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The article mentions government support for people exempted from paying their residence tax.

I am in need of related info: how does one apply for residence tax exemption; what are the conditions?

I asked my city office about this, but did not receive a clear answer. Thanks.

@PerformingMonkey

I believe that this is correct and maybe useful:

Each draw is independent of past draws, so a ticket that is bought at a booth that sold a winning ticket in the past has exactly the same probability of winning as a ticket that is bought at a different booth.

Booths that have sold winning tickets in the past attract more people, so they sell more tickets, thus increasing the chance of a winning ticket being sold there again. People think they increase their own chances by going to crowded booths, but they actually increase the chances of the booth.

People have only one way to increase their own chances of winning: buy more tickets, regardless of the booth.

@some14some Support Maria for what? For deceiving her supporters? Have you read about the cocktails of drugs she had been taking for many years? Is that an athlete to be supported?

The official name of that university is Queen's University.

"President Park Geun-hye brought up the issue of South Koreans' resentment when Hagel visited". Yes, resentment promoted by a President who has not missed any opportunity to bash Japanese leaders and, at the same time, has missed every opportunity for rapprochement. She likes to project the image of a caring leader with the Korean public, and that of a forward-looking leader with the international audience, but her actions speak otherwise. Unfortunately, the international media has failed to scrutinize more this president's actions, both domestic (e.g., related to the spy agency scandal in Korea) and international (odd strategic choices).