A Korean lottery winner, center, poses after claiming the top prize in Vietnam's Vietlott lottery. Captured from Vietlott's Facebook page.
A Korean living in Vietnam has won the country's largest-ever lottery prize claimed by a foreigner, taking home a jackpot worth about 102.8 billion Vietnamese dong, or approximately 5.8 billion won (about $4.2 million), according to local officials.
Vietnamese media outlet VN Express reported Tuesday that state-run lottery operator Vietlott awarded the winner, identified only as Mr. A, the top prize in its Power 6/55 lottery.
The odds of matching all six winning numbers were approximately one in 28.9 million.
Mr. A, who lives in Hanoi and works for a foreign-invested company, said he had been buying 20 to 30 tickets twice a week for the past four to five years. When jackpots grew particularly large, he sometimes purchased as many as 50 tickets for a single drawing. The winning ticket was selected using numbers he chose himself.
