The Korea Lottery Commission

Lottery related public awareness

• According to overall evaluation, empathy with “It's good to have lottery system” is 70.3%.

Priority of lottery fund use

• The sectors which are in desperate need of lottery funds are “housing stability for low-income families (52.2%)” and “scholarship for low-income families (25.6%)”.

Lottery purchase experience for the past year

• When asked if they bought a lottery ticket at least once for the past year, 62.8% responded ‘YES’. The figure is similar to the prior year.
• When asked what lottery ticket and how often they bought, ‘once a week’ was the highest with 24.4%, followed by ‘once a month (20.8%)’ and ‘biweekly (12.7%)’ in Lotto.
• In Pension Lottery and Instant Game, ‘once a month’ was the highest with 25.7% and 19.4% 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 8,767 and KRW 6,648 are spent for Lotto and Pension Lottery tickets each.

Amount of money spent in lottery purchase

Category		Average (won)
		Lotto Lottery
Total		8,767
Sex	Male	9,699
	Female	7,591
Age	19~29yrs	8,461
	30s	9,115
	40s	8,054
	50s	9,191
	60 and above	9,007

Amount of money spent in lottery purchase-Pension Lottery 520

Category		Average (won)
		Pension Lottery 520
Total		6,648
Sex	Male	7,188
	Female	5,611
Age	19~29yrs	5,800
	30s	6,308
	40s	6,889
	50s	7,650
	60 and above	6,714