The Korea Lottery Commission

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.

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%)”.

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.

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

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