Lotte Tour Development Co Ltd, promoter of South Korea casino hotel complex Jeju Dream Tower, said its casino sales in November rose 96.9 percent year-on-year to approximately KRW51.36 billion (US$34.9 million).
Judged sequentially, November casino sales were up 1.9 percent, according to a filing lodged on Monday with the Korea Exchange.
Jeju Dream Tower – a property that houses a foreigner-only casino (pictured in file photo) on Jeju island – saw 50,620 casino visitors in November, a 41.3-percent increase from the prior-year period, according to Lotte Tour’s supplementary business performance data published in its official website.
In November, sales generated from gaming tables at the property reached KRW49.89 billion, up 100.7 percent from a year ago, and an increase of 3.2 percent from October.
The November hold rate for table games at the property was the second highest this year, at 21.2 percent. The highest monthly record for table games’ hold rate this year had been achieved in January, at 23.2 percent.
Sales from gaming machine operations stood at nearly KRW1.47 billion last month, up 20.4 percent from November 2024, but down by 28.8 percent sequentially.
The casino operator also reported that its November casino table drop – the amount paid by customers to purchase chips for table games – rose 74.4 percent year-on-year to KRW235.78 billion. The figure was down 8.2 percent from October.
The company did not explain in the filing the variations in its latest reported sales figures.
The November tally took Lotte Tour’s aggregate casino sales for the first 11 months of 2025 to nearly KRW435.68 billion, up 60.7 percent from a year earlier.
The casino operator’s aggregate casino table drop in the January to November period was nearly KRW2.27 trillion, an increase of 63.8 percent year-on-year.
Lotte Tour’s November hotel sales reached nearly KRW6.46 billion, up 15.9 percent from a year ago, but down 12.7 percent from October. Cumulative hotel sales for the first 11 months this year were KRW73.00 billion, representing a year-on-year decline of 7.7 percent.
