Korean students lend IDs for hefty fee, resell tickets to campus festivals

“I can get you through the student ID check. Just don’t make it too obvious that the admission wristband has been taken off,” one post on an online secondhand marketplace read. Another post said: “The photo on the student ID doesn’t matter because it’s so small. Just say you had plastic surgery, and they’ll let you pass.” May has arrived, and for Korean university campuses, this means college festivals, K-pop idols on outdoor stages — and, once again, a rampant ticket scalping problem. Students resell their tickets online at hefty prices, while idol fans gladly open their wallets for a chance to pose as college students and see their beloved stars. Organizers have repeatedly introduced stricter identification checks and admission procedures to fend off scalped tickets, but as what happens every year, borrowed student IDs make it difficult to identify illegally obtained tickets. Scalpers cash in despite outsider ban A search of secondhand marketplaces and social networks, including X, showed a steady stream of posts selling college festival admission tickets or offeringWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times