Intensive Crackdown on 'Ticket Scalping' for Train Tickets During Seollal Holiday

Provided by Korea Railroad

[Asia Economy (Daejeon) Reporter Jeong Il-woong] Korea Railroad announced on the 17th that it will strengthen real-time monitoring to eradicate online ticket scalping, where train tickets are preempted using macro programs and resold at a premium.

To eradicate ticket scalping, Korea Railroad will first introduce technology that requires the input of irregular numbers or letters when the number of connections per minute exceeds a certain threshold, blocking the misuse of macros.

In addition, if a large number of tickets are purchased through abnormal methods and unfairly distributed on secondhand trading platforms, strong measures such as criminal charges for obstruction of business will be taken.

Previously, since 2020, Korea Railroad has been blocking unfair online distribution of tickets by extracting suspicious signs of scalping through big data analysis techniques on holiday ticket reservation sites and reporting them to investigative agencies.

In addition to these efforts, last year the court supported Korea Railroad’s crackdown on ticket scalping by imposing a summary fine of 5 million won on an online scalper for obstructing the fairness and propriety of ticket sales (obstruction of business).

Separately, Korea Railroad is also conducting an event that rewards informants who report cases of unfair distribution of train tickets involving premiums both online and offline, as well as misuse of macro programs, with KTX discount coupons or free ride tickets.

Reports of suspected illegal ticket transactions can be made through the ‘Voice of Customers’ section on the Korea Railroad website.

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