Prize amounts to record win for casino lottery
Taiwan News
Date: 2017/09/19
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – A man from Taiwan won a record NT$25 million (966 million
Photo courtesy of Antoine Taveneaux. (By Wikimedia Commons)
won) in a lottery at a casino on the South Korean island of Jeju, reports said Tuesday.
Four casinos across the country have organized the Paradise Mega Jackpot, and the most recent prize was the highest issued so far this year, reports said.
The Taiwanese man was not named, but he was referred to as “C,” aged 31, and reports said he had won the sum in the early hours of Tuesday.
The main prize in the jackpot was only awarded twice before this year, the equivalent of about NT$15 million on May 14 and NT$14.4 million on May 29, according to a report in the Apple Daily.
The Paradise Group said the average jackpot prize in South Korea amounted to 100 million won (NT$2.6 million) and was difficult to win. [FULL STORY]
