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Korea lottery market

Lottery related public awareness

  • According to overall evaluation, empathy with “It's good to have lottery system” is the highest with 68.1% since 2008.
Survey on Public Awareness of the Lottery graph

Priority of lottery fund use

  • The sectors which are in desperate need of lottery funds are “housing stability for low-income families (60.5%)” and “welfare for the underprivileged (26.4%)”.
Perception on the Speculative Nature of the Lottery graph

Lottery purchase experience for the past year

  • When asked if they bought a lottery ticket at least once for the past year, 56.5% responded ‘YES’. The figure slightly increased from the prior year (by 2.8%).
  • When asked what lottery ticket and how often they bought, ‘Lotto’ was the highest with 14.2 times, followed by ‘Instant Games (6.7 times)’ and ‘Pension Lottery (5.6 times)’.
Perception on the Speculative Nature of the Lottery graph

Amount of money spent in lottery purchase

  • Majority of Lotto and Penstion Lottery ticket buyers spent KRW 10,000 or less on average at a time.
  • In average, KRW 8,230 and KRW 8,169 are spent for Lotto and Pension Lottery tickets each.
Amount of money spent in lottery purchase
Amount of money spent in lottery purchase
Category Average (won)
Lotto Lottery
Total 8,230
Sex Male 9,159
Female 6,849
Age 19~29yrs 8,012
30s 8,418
40s 8,440
50s 8,817
60 and above 7,262
Amount of money spent in lottery purchase-Pension Lottery 520
Category Average (won)
Pension Lottery 520
Total 8,169
Sex Male 8,151
Female 8,210
Age 19~29yrs 7,075
30s 9,486
40s 6,831
50s 10,193
60 and above 7,334

Lottery purchase frequency in 1 year

  • 14.0% of the buyers responded, “I buy a lottery ticket every week”, and the figure is similar to the previous year (15.5%).
Frequency of Lottery Ticket Purchase

Lottery purchase frequency for the past year

By class (unit%)
Lottery purchase frequency for the past year
Category People who purchase lottery in the past year
Once a week Every 2~3 weeks Once a month Less than once a month
Total 14.0 14.8 22.7 48.5
Sex Male 19.8 18.0 23.2 38.9
Female 5.6 10.1 21.8 62.4
Age 19~29yrs 5.8 12.8 19.7 61.8
30s 15.5 13.6 25.4 45.6
40s 14.8 15.6 17.8 51.8
50s 15.7 17.6 23.2 43.6
60 and above 16.3 13.7 28.5 41.7
※ This survey of 1,000 men and women aged 19 years and above was conducted by Gallup for 28 days between November 2th, 2015 to November, 30th, 2015, (±3.1 sampling error, 95% confidence level)