Jeju Dream Tower, the premier foreigner-only built-in resort on South Korea’s Jeju Island, reported unprecedented progress in July 2025, setting new benchmarks in on line casino income, gaming quantity, and visitor visitation. The property, operated by Lotte Tour Development, skilled a dramatic rise in on line casino gross sales, which reached KRW43.4 billion (roughly US$32.5 million), up 90.1% in comparison with July 2024.
This distinctive efficiency additionally represented a 21.3% enhance over June 2025, persevering with a six-month streak of sturdy momentum for the resort, in keeping with knowledge printed by Inside Asian Gaming, citing Jeju Dream Tower father or mother firm Lotte Tour Development IR. Table video games have been the primary driver behind this surge, accounting for KRW41.6 billion (US$31.1 million) of July’s income—a 21% increase from the prior month and a staggering 99.1% enhance year-on-year.
Machine video games contributed KRW1.87 billion (US$1.4 million), enhancing 30% month-on-month, although this was 5.2% beneath final yr’s July figures. The sturdy efficiency throughout gaming segments was additional supported by increased maintain percentages in July in comparison with June, serving to the on line casino attain its all-time month-to-month gross sales file.
Visitation Hits Record High; Hotel Revenue Lags
The surge in gaming exercise coincided with a record-breaking month for customer numbers. Jeju Dream Tower welcomed 56,691 company in July, surpassing its earlier peak of 51,515 set in June. This marked a ten% rise over the prior month and a 65.4% enhance from July 2024.
While the on line casino operation soared, the resort phase skilled combined outcomes. Revenue from resort operations in July stood at KRW7.88 billion (US$5.9 million), representing a 15.4% enhance over June. However, this determine was nonetheless 14.8% decrease than the KRW9.24 billion (US$6.9 million) posted in July 2024, signaling ongoing challenges in the lodging sector.
For the year-to-date interval ending July 31, cumulative resort income dropped 10.7% year-on-year to KRW43.8 billion (US$32.8 million), in comparison with KRW49.1 billion (US$36.7 million) throughout the identical interval in 2024.
Strong Year-to-Date Growth Anchored by Table Games
From January by means of July 2025, Jeju Dream Tower’s whole on line casino income reached KRW238 billion (US$178.1 million), a strong 49.3% enhance over the identical seven-month span in 2024. Table video games generated the vast majority of this progress, pulling in KRW226.2 billion (US$169.2 million)—up 51.4% year-on-year—whereas machine video games contributed KRW11.78 billion (US$8.8 million), marking an 18.4% enhance.
Meanwhile, the on line casino drop for July alone, which represents the overall quantity exchanged for chips at desk video games, climbed to KRW240.6 billion (US$173 million), a 93.4% year-on-year enhance and a 9.7% rise from June. Machine drop added KRW33.6 billion (US$24.2 million), bringing the overall on line casino drop for July to KRW274.2 billion (US$198 million).
Over the seven-month interval, cumulative on line casino drop reached KRW1.26 trillion, up 52.9% in comparison with the identical interval final yr—one other indicator of the resort’s increasing gaming footprint.
Resort’s Scale and Licensing Contribute to Success
As Jeju Island’s tallest constructing, standing at 38 flooring and 169 meters, Jeju Dream Tower has established itself as a central hub for tourism and leisure. The resort homes a wide range of choices, together with 14 eating places and bars, a retail mall, an outside pool deck, a skydeck lounge, and two spas.
Its on line casino, relocated from Lotte Hotel Jeju in June 2021, spans greater than 5,000 sq. meters and options 141 gaming tables, 190 slot machines, and 71 digital desk video games. Operated below one in all Jeju’s seven on line casino licenses, it’s amongst simply three casinos at present lively on the island and stays accessible solely to foreigners as a consequence of nationwide gaming laws.
