'The Ordinary Jackpot' Release Schedule and Its 3.9% tvN Start
The Ordinary Jackpot (로또 1등도 출근합니다) opened on tvN at 3.9% nationwide, a figure edaily and Wikitree both credited to Nielsen Korea on September 15. The episode behind that number had been sitting on TVING since the 10th.
The premise is an office one. Gong Eun-tae, a sales team leader squeezed from above and below, wins 1.3 billion won on the lottery and comes back to work anyway instead of handing in a resignation letter. Lee Joon-hyuk plays him, with Seo Hyun-woo as Yang Jun-ho and Oh Dae-hwan as Jung Sun-hyuk. Yoon Young-bin wrote and directed all ten episodes, adapting Seo In-ha's web novel of the same name, per the drama's Korean Wikipedia entry.
Yoon's other credit on that same page is the film Gangneung. The office has a name in the show, Hongseong International, and the same page groups Baek Ye-in, Hong Jin-ki and Ha Yul-ri under its fifth sales team. CJ ENM Studios and Bon Factory produced it, and Dalparan scored it.
The release schedule runs on two clocks
TVING puts up two episodes every Thursday at 6 p.m. KST. tvN then airs them Monday and Tuesday at 9 p.m. Episodes 1 and 2 went up on TVING on September 10; tvN started on the 14th. Ten episodes over five Thursdays takes the streaming run to October 8, and the broadcast pairs carry tvN to October 13.
So the 3.9% was measured on a Monday night, on an episode anyone with a TVING subscription could have watched the previous Thursday. tvN's own Monday-Tuesday slot did better earlier this year with The Legend of Kitchen Soldier, which opened at 5.8% in May. That one went up on TVING the same day it aired, going by its English Wikipedia entry.
The two Korean reports word the measurement basis differently, which is worth flagging before anyone stacks the numbers side by side. In edaily the Jackpot figure is 전국 기준, nationwide. In the May report the cook-soldier figure is 전국 유료 가구 기준, nationwide paid-platform households. Nielsen Korea supplied both, and I can't tell from the two articles alone whether the underlying basis is identical or just similarly named.
tenAsia reported that the title's subscription-contribution number on its second day ran about three times its first-day number, and that it went straight to second among TVING's major content by cumulative contribution. No base number came with that. Three times what?
What 1.3 billion won pays out after tax
Korean lottery prizes are quoted before withholding, and Gong's 1.3 billion is quoted the same way. At the September 15 close of 1,359.4 won to the dollar, reported by Money Today, that's about $956,000.
The tax comes off in two brackets. Donghaeng Lottery's own prize payout guide lists 22% (20% income tax plus 2% local) on winnings above 2 million won up to 300 million, and 33% (30% plus 3%) above 300 million. Article 129 of the Income Tax Act is where the higher rate is set, and it applies to 그 초과하는 분, the portion above the threshold.
Nothing is withheld on the first 2 million won, which is a rounding error against a prize this size. Run the drama's ticket through those brackets and the withholding is 66 million won on the first 300 million plus 330 million on the remaining billion. So 396 million goes to tax and roughly 904 million lands in the account, about $665,000. The show's logline has Gong walking back into the office with the money rather than a resignation letter, and 904 million is the sum he'd be walking in with.
Where to watch it outside Korea
In the US it's on Rakuten Viki, free with ads, with the ad-free tier at $7.99 a month per JustWatch's US listing. Netflix doesn't appear on that listing. Two episodes were up when I checked on the morning of September 16 KST, and the Viki page listed English, Romanian, Hindi and eight more languages.
I couldn't find a date for episodes 3 and 4 on that Viki listing, so whether it follows TVING's Thursday drop or waits for the tvN pair is something I can't answer today.
Readers in India have a second route. Esquire India reported on September 12 that the series comes with a standard Prime membership there, with Viki also carrying it free. Rights like these are sold country by country, and the US and India pages are the only two I opened.
Our own September streaming roundup listed this one as a possible Netflix title, on the strength of a Koreaboo listing. That hasn't held up in the US.
The lead's name is romanized two ways, which will cost you a few minutes if you search the wrong one. Viki files him as Lee Jun Hyuk and English Wikipedia as Lee Joon-hyuk. Korean Wikipedia's disambiguation page for 이준혁 lists actors born in 1972, 1984 and 1998, and the one here is the 1984 one.
Episodes 3 and 4 go up on TVING at 6 p.m. KST on September 17. The same pair reaches tvN on the 21st and 22nd, by which point they'll have been streaming for four days again.
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