It's so hard to gather even one true fan

Nowadays, there are more people taking a hiatus from fandoms than there were at previous concerts.
Every day, YouTube is overflowing with content from various teams, and watching it is free.
Becoming a hardcore fan who regularly invests actual money is harder than one might think.
This is a review from someone who used to be a fan of something else but just stopped, and I think I belong to that category too.


A friend must have shown them this after going to their own concert.

I like them, but I'm just someone with casual interest who wouldn't go that far.
Wanting to scream along is half a fan's instinct, but I'm just not there yet.
I don't even know what that screaming means or why they do it.

If you fail at ticketing, you have to buy transferred tickets.
For some, transferred tickets are at face value,
and some end up being sold below face value right before the date.
For others, standing tickets are at face value or +10~20, while for some, it's several tens to +100~300; it all varies.
Right now, I just don't want to pay extra to watch.

I refused to pay extra for the Seoul concert, so I didn't go.
Instead, after seeing the reviews and short clips of the venue my friend showed me, I started looking into overseas concerts again.
Using the excuse that flight tickets + reasonable face value for an overseas concert might be cheaper, I ended up going to Japan.

In the end, I got a transferred ticket in Japan, but the person transferring it didn't pick up the phone.
To explain, I had to receive their ticket to normalize it so it becomes my own ticket (currently it's a temporary ticket).

Eventually, it was resolved, and I was able to watch the performance at the venue.

Seriously, in Japan, there are no screen doors.

If you don't know the way, if you follow local fans or older Chinese fans, you'll find the bus routes or shortcuts to the venue.
Here, if you follow the hardcore fans in Japan...



I'm talking about why concerts have become so expensive and why these scalped tickets exist.
I'm talking about the reality where the form and performance skills are different from the groups I used to follow for a long time, and the corresponding value of the price paid.

Compared to the idols I used to watch, it's not just a slight increase in prices; the relative deviation is severe.
Some still have tickets for 60,000~90,000 won.
The tickets are at that price, and they release a small amount of goods that aren't expensive.
I was going to go starting from the Seoul concert but couldn't, and wondering if this is right,
I followed along to check and now I'm speaking out.