Casino sales at Paradise, South Korea's foreign-only casino operat
or, rose 49.5 percent in April from a year earlier, according to a Thursday report to the Korea Exchange.
It earned about 57.13 billion won ($48.5 million) in revenue compared to about 38.21 billion won in April last year. 릴게임
Last month, table sales rose 50.8% year-on-year to 53.53 billion won from 35.49 billion won a year earlier.
Machine sales in April this year rose 32.5% year-on-year to about 3.61 billion won from 2.72 billion won a year earlier.
The company's monthly update does not provide a comment on why sales fluctuated year-over-year.
Paradise's total casino revenue in the January-April period of 2019 was approximately 218.53 billion won, up 17.2% year-over-year.
Calendar sales through April 30 were close to W203.48 billion, up 17.7 percent year-on-year. In the four months of this year, machinery sales rose 11.3 percent to W150.5 billion.
TABLE DROP – The amount of cash exchanged for chips by customers at the table was just over W2.24 trillion, up 23.1% year-over-year in the January-April period of 2019.
Paradise Co.'s latest casino figures are based on the results of four venues operated by its casino division: Walkerhill in Seoul, Jeju Grand in Jeju Island, Busan Casino in the southern port city of Busan, and Paradise City in Incheon, near the main international airport serving the Korean capital, Seoul.
