW40.97 billion (US$28.3 million). Judged sequentially, the tally was down 20.2 percent from November.
That latest monthly sales tally took Lotte Tour’s casino sales for full-year 2025 to KRW476.62 billion (US$329.6 million), up 61.8 percent from the KRW294.63 billion achieved in 2024. That is according to an unaudited financial reprort the company filed on Friday to the Korea Exchange.
Jeju Dream Tower – a property that houses a foreigner-only casino (pictured in a file photo) on Jeju island – saw 50,657 casino visitors in December. For full-year 2025, the casino saw an aggregate of 590,332 visitors, a 54.1-percent growth from the prior year’s 383,073, according to Lotte Tour’s supplementary business performance data.
In December, sales generated from gaming tables at the property reached nearly KRW38.86 billion, up 75.6 percent from a year ago. But it represented a decline of 22.1 percent from the previous month.
Sales from gaming machine operations stood at nearly KRW2.12 billion last month, up 46.4 percent from a year ago, and also up 44.2 percent sequentially.
The casino operator also reported that its December casino table drop – the amount paid by customers to purchase chips for table games – rose 44.7 percent year-on-year to KRW192.08 billion. The figure was down 18.5 percent from November.
The casino operator’s aggregate casino table drop in full-year 2025 was nearly KRW2.46 trillion, an increase of 62.2 percent year-on-year.
Lotte Tour’s December hotel sales reached nearly KRW7.53 billion, up 36.8 percent from a year ago. Such monthly sales were up 16.0 percent from November. Cumulative hotel sales for 2025 were KRW80.56 billion, representing a year-on-year decline of 4.8 percent.
