Hotel Employee Referred to Prosecutors for Reselling Rooms at Inflated Prices Ahead of BTS Busan Concert

▲ BTS concert in Busan held in June of this year

A hotel employee who forced existing guests to cancel their reservations and resold the rooms at exorbitant prices ahead of the BTS concert in Busan in June of this year has been caught by the police.

The Anti-Corruption and Economic Crime Investigation Unit of the Busan Metropolitan Police Agency announced that it has forwarded a man in his 50s, surnamed A, a management employee at a hotel located in Busanjin-gu, Busan, to the prosecutors' office without detention on fraud charges.

A is accused of calling a customer, B, who had already booked a stay, lying that an overbooking issue had occurred and that the reservation inevitably had to be canceled, and then reselling the room to another customer.

Investigations revealed that in the process, A sold the rooms for 500,000 to 600,000 won per night, which is more than six times the regular price.

(Photo provided by Busan Metropolitan Police Agency, Yonhap News)

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