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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 71.1% 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 (58.3%)” and “welfare for the underprivileged (24.7%)”.
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, 55.9% responded ‘YES’. The figure is similar to the prior year.
  • When asked what lottery ticket and how often they bought, ‘once a month’ was the highest with 29.6%, followed by ‘once a week (20.6%)’ and ‘biweekly (13.2%)’ in Lotto.
  • In Pension Lottery and Instant Game, ‘once a month’ was the highest with 20.4% and 24.4% respectively.
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 8,402 and KRW 8,546 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 8,402
Sex Male 9,014
Female 7,478
Age 19~29yrs 8,382
30s 8,369
40s 9,289
50s 7,873
60 and above 7,909
Amount of money spent in lottery purchase-Pension Lottery 520
Category Average (won)
Pension Lottery 520
Total 8,546
Sex Male 8,222
Female 8,941
Age 19~29yrs 6,406
30s 6,769
40s 12,497
50s 7,091
60 and above 7,375
※ This survey of 1,027 men and women aged 19 years and above was conducted by Gallup for 34 days between October 24th, 2016 to November, 28th, 2016, (±3.1 sampling error, 95% confidence level)