K-pop fever fuels ticket resale at Korean university festivals

May is the peak festival season at South Korean universities, when campuses bring in major K-pop acts and draw large crowds of students and visitors. But concerns are growing over the resale of festival tickets at inflated prices, as scalpers move to profit from events that are often meant to be free or low-cost for students. As of Thursday, secondhand resale platforms such as Bungaejangter and social media platform X were filled with posts selling university festival tickets or offering to lend

By The Korea Herald