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SafetySeptember 5, 2026
Korean fans do not use proxy ticketing either
- Fan-to-fan ticket trading is common in Korea, but paying a stranger first is not. Korean press has repeatedly reported proxy-ticketing scams aimed at overseas fans.
- The shape of it is always the same. Someone offers to buy the ticket for you, takes a deposit, then keeps asking for more under names like transfer fee, account protection deposit, or a charge to release an escrow.
- None of those things exist at the ticket sellers. There is no process by which a seller collects such money from a private person. The moment a second payment is requested is the moment it is confirmed as a scam.
- The way it grows is fixed too: sending more money to recover what was already sent. Treat the first payment as lost and stop there.
- Korean fans look up the account number and name on a fraud-report site first, and use a trading platform such as Ticketbay rather than a private transfer.
- The safest route is buying under your own name. Korean sellers usually verify by Korean mobile number, but Interpark runs a separate site for overseas buyers: ticket.globalinterpark.com verifies you by passport, and once done it holds for a year.
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