Woman in her 30s made W442m scalping tickets — including 9 for BTS comeback show

One idol concert ticket for 1 million won ($723).

A woman in her 30s has been caught by police after using macro programs to illegally purchase tickets to popular idol concerts and resell them for hundreds of millions of won. She was also found to have used accounts registered under family members and acquaintances to illegally book nine tickets to BTS's Gwanghwamun Square performance held in March.

The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency's cyber investigation unit said Wednesday it had forwarded the woman, identified only as A, to prosecutors without detention on Friday on charges of violating the Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection, the Performance Act, and obstruction of business.

According to police, A is suspected of illegally purchasing and reselling approximately 2,600 performance tickets between April 2023 and March of this year. She resold individual tickets for as much as 1 million won apiece.

Police found that on Feb. 23, A used a macro program and accounts registered under family members and acquaintances to book nine tickets to the BTS Gwanghwamun performance held on March 21.

Police have applied for pre-indictment seizure and collection preservation on approximately 442 million won ($319,000) in criminal proceeds attributed to A.

"Amendments to the Performance Act and the National Sports Promotion Act take effect Friday, strengthening sanctions against the purchase or sale of tickets through macro programs or other fraudulent means," a police official said. "We will continue to strictly investigate illegal ticket purchasing and retail."

The amended laws — dubbed the "anti-scalping law" — take effect Friday and allow authorities to impose fines of up to 50 times the sale price on those who illegally sell tickets, and to seize and collect profits obtained through such sales.