Vietnamese gets $1 million for selling winning lottery ticket

For selling a lucky Mega Millions lottery ticket at his store Wednesday (local time), the Vietnamese shop owner will get a $1 million bonus, U.S. media reported.

According to NBCNews.com, Thuy Nguyen, owner of Jenny’s Gift Shop in San Jose, Calif., sold one of the two winning Mega Millions jackpot lottery tickets.

The owner of a newsstand in Atlanta, where the other winning ticket was sold, is Lee Young-soo, a 58-year-old Korean immigrant. But it was a different story for her as Georgia lottery rules provide no retailer payout, the report said.

Ira Curry, a Georgia woman, came forward to claim half of the $648 million lottery jackpot, the second-biggest lottery prize in the U.S. history, the report said. The other winner did not immediately come forward.

Park Sae-jin swatchsjp@ajunews.com