Paradise Co Ltd, an operator in South Korea of foreigner-only gaming venues, said its casino sales in December rose 7.6 percent year-on-year to nearly KRW75.42 billion (US$52.1 million). Judged sequentially, such sales fell 5.4 percent, the firm stated in a Monday filing to the Korea Exchange.
Paradise Co’s table-game sales last month were KRW69.84 billion, up 5.2 percent from the prior-year period, but down 7.8 percent from November.
Machine-game sales in December rose 49.3 percent year-on-year to nearly KRW5.58 billion. That tally was also up 40.3 percent sequentially.
The December “table drop” – the amount paid by patrons to purchase gaming chips – amounted to KRW602.35 billion, up 11.4 percent year-on-year.
The company’s operations include Paradise City at Incheon, a casino resort jointly run with Japanese entertainment conglomerate Sega Sammy Holdings Inc.
Paradise Co also operates gaming facilities at Walkerhill (pictured in file photo) in Seoul, in the southern port city of Busan, and on the semi-autonomous holiday island of Jeju.
For full-year 2025, Paradise Co recorded casino sales of KRW900.52 billion, up 9.9 percent year-on-year.
Table-game sales were KRW846.34 billion in full-year 2025, up 10.3 percent year-on-year, while machine-game sales rose 4.1 percent, to KRW54.18 billion.
Paradise Co’s aggregate table drop last year stood at nearly KRW7.15 trillion, up 4.1 percent year-on-year.
