Thailand is a country that has a unique culture and tradition with distinct interest areas, hobbies and way of life. The country is blessed with great natural beauty, beautiful people, rich culture and highly celebrated culture and heritage. Along, with a great spiritual land and great shopping and cultural hub that it is known to be, what many a people is not aware of is that Thailand and its connection with Thai lottery. A closer look at the Thai society, will one a idea of how popularly this game has attracted population from all parts of the society, especially, for the down and trodden ones.
However, it should be taken into account that the Thailand lottery that we today are aware of in the Thai society has evolved over a considerate matter of time, and has a long and intriguing history to it. It is said that the people of this great country came to play this game with King Rama Nangkalao’s time in power. It is during this time, that the country got under the influence of many countries and cultures, especially of the Chinese. At that time, the country bided for neighborhood hospital lottery and also, got concession on the monopoly lottery of the government and coined the title “Khunbre”.
Nevertheless, the popular use of lottery started with the reign of King Ram, the fifth. It was during this time that the European style of lottery made its made into the market and soon gained an abnormal popularity among citizens. It all began with the arrangement of Thai lottery in the king’s birthday, which gained great popularity. Again, it the year 1917, a lottery was officially arranged to finance the First World War, as Thailand entered the war. This incident also marks the popular usage of lottery in the Thai society and cemented its position in the Thai culture.
As told earlier, since then lottery has been an integral part of Thai culture. However, it was in the year 1934 that the government of Thailand had arranged for a lottery to generate revenue for the government. This was a great success for both the citizens and the government and therefore, lottery was formally arranged or introduced to all provinces of the country to generate revenues. This st6ep by the government only added to the popularity of Thai lotto with more and more people playing it. It was also the most significant time in the history of Thai lottery.
However, as the popularity of Thai lotto grew the complications attached with it also became more and more complex. This led to the establishment of the Government Lottery Office, on fifth April 1039, under the Ministry of Finance. In doing so the government has a lot of mission and targets to achieve. The biggest motivation in this government scheme is to generate money or revenue for the country, that would help in the process of social development and will assist in delivering better governance, therefore the lottery system prevailing in Thailand, is not just any other game played to test one’s luck and make some money, but also, a game changer for the society.