Casino sales in December at Grand Korea Leisure Co Ltd (GKL), an operator in South Korea of foreigner-only casinos, decreased by 6.4 percent from a year ago, to KRW36.30 billion (US$25.1 million), according to an update filed to the Korea Exchange on Monday.
Judged sequentially, Grand Korea Leisure’s December casino sales were down 13.0 percent.
In December, table-game sales were nearly KRW33.07 billion, 7.4-percent lower than a year ago, and a 13.8-percent decline month-on-month.
Machine-game sales in December were KRW3.23 billion, an increase of 5.6 percent year-on-year, but down 4.1 percent from the prior month.
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 casino firm is a subsidiary of the Korea Tourism Organization, which in turn is affiliated to the country’s Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
In December, Grand Korea Leisure’s three casinos reported aggregate casino drop of KRW330.37 billion, an increase of 19.8 percent from a year earlier, and up 1.0 percent sequentially.
The December operational results took Grand Korea Leisure’s aggregate casino sales for the full-year 2025 to just above KRW425.3 billion, 8.0-percent higher than in 2024.
In 2025, the firm’s casino drop was about KRW3.70 trillion, up 1.5 percent year-on-year.
The Seoul Gangnam casino was the largest contributor to group-wide casino sales last year, showed the data. It generated nearly KRW205.61 billion in casino sales for the full year, while Seoul Dragon City casino recorded just under KRW150.67 billion in casino sales. The Busan Lotte casino reported sales of KRW69.05 billion in 2025.
