The Korea Lottery Commission

Lottery related public awareness

• According to overall evaluation, empathy with “It's good to have lottery system” is 66.5%.

Priority of lottery fund use

• The sectors which are in desperate need of lottery funds are “housing stability for low-income families (50.9%)” and “scholarship for low-income families (18.6%)”.

Lottery purchase experience for the past year

• When asked if they bought a lottery ticket at least once for the past year, 56.9% 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 23.7%, followed by ‘once a week (21.8%)’ and ‘biweekly (15.9%)’ in Lotto.
• In Pension Lottery and Instant Game, ‘once a month’ was the highest with 23.4% and 18.6% 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 8,687 and KRW 8,000 are spent for Lotto and Pension Lottery tickets each.

Amount of money spent in lottery purchase

Category		Average (won)
		Lotto Lottery
Total		8,687
Sex	Male	9,169
	Female	8,004
Age	19~29yrs	7,632
	30s	8,971
	40s	10,027
	50s	10,014
	60 and above	8,556

Amount of money spent in lottery purchase-Pension Lottery

Category		Average (won)
		Pension Lottery
Total		8,000
Sex	Male	7,679
	Female	8,708
Age	19~29yrs	6,000
	30s	7,000
	40s	8,250
	50s	8,600
	60 and above	8,000