[Everyday V12]0

[Date: December 26, 2020]0

-07:05 p.m. [NEW. Kim Sae-Ri] (Urgent) Cherry Blossom year-end concert. 10% of sold-out seats left empty due to scalped tickets. On-site action directed. (Ticket King involved. Cases of "premium tickets" sold at 50 times the original price confirmed.)0

'Huh? 10% of the seats will end up being empty?'0

Currently, Cherry Blossom's year-end concert tickets ranged from seventy thousand won to a hundred thousand won depending on seat location. 0

Scalpers typically sold tickets at several times the price we set and unsold tickets were discarded, as they would rather throw away leftover tickets than risk selling them on-site and getting caught.0

This year-end concert would have an unprecedented 10% of the tickets discarded. The thought of the confusion caused by empty seats already gives me a headache.0

But the bigger issue is the absurd ticket prices. Scalped tickets were often called "premium tickets," or "Plme Tickets" among fans. "Plme Tickets" were typically sold at 5 to 10 times the original price. However, Everyday reported that Cherry Blossom's concert tickets this time were being traded at a 50-fold premium.0

'A hundred thousand won ticket sold for five million won? That's ridiculous.'1

While this highlighted Cherry Blossom's popularity, it was chilling to think about young fans, driven by devotion, resorting to desperate measures to afford such amounts.0

At that moment,...0