Kolotto is an online Lotto game aimed at foreigners
with a draw made every day is new on the market. Kolotto which handles the
lottery venture for Korea Tourism Association announced on 25th that it has
newly introduced a selection-based Lotto for foreign patrons. The newly
introduced 'Daily Lotto 5/30' is issued by Lotto ticket vending machines, in
which the customer selects 5 numbers from 1-30 and fills them in on the Main
form and is issued with a lottery slip by the vendor. Regardless of the
sequence of numbers, once there are identically matching numbers, the player
claims the prize lot. In the case of the first prizewinner, he should match
both all the 5 numbers on the Main Form and 1 number on the Super Ball Form to
claim the prize. The minimum prize lot for the first prizewinner is \ 100
million Won. Lottery tickets are available for sale at Korea Tourism Gift
Shops at Myeong-dong and Insadong, Buy the Way branches at special tourist
areas and the Itaewon branch, Itaewon and Yongsan branches of lottery counter,
CheonhaMyeongdang, and a draw is made at 8:30 PM every day.
Lottery Expenditure
Credited with Trimming Country's Economic Growth Rate
SEOUL, South Korea (May 19, 2005) -- Spending on lottery tickets trimmed
the country's economic growth rate by an estimated 0.3 percentage point last
year, according to the Ministry of Finance and
Economy................................Subscribers
Korea's Luckiest Lotto
Shop Does it Again SOUTH KOREA (May 23, 2005) -- Korea's
luckiest lottery vendor, with four jackpot winners to its name, is the Chance
Lotto Room in Gagyeong-dong in Cheongju, North Chungcheong
Province........................Subscribers
How Many Lotteries Are
Too Many? Calls to Restructure Korea's Lottery Industry
SOUTH KOREA (February 14, 2005) -- According to a survey, there are 13
kinds of printed lottery tickets issued in Korea by various government
agencies............................Subscribers

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