“I thought I would have a larger share.”
People are divided on the allocation issue.
An intriguing story has surfaced online about a netizen who is now in a quandary over how to split a lottery win worth 10 million Korean won ($8,500) after a ticket he had gifted to his friend turned out to be a winner.
On the 1st of the month, a netizen, Mr. A, posted a story titled “My friend won the lottery that he scratched on my behalf” in an online community.
According to Mr. A, he bought six lottery tickets with 10,000 won ($8.50) he had on hand at the suggestion of his friend.
Mr. A, thinking his friend might be bored if he scratched the tickets alone, handed over three of them to his friend, saying, “Here, you do this.”
Fortuitously, one of the tickets his friend scratched off turned out to be a 10 million won ($8,500) winner.
Mr. A said, “I thought I would naturally have a larger share. But I read on the internet that it could be a 50-50 split if I had given the ticket to my friend. Or, if I had transferred ownership of the ticket, my friend could claim the entire amount. My friend thinks it’s 7 for him and 3 for me. What do you think?”
Netizens had various reactions to this story.
Some suggested that the situation would depend on whether Mr. A’s words, “Here, you do this,” meant he was giving the tickets away or merely asking his friend to scratch them off. They also felt that if there were a legal dispute, Mr. A, having paid for the tickets, would have the upper hand.
Others argued, “If you said ‘do this,’ it means you gave it to him. That’s a transfer. No matter how much it hurts, what’s given is given.” “We don’t know whether you’re changing your story because it won. It’s a matter of your conscience,” casting doubt on the transfer.
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