'17,000 Won Ticket for 250,000 Won?' Scalping Appears Again at University Festival Following Last Year

Mask Off After 3 Years: May 'Yonsei Akaraka' Festival

Tickets for 'Akaraka Reaches the World (Akaraka)', a festival hosted by the Yonsei University cheerleading squad on the 20th, are being traded like scalped tickets at more than 10 times the original price.

Akaraka tickets are sold in two categories: 9,000 group tickets distributed by department to Yonsei University students, and 2,200 individual tickets. The price is 17,000 KRW.

On the 23rd, students are walking through the green campus of Yonsei University in Seodaemun-gu, Seoul. The Korea Meteorological Administration forecasted that the whole country would be mostly clear, with the highest apparent temperature rising above 31 degrees Celsius, showing summer weather. Fine dust levels are expected to be 'moderate' in most regions nationwide. Photo by Hyunmin Kim kimhyun81@

Due to the limited quantity, students who could not obtain tickets are trading them like scalped tickets at prices more than 10 times higher.

Recently, posts about buying and selling tickets for the school's festival 'Akaraka' have been appearing one after another on Yonsei University's online community. Prices are set between 100,000 and 250,000 KRW. Buyers offering advance payments are not hard to find.

There are also posts asking what a reasonable price is for buying Akaraka tickets for tens of thousands of won. Comments on these posts include "If you get caught with scalped tickets, the tickets will be confiscated," and "Last year, I sold mine for 300,000 KRW and didn't get caught. It never happens."

Usually held in May, 'Akaraka' was held online after the COVID-19 pandemic began in early 2020, but resumed in-person on September 24 last year, two days before the complete lifting of the outdoor mask mandate, marking the first face-to-face event in three years.

At that time, as it was the first in-person event in three years, scalped ticket prices rose to around 300,000 KRW. Demand surged because many freshmen and a significant number of students who enrolled after the pandemic started in 2020 had never experienced the festival since their admission.

Since Akaraka is an event organized by the cheerleading squad, the school explained that it is difficult for the administration to regulate ticket trading between individuals.

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