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Lucky Korean market in Bronx sells third million-dollar lottery ticket

July 17, 2014
Korean market owners Hwang Sung-hyo and Hwang Hye-sook show off the certificate for the latest $1 million ticket to emerge from their store.

Deli owners Hwang Sung-hyo and Hwang Hye-sook show off the certificate for the latest $1 million ticket to emerge from their store.

There’s a place you should put at the top of your list if you want to strike lottery gold — a small Korean food market in the Bronx.

That’s because Go Hyang Jip (242 E. 204th St.), has been the home of three lottery tickets worth $1 million or more in the past eight years.

It started in 2006, with a $3 million New York lotto ticket that emerged at the business. Then it happened again in 2012, with a $1 million scratch-off ticket, and then again on June 25 this year with another $1 million scratch-off win.

That’s not even counting the second-place $250,000 Mega Millions ticket sold at the location in 2009.

Hwang Sung-hyo and Hwang Hye-sook, the couple who owns the store, have been operating the business for 14 years.

“Through the years, we’ve received multiple commissions up to $1,000 [for being the store that sells the winning ticket],” the couple said. “Although the instant lottery tickets don’t give us commissions like the Mega Millions does, we’re just happy about the fact that a winner was found here.”