▲ Crackdown on illegal ticket scalping at the BTS Busan concert
(Photo Ingest / Courtesy of Busan Metropolitan Police Agency) Eleven people have been caught for illegal ticket scalping at the BTS world tour concert in Busan.
The Busan Metropolitan Police Agency announced today (June 14) that it deployed approximately 70 officers to the area around the Busan Asiad Main Stadium on June 12 and 13 to conduct an intensive crackdown on ticket scalping. The operation resulted in 10 cases being caught, with 11 individuals each fined 160,000 won under the Minor Offenses Act.
The scalping was carried out by cutting the admission wristbands and handing them over to the buyers.
In one instance, a ticket originally priced at 220,000 won was caught being sold to a Chinese woman for more than three times its value. A Korean woman in her 40s was caught selling a 220,000 won ticket to a Chinese national for 680,000 won, and four cases were identified where Koreans sold tickets of the same face value to foreigners for prices ranging from 350,000 to 550,000 won.
A Korean man in his 30s was apprehended after a report to 112 for brokering the sale of scalped tickets to a Chinese national.
A Chinese woman in her 20s was also caught attempting to sell a scalped ticket to a Filipino national.
An official from the Busan Metropolitan Police Agency stated, "Illegal ticket trading, which undermines the status of K-pop and destroys the sound concert culture, is clearly an unlawful act," adding, "We will continue to crack down on ticket scalping at large-scale events, including major concerts and sporting events, in the future."
(Photo: Courtesy of Busan Metropolitan Police Agency, Yonhap News)
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