Casino sales in April at Grand Korea Leisure Co Ltd (GKL), an operator in South Korea of foreigner-only casinos, stood at KRW36.17 billion (US$25.9 million), according to a Wednesday update filed to the Korea Exchange.
The April tally was up 11.5 percent from a year earlier, but down 12.7 percent from March.
In April, table-game sales were just under KRW32.86 billion, up 11.7 percent year-on-year, but down 14.5-percent sequentially.
Machine-game sales last month were KRW3.32 billion, a 10.3-percent increase from a year ago, and 10.5-percent higher than in March.
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 first four months of 2025, Grand Korea Leisure’s aggregate casino sales were up 14.5 percent year-on-year, to KRW144.42 billion.
In the January to April period, the firm’s “drop” – the amount paid by customers to purchase gaming chips – declined by 9.9 percent year-on-year to approximately KRW1.11 trillion.
