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Today (19th), we will first tell you what the panda team covered until the end.

The winner of the instant lottery, whose deadline to receive the prize money is until next month, has not yet emerged.

The first prize is 500 million won.

However, problems were discovered in some of these lottery tickets during the sale, and more than 200,000 tickets were withdrawn from the market.



So, on the other hand, there is also a claim that it is a scam against the public, but today's first news, reporter Hwa Kang-yoon, will tell you first.



<Reporter Hwa Kang-yoon>



It is an instant lottery ticket that allows you to instantly check whether you won or not by scratching it with something like a coin.



Regardless of the type of lottery in Korea, including this instant lottery, the Lottery Committee of the Ministry of Strategy and Finance issues through a private consignment company, Companion Lottery.



This 1,000 won lottery ticket for the 58th round was sold until February of last year, and 99.34% of the total 40 million tickets were sold and only about 27,000 tickets were returned.



In this round, where the prize money is due by the end of next month, one 500 million won first prize lottery ticket and five 20 million won second prize lottery tickets have yet to come out.



This round is the only one where no 1st lottery ticket came out from rounds 57 to 62, and only one ticket in round 57 except for 5 tickets in round 58 did not come out, so the results are distinctly different.



The difference between the 58th round and the other rounds is that an error was discovered during the sale, and more than 200,000 lottery tickets were withdrawn from the market.



[Namgoongheon/Print lottery club manager: (Episode 58) It is a scam to the public not to follow up on errors.

It's a scam, of course.]



This is a picture of an error lottery ticket and winning confirmation data obtained by SBS at the time.



The two hat pictures matched, and visually, you won 1,000 won and 5th prize, but the data do not match, so the barcode is not recognized as a winner.



The 8 letters in the middle of the line mean each picture, but there is no same picture or same letter pair in the data.



On September 6 of last year, when an error like this occurred in Chapter 6, more than 200,000 lottery tickets were quickly retrieved.



[Person in charge of companion lottery tickets: It is a deception and fraud to sell without telling users (consumers) such things while obviously predicting that there will be (possibly) 1st place in it.]



At that time, out of 40 million lottery tickets, there were already lottery tickets .

It sold 14.6 million copies.



The story that it was a problem to take out 200,000 copies of what might have been and sell the rest as if nothing had happened broke out from within the current consignment operator's companion lottery ticket.



(Video coverage: Ha Ryung, video editing: Lee Seung-hee, CG: Kang Kyung-lim, VJ: Kim Jun-ho)



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Our reporters obtained internal documents and conversations between officials of the lottery issuer shortly after the instant lottery went wrong.

It states that once the lottery ticket is made, it is reviewed to revise the parts that should never be touched.



This content was covered exclusively by reporter Park Hyun-seok.



<Reporter Park Hyeon-seok>



September 7, the year before last, the day after the lottery winning error was discovered.



This is a Telegram room created by companion lottery officials.



An employee said that he inevitably created a Telegram room, and that the verification number data for the 1058th round of Spito could be replaced, and asked for a review of the related impact.



The companion lottery internal report obtained by SBS reveals the cause of this error and the process of fixing it.



It is written that the lottery error occurred when the data was damaged while the printing company computer manager accessed the operating server and conducted a test.



According to the regulations, the winning data that should have been deleted from the system at the same time as lottery printing was left intact, and someone damaged the data, and it was passed on without knowing that it was damaged.



It says that the verification work was conducted by randomly scratching 18,000 lottery tickets directly, and that the error was confirmed in the last digit '0' book, that is, a specific 'set'.



A total of 200,000 lottery tickets were collected from the market through this operation.



[Companion lottery official: I heard you scratched all night.

I also heard that they knew that the data had been corrupted and tried to update it.]



The internal report lists the error lottery release adjustment and data correction as measures to be taken in the accident.



After printing the lottery ticket, they even considered modifying the winning data, which should not be touched.



[Lottery industry official: It's a big deal.

If you say you did it in the lottery, there will be an uproar.

For example, the starting line for the lottery is originally number 6, but since we are going out tomorrow, move to number 7.

It's the same as this.]



The Lottery Committee of the Ministry of Strategy and Finance, who received a report on this, objected that it could cause problems with the reliability of the lottery, but did not modify or replace the winning data, and the 200,000 recovered lottery tickets remain in the warehouse of the printing house.



(Video coverage: Ha Ryung, video editing: Lee Seung-hee, CG: Lim Chan-hyuk, VJ: Kim Jun-ho)



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If you find something wrong with the lottery, you should immediately notify people and come up with countermeasures. and publishers rather kept their mouths shut.

We covered the situation in detail at the time when we tried to cover up this quietly and just move on.



This is the exclusive report of reporter Suhwan Yoo.



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is an internal document titled 'Comparison of pros and cons of each plan' obtained by SBS.



Regarding the 200,000 collected lottery tickets, we review whether to replace or correct the winning data and re-ship it, or simply discard it.



The notable point is that the probability of first place in 200,000 tickets is low, but in the case of non-emission, continuous complaints from major consumers, that is, lottery enthusiasts, are expected and reliability may deteriorate.



I knew from the beginning that the 200,000 copies collected could contain the first place, and I was concerned about it.



However, consumers were not notified.



It hid the probability and expected value that could change, as well as the fact that 200,000 copies were recovered.



Two months after the error was discovered, when the recall was announced through some media reports, it was after almost 25 million of the 40 million tickets and the rest of the lottery tickets had been sold.



[Companion lottery ticket manager: We tried to prevent as much as possible a situation where defects should no longer appear in the market, so it seems that there was more purpose in collecting that part.

At that time.]



We prepared the release by correcting the winning data, but if all the first prizes came out, don't release 200,000 copies.



Even in that case, we decided to export them sequentially through certain friendly retailers, and after delivering the information in advance, we decided to collect it immediately if another bad lottery ticket came out.



[Lottery Committee person in charge: I had 200,000 copies in stock, corrected them, and sold them sequentially if there was no 1st place



. There is not.



As it is, after quietly discarding 200,000 lottery tickets next month, it was able to pass.



On what basis they made such a decision at the time, they requested the release of the 'accident response manual', but the companion lottery refused, saying it was a private company's know-how, and the lottery committee replied as follows.



[Lottery Committee Officer: Do we need to know that?

Internally, it probably has it in order to do something with the printer…

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However, the lottery committee said that it was the best decision at the time, as it was not the first time that an average of 400,000 tickets were left unsold each time before, and it was not the first time that all of them did not come out.



(Video coverage: Ha Ryung, video editing: Lee Seung-hee, CG: Kang Kyung-rim, VJ: Kim Jun-ho, writer: Park Jeong-seon)



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Let's talk more with reporter Park Hyun-seok, who covered this story.



Q. Lottery error recovery, why didn't you tell me?



[Reporter Park Hyeon-seok: It would be common sense to inform the living, not the living, as it is, and then take appropriate action.

The point at which this error was discovered was when about 1/3 of the 40 million were sold, but the fact that the remaining 2/3 were kept silent until almost sold out is probably the most upsetting part for consumers.]



Q. No error notification, upset consumers?



[Reporter Park Hyun-seok: This is the instant lottery in question.

In the instant lottery, a few first-place tickets and a few second-place tickets are fixed from the beginning, and they are printed and released to the market.

It's different from lottery.

Even though most of the lottery tickets for the 1st and 2nd places determined in this way are sold out, there are quite a few remaining, then the rest will be sold like hot cakes, right?

This lottery release rate and the first and second place winners are made public on the Internet.

Conversely, in the beginning, the first and second places just pour out, then the rest will hardly be sold.

In the case of the 58th round, there is even a story about some consumers going on a nationwide lottery tour to find it while the first place does not come out until the end.]



Q. How to respond properly?



[Reporter Park Hyun-seok: Let's inform consumers first.

I should have followed the 'accident response manual' that appeared in the previous report.

I'm holding out until the end, saying I won't be able to disclose the contents, but let's listen to the person in charge



of the companion lottery ticket.] [The person in charge of the companion lottery ticket: If it's the same as before, you have to stop selling immediately when an error is found.

This round...

I also know that there was a saying that the rest should be discarded inside.]



Q. Where is the 500 million won '1st place lottery'?



[Reporter Park Hyun-seok: I don't know that.

Someone bought it and still has it without scratching it, or it may be in the 200,000 recovered.

But if the 1st place doesn't appear until the end, isn't it necessary to scrape the 200,000 collected tickets at least as a confirmation? It will no longer destroy the trustworthiness.]



(Video editing: Lee Seung-hee)