In the United States, there has been no winner for 25 consecutive weeks, and a lottery winner has emerged while the prize money has piled up to 1.35 billion dollars (approximately 1.7 trillion won). This prize is the second largest in the history of ‘Mega Millions’ after $1.53 billion (approximately 1.9 trillion won) in October 2018.
According to the New York Times (NYT) on the 14th (local time), a resident of Maine won the US lottery Mega Millions. In this lottery, after selecting 5 numbers from 1 to 70, 1 from 1 to 25 is selected as an additional (Mega Ball). The largest prize in the history of the American lottery was 2.04 billion won (about 2.5 trillion won) won in the Powerball lottery in November last year. The first prize in the Mega Millions lottery can be split over 30 years or a lump sum of $724.6 million (approximately 900 billion won). The NYT reported, “The first thing to do when you win the lottery is to get a lawyer.”
New York = Correspondent Kim Hyun-soo kimhs@donga.com