Tickets for singer Lim Young-woong’s national tour concert in Busan go on sale at 8 pm on the 19th. With all seats sold out for each performance due to picketing (ticketing so intense that blood boils) and scalping of tickets several times higher than the original price, it was argued that measures should be taken during the National Assembly audit.
At the audit of the National Assembly’s Culture, Sports and Tourism Committee on the 17th, Justice Party lawmaker Ryu Ho-jeong said, “Sampled tickets for performances, including Lim Young-woong’s concerts, are selling at twice the basic price, and expensive seats are selling at 30 times the price. In some cases, Lim Young-woong’s concerts cost more than 5 million won.” pointed out. According to Rep. Ryu, on Ticketbay, an online ticket trading platform, two tickets for Lim Young-woong’s national tour concert ‘ IM HERO
‘ Seoul performance, which were reserved on September 14th and October 5th (adjacent seats), were sold for 5.55 million won . Came up. As of the 19th, this ticket has been deleted from Ticket Bay. However, more than 500 tickets are still being traded here. VIP seat tickets were found to be sold for about 3 million won per ticket . The original ticket price is 165,000토스카지노 도메인 won for the most expensive VIP seats.
As ticket scalping is rampant, related reports are increasing rapidly every year. According to the data that Rep. Ryu received from the Korea Creative Content Agency, the number of reports received at the ticket scalper reporting center operated by the Korea Creative Content Agency (KOCCA) rapidly increased last year to 359 in 2020, 785 in 2021, and 4,224 in 2022.
Representative Ryu pointed out, “The Promotion Agency is running a campaign to eradicate ticket scalping and is operating a ticket scalper reporting center, but nothing has changed.” He added, “The number of reports is increasing day by day, but in reality, no proper action has been taken in 0 cases.” He continued, “The Korea Professional Sports Association is building a ticket scalper database through regular monitoring and sharing it with sports teams and ticketing companies to block scalpers on its own,” adding, “The Promotion Agency has only one person in charge of reporting ticket scalpers, and even that is responsible for popular culture and arts. I am a comprehensive information system manager. “For over three years, they only pretended to make efforts to eradicate ticket scalpers,” he said.
Cho Hyun-rae, head of the Promotion Agency, said, “We are sorry that no follow-up administrative action was taken after actually receiving the report.” He added, “With the revision of the Performance Act, a law has been prepared to take administrative action or action against ticket scalping starting in March of next year, so we will be able to stop ticket scalping.” It is now possible to monitor and verify the facts of the report. “I think we will be able to implement (a policy to eradicate ticket scalpers) in earnest starting next year,” he said.Meanwhile, ticket reservations for Lim Young-woong’s national tour Busan concert begin at 8 pm on the 19th. Lim Young-woong’s agency, Fish Music, announced a strong response to illegal ticket scalping. Fish Music said, “Illegal tickets for Busan concerts will be managed in the same way as those in Seoul and Daegu,” and added, “We will immediately cancel reservations that are considered illegal transactions without prior notice.” Interpark, a ticket reservation agency, also said, “We are conducting daily monitoring and responding to accounts suspected of illegal transactions.”
