NTS investigates ticket scalpers / KBS 2025.11.06.　#KBSNews

We recently reported on the situation of illegal ticket sales for professional baseball, where a 120,000 won ticket is being sold for 2 million won.

The National Tax Service has launched its first tax investigation into these illegal ticket sellers.

Among those who made hundreds of millions of won from selling illegal tickets, there were also teachers.

Reporter Kim Jin-hwa has the story.

[Report]

The 2025 professional baseball season, which ended amid intense interest, made it nearly impossible to get tickets.

[Park Jin-woo/Professional Baseball Fan: “As soon as the site opened, I spent the whole day at an internet cafe trying to book tickets, but I couldn’t get anything.”]

As soon as ticket sales began, they were sold out!

Conversely, posts selling tickets started appearing on second-hand trading sites.

Some were priced at dozens of times the original price.

Some illegal ticket sellers bought tickets in bulk and then resold them.

[Professional Baseball Fan: “Seeing them sold at such outrageous prices made me feel a bit uncomfortable.”]

The National Tax Service has begun a high-intensity tax investigation into these illegal ticket sellers.

Seventeen individuals with high transaction volumes and suspected tax evasion are the targets.

The total amount of their illegal ticket transactions is estimated to be at least 20 billion won.

One specialized illegal ticket company sold 10 billion won worth of K-pop concert tickets to foreign tourists in collaboration with a travel agency over six years.

They made profits of up to 30 times the original price.

Even office workers have jumped into the illegal ticket distribution business.

A public institution employee and a private school teacher who sold illegal tickets worth hundreds of millions of won without reporting their income are also under investigation.

The methods are evolving as well.

Using illegal automated input programs, known as ‘macros’, to secure tickets before reselling them has become standard practice. Some even sell the automated input programs themselves or internet addresses that allow immediate booking without waiting in line.

[Ahn Deok-soo/Director of the National Tax Service Investigation Bureau: “Most of them are operating without business registration and have not paid the related taxes, which we are now considering as charges.”]

The National Tax Service plans to verify their cash transaction records and hidden assets to recover the evaded taxes.

This is KBS News, Kim Jin-hwa.

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