"Lotto Is Absolutely Not Rigged" Live Event with 150 Guests to Be Opened

Live Broadcast on June 10 with 150 General Participants
Applications Open Until June 26... Meals Provided During Full Process Observation

To resolve the ongoing controversy surrounding Lotto manipulation, the Lottery Commission will open the Lotto drawing site to the public.

MBC's 'Live Broadcast Happy Dream Lotto 6/45' announced that it is recruiting audience members for the drawing broadcast until the 26th, stating, "We will hold a 'Public Lotto Drawing Live Broadcast' to promote fairness and transparency of the lottery broadcast drawing through active communication with the public."

MBC's 'Live Broadcast Happy Dream Lotto 6/45' announced that they are recruiting audience members for the drawing broadcast until the 26th.
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Along with this, they explained, "The drawing broadcast is conducted fairly with the presence of police officers according to relevant regulations, accompanied by broadcast staff and Donghang Lottery officials," and "Audience attendance at the drawing broadcast is part of the preparation process to confirm that the drawing broadcast is conducted through a fair procedure."

The 'Public Lotto Drawing Live Broadcast' will take place on June 10. In addition to the Lotto drawing broadcast, there will also be an audience for a talk show tentatively titled 'Curiosities about the Lottery, Answered by Science and Psychology.'

Applicants must be general public aged 19 or older who have not attended a Lotto or pension broadcast in the past six months. About 150 people will be selected by lottery. Winners will be notified individually via text message at 2 PM on the 31st. The schedule involves gathering at 3:20 PM at the MBC building in Sangam-dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul, and finishing attendance around 8:50 PM. Dinner will be provided by MBC.

People are lined up in front of a lottery sales store in Jeonnong-dong, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul, known as a "Lotto Meongdang" (lucky lottery store), to buy lottery tickets.
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The production team asked participants to understand that filming may occur and explained, "Interviews regarding audience impressions by the production team of MBC Lottery Broadcast's YouTube channel 'Right to Know' may be conducted."

The large-scale public Lotto broadcast was planned to clarify the 'manipulation controversy' that arose after the 1057th Lotto drawing on March 4, where there were 664 second-place winners, including 103 winners from a single sales outlet in Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul.

At that time, the Ministry of Strategy and Finance's Lottery Commission Secretariat explained, "The large number of second-place winners in the 1057th drawing was the result of preferred numbers being drawn by chance," and stated, "Lotto manipulation is impossible." However, the controversy continued, and they announced plans to hold a large-scale event opening the Lotto drawing site to the public who wish to attend.

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