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Seoul's Jamsil Baseball Stadium is fading into history after this professional baseball season. As a result, even greater attention is focused on next week's final Jamsil derby match between the Doosan Bears and the LG Twins. However, fans are left feeling disillusioned as scalped tickets for the game are being traded at prices reaching up to 15 times their face value.

Reporter Jeong Jiyeon has the details.

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Having opened alongside the launch of professional baseball in 1982, Seoul's Jamsil Baseball Stadium will be demolished this coming December, leaving behind 45 years of memories.

Scheduled to be reborn as a dome stadium in 2032, massive attention is focused on the regular season's final home matchup between Doosan and LG, set to take place on the 7th, particularly among the two teams' home fans.

Ticket reservation competition, which began at 11:00 AM on September 30, was far more fierce than usual.

[Baseball Fan: Usually, I often get in around the 4,000th queue number, but even though I got in around the 3,000th number this time, I failed to get tickets, which is disappointing.]

What left baseball fans who failed to secure tickets even more disheartened were the scalped tickets that flooded ticket trading platforms right after reservations opened.

Within less than an hour, dozens of sales listings appeared, and tickets for the "Orange Zone" near the cheering section commanded premiums reaching up to 15 times the face value of 18,000 won.

Reports of online illegal ticket scalping for professional sports are rapidly increasing every year.

Last year, reports exceeded 40,000 cases, surging more than fivefold over a three-year span.

Recently, trickery has also emerged, such as selling a baseball player's photo for hundreds of thousands of won while offering game tickets as a complimentary gift.

[Baseball Fan: There seems to be an exceptionally high number of scalped tickets on special days. This is Jamsil Stadium's final year. I wanted to watch the last game together....]

With the law strengthened last August in response to the growing volume of illegal ticket trading, ticket trading platforms are now obligated to establish prevention systems.

While platforms state that they are "fulfilling measures according to the law through monitoring of abnormal and repeated transactions," they also appeal to realistic limitations, stating that they "do not have the authority to determine whether a ticket is scalped."

There are loud calls to swiftly supplement systems to block increasingly sophisticated ticket scalping so that tickets can be properly sold to genuine spectators.

(Video Editing: Park Chunbae | VJ: Lee Junyoung | Design: Choi Jaeyoung, Seo Seunghyun)