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In South Korea, some new apartments are sold for far less than their market value, and the government decides who gets to buy them. Koreans call these "lotto apartments" because getting one is like winning the lottery. In July of 2024, one lotto apartment got nearly three million applicants and crashed the government website.
Here's how they work. Korea has price caps on many new apartments, based on the cost of the land and construction. The apartments are sold before they are built, and when they are finished, often an identical apartment in the same building is worth much more. Whoever gets to buy the apartment at the capped price is going to make a lot of money.
Because so many people want these apartments, they usually go to whoever has the most points. People get points for the years they've gone without a house, how long they've had a special savings account, and how many family members they support. In Seoul in 2024, the average successful applicant had 63 out of 84 points.
But sometimes, a purchase agreement falls through, and an apartment comes back on the market. These leftover apartments are allocated with a simple lottery. In 2024, one came up in Dongtan, a new town south of Seoul. It was a three bedroom apartment sold in 2017 for the capped price of about $350,000. In 2024, same-size apartments in the building were selling for around $1.1 million, but this one was put back on the market for the 2017 price.
This lottery had no requirements. You didn't need points, or a special savings account. Anyone in Korea over 19 could enter the lottery, and whoever won could sell the apartment the next day.
When the applications opened at nine in the morning, the government website crashed. At one point the website told people that it would take 692 hours, almost a month, just to get onto the site. One 30-something woman told a reporter, "It says 790,000 people are in front of me. Can I even do it today?" When applications finally closed, a day late, 2,944,780 people had applied for the one apartment.
Your odds of winning were about 1 in 3 million. That's still better than Korea's official Lotto, and the prize was much, much bigger. That month, the Lotto jackpot was about $230,000 after taxes. The winner got an apartment worth about $750,000 more than they paid.
The government responded by changing who can enter. Starting in June of 2025, only people who don't currently have a house can enter the draws for leftover apartments. The price gap is still there. As long as the government sells new apartments for far less than people are willing to pay, and there are never enough apartments to go around, every apartment is a prize, and the only question the government needs to answer is who gets to play the lottery.
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