Police Raid PC Bang: 'Ordinary Office Worker' Arrested for Violating Information and Communications Network Act

A PC bang in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province.

A man is sitting in front of two computers displaying professional baseball game schedules and ticket reservation windows.

Moments later, police officers burst in.

[Police: We are executing a search and seizure warrant for violating the Information and Communications Network Act. Take your hands off the keyboard.]

He is arrested on the spot on charges of illegally reselling 300 professional baseball tickets.

The man confessed to the police that he is an office worker in his 30s and that he acted alone.

From March of last year until recently, 35 online scalpers who resold over 20,000 tickets were apprehended by the police.

The majority were not members of criminal organizations, but ordinary office workers, public servants, and homemakers.

They told the police that they initially used programs like macros to quickly book their own seats, but then realized they could easily make money from it.

They primarily used automated input programs known as macros and direct link programs.

[Kim Seong-taek / Chief of Cyber Crime Investigation Unit 1, Gyeonggi Nambu Provincial Police Agency: Usually, when you access a site, it says thousands of people are in the queue. (A direct link) is a program that pulls up the seat selection screen immediately, as if cutting in line. It allows you to book tickets faster than others.]

Tickets obtained this way were resold at prices ranging from 1.5 to 5 times the original cost. One office worker in his 30s sold 6,000 tickets over the course of a year, pocketing 390 million won.

The police stated that they are working with ticket reservation operators to develop defensive measures against the macros and direct link programs used for such online queue-jumping.

"Take your hands off": Police raid PC bang and find office worker who 'raked in 400 million won' in one year (2026.07.08 8 News)

Reported by Yoo Soo-hwan | Written by Lee Se-young | Video edited by Park Na-young | Footage courtesy of Gyeonggi Nambu Provincial Police Agency | Produced by SBS Digital News
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