SEJONG, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Lottery sales in South Korea hit a 15-year high in the first half of the year amid the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, government data showed Wednesday. Sales of lottery tickets were tallied at 2.6 trillion won (US$2.2 billion) in the January-June period, up 11.1 percent from a [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Sales of Lotto tickets in South Korea reached an all-time high in 2018 though their growth slowed amid the absence of new sales outlets, the country’s lottery operator said Tuesday. Total Lotto sales are estimated at 3.97 trillion won (US$3.5 billion) for last year, up 4.4 percent from the [...]
BUSAN, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The Busan Metropolitan Government announced on August 23 that it will be holding a special raffle event as part of its citywide cleanup efforts. The event will be restricted to Millak Waterfront Park to tackle waste left by visitors who do not correctly dispose of their garbage. To place [...]
SEOUL, April 12 (Korea Bizwire) – The government earned 62.5 trillion won (US$54.56 billion) from the gambling industry over the past 15 years, about half of it through taxes, data showed Wednesday. The Korea Taxpayers Association analyzed records from the National Gambling Control Commission and found that the government collected approximately 31.55 trillion won in [...]
SEJONG, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – More than half of South Koreans have bought lottery tickets at least once last year amid the deepening economic slump, a survey showed Monday. According to the survey of 1,000 people by the finance ministry in November last year, 55.9 percent said they have made a lottery ticket purchase [...]
SEJONG, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Sales of the Korean lottery Lotto hit their highest last year, statistics from the operator showed Monday, a trend that comes during economic slumps, social analysts say. The statistics from the Korea Lottery Commission said Lotto sales reached 3.55 trillion won (US$3.02 billion), or 3.55 billion tickets, last year, [...]
SEJONG, Feb. 4 (Yonhap) – Sales of lottery tickets in South Korea soared to a 12-year high in 2015 on robust demand for online lotteries, government data showed Thursday, amid a prolonged economic slump. Lottery sales stood at 3.56 trillion won (US$2.96 billion) last year, up 8.3 percent from the previous year’s 3.29 trillion won, [...]
CHUNGJU, Nov.11 (Korea Bizwire) – At a popular nursery school, parents waited quietly as a lottery to determine which children would enter kicked off. You could cut the tension with a knife. In the end, only 25 children were selected to enter the class for five-year-olds, even though 118 applied. The 93 parents whose children [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent lottery result in Korea has become a much talked-about subject among Korean Lotto lovers, as the outcome represented a relatively rare phenomenon. The six pairs of numbers for the jackpot of Nanum Lotto’s 640th winning results, 14-15-18-21-26-35, were exactly same as the lottery’s 64th results, except for [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – For the past five years, the amount of money unclaimed by lotto winners surpassed 200 billion won (US$192 million), according to the Korea Lottery Committee. According to the report from the lottery committee submitted to the ruling Saenuri Party (New Frontier Party) lawmaker Park Myung-jae, the unrecovered lotto prize money [...]