Korea cracks down on rampant ticket scalping

New legislation bans use of bots for buying tickets amid widespread resale on K-pop shows

News By Gordon Masson | 3 April 2024

Superstar singer IU threatens a lifetime fan club ban to anyone who illegally resells a ticket

Anti-scalping campaigners in South Korea are celebrating a victory after the country’s government pledged that new legislation to effectively outlaw the use of “macro tools” to buy tickets will come into effect this Friday (5 April).

Policymakers at the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism are determined to combat the rampant resale which has been blighting shows in the country. As a result, they have revised the Public Performance Act so that scalpers now face up to one year in…

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