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A new lower bound for the Jung constant $JC(l^{(Φ)})$ of the Orlicz sequence space $l^{(Φ)}$ defined by an N-function Φ is found. It is proved that if $l^{(Φ)}$ is reflexive and the function tΦ'(t)/Φ(t) is increasing on $(0,Φ^{-1}(1)]$, then
$JC(l^{(Φ)}) ≥ (Φ^{-1}(1/2))/(Φ^{-1}(1))$.
Examples in Section 3 show that the above estimate is better than in Zhang's paper (2003) in some cases and that the results given in Yan's paper (2004) are not accurate.