Grand Korea Leisure Co Ltd (GKL), an operator in South Korea of foreigner-only casinos, reported casino sales of KRW43.13 billion (US$28.2 million) in May, up 40.8 percent from a year earlier.
Judged sequentially, such sales rose 7.3 percent, according to a filing to the Korea Exchange on Thursday.
The firm’s May table-game sales were just above KRW38.84 billion, 43.3-percent higher than a year ago, and up 4.9 percent month-on-month.
Machine-game sales last month were approximately KRW4.29 billion, an increase of 21.5 percent year-on-year, and up 35.5 percent sequentially.
Grand Korea Leisure runs three foreigner-only, Seven Luck-branded, casinos. Two are in the capital Seoul, one of the venues being Seoul Dragon City (pictured) in Yongsan. Its third is in the southeastern port city of Busan.
The group is a subsidiary of the Korea Tourism Organization, which in turn is affiliated to South Korea’s Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
In May, the group’s Seoul Gangnam casino continued to top contributions to group-wide casino sales, according to the firm’s supplementary information. That venue generated KRW23.06 billion in casino sales, 57.3-percent higher than in May 2025.
Sales from Seoul Dragon City casino last month rose 31.6 percent year-on-year, to nearly KRW13.49 billion. Casino sales generated from the group’s Busan Lotte casino reached KRW6.58 billion, up 15.0 percent from a year earlier.
Grand Korea Leisure’s latest results took its group-wide aggregate casino sales for the first five month of this year to KRW189.97 billion, an 8.5-percent increase from a year ago.
Group-wide casino drop – the amount paid by customers to purchase gaming chips – amounted to nearly KRW1.66 trillion in the five months to May 31, up 14.9 percent year-on-year.
