Korean store owner who sold mega lotto winning ticket won't receive $1 million bonus after all

Soolee initially thought she was getting $1 million - but said she was just happy that her store won

Two winning tickets have been sold for the US's second largest jackpot in history, the $636m Mega Millions draw, lottery officials say.

One ticket was sold in California, at Jennifer's Gift Shop in San Jose, and another ticket was sold in Atlanta, Georgia.
There were two winning But it emerged yesterday that the vietnamese store owner who sold the ticket has received $1 million bonus - while the korean ownere who sold winning ticket in Georgia will get nothing.


California state lottery rules say a retailer can receive 0.5 per cent of the winning prize or up to $1 million, leaving Thuy Nguyen, the owner of Jenny's Gifts in San Jose, with the hefty bonus.
But over in Atlanta, Young Soo Lee, who runs a newsstand in the Alliance Center in Buckhead that sold the second winning ticket, will receive nothing, in accordance with Georgia law.

In the Buckhead shopping center in Atlanta, Soo Lee, a Korean immigrant who came to the U.S. in 1980, said she might have sold the ticket to a group of players who pooled their money for tickets.
She said that one purchase in the building, which includes a law firm, a bank and a consulting firm, was for 120 tickets, NBC reported.

Soo Lee had initially been told by a reporter that she was going to receive a $1 million bonus as well - but later found out it was not the case.
She said she was a 'little mad' but that she was happy her store had won anyway.

The winning numbers were 8, 14, 17, 20, 39 and the mega ball was 7, and the two winners matched all six numbers. Their $636 million prize is the second largest in U.S. lottery history.

A San Jose store owner receives a check for selling a winning lotto ticket.