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 74.5% since 2008.

Priority of lottery fund use

• The sectors which are in desperate need of lottery funds are “housing stability for low-income families (60.9%)” and “welfare for the underprivileged (23.4%)”.

Lottery purchase experience for the past year

• When asked if they bought a lottery ticket at least once for the past year, 57.9% 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 21.7%, followed by ‘once a week (18.4%)’ and ‘biweekly (14.7%)’ in Lotto.
• In Pension Lottery and Instant Game, ‘once a year’ was the highest with 27.6% and 24.8% 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 8,694 and KRW 7,609 are spent for Lotto and Pension Lottery tickets each.

Amount of money spent in lottery purchase

Category		Average (won)
		Lotto Lottery
Total		8,694
Sex	Male	9,433
	Female	7,501
Age	19~29yrs	8,252
	30s	8,820
	40s	9,015
	50s	8,622
	60 and above	8,574

Amount of money spent in lottery purchase-Pension Lottery 520

Category		Average (won)
		Pension Lottery 520
Total		7,609
Sex	Male	8,269
	Female	6,094
Age	19~29yrs	6,380
	30s	7,240
	40s	9,425
	50s	7,921
	60 and above	5,759