Rookie Group Earns Title For Highest Ticket Scalper Prices— Sparks Fury

Are you shocked?

A survey recently revealed that approximately 5,000 cases of ticket scalping were reported over the past three years, and only 3% resulted in cancellations or other measures.

Despite last year’s revisions of the Performance Act, which strengthened penalties, ticket scalping remains rampant, with K-Pop ticket sales hitting exorbitant prices.

| SM Entertainment

Music performances accounted for most of the reported cases over the past three years, at 63.5%.

| KOCCA

With K-Pop concert tickets taking the top 20 spots for highest ticket prices on resale sites, netizens were shocked at the group with the highest tickets was none other than NCT WISH.

While tickets for their INTO THE WISH: OUR WISH concert, scheduled for November 2, originally cost 198,000 KRW per ticket, were being sold for 9,700,000 KRW ($~ 6,913.51 USD).

K-Netizens were shocked at the prices and wondered who would actually buy them.

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| instiz

• “First, second, and third place for the highest ticket prices are all SM? It’s so expensive, the agency needs to do something about it. It’s not just about selling out; the fans are getting tired of this.”
• “The ticket scalpers for WISH and RIIZE are crazy…the problem is the Chinese scalpers.”
• “Crazy.”
• “More scalpers are going to come now…”
• “They’re just saying that some are selling at that price…I don’t think it’s someone from Korea.”
• “Who’s going to buy that?”

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