Busan fireworks festival crackdown nets ticket scalpers, beach spot sellers amid price-gouging complaints

Eight people, including a middle school student, were caught scalping tickets and trying to charge visitors for beach viewing spots at Saturday’s Busan Fireworks Festival. The Busan Metropolitan Police Agency said Monday that it carried out the crackdown around Gwangalli Beach, where an estimated 1.2 million people gathered for the festival’s 21st edition. Some of those caught had laid out picnic mats to claim spots on the sand, then offered the spaces for a fee on a secondhand trading app. Two