Super junior’s Jakarta Concert 17,000 Tickets Sold Out, Fans Pass Out

Several thousands of people gathered early Saturday morning at the Twin Plaza Hotel, Jakarta causing traffic jam in the area. The large crowds of people are K-Pop fans who have gathered in the early morning to stand in line to purchase tickets for Super Junior ‘Super Show 4’ concerts.

The Super Junior tickets for April 28 and 29 at Mata Elang International Stadium are priced from 500,000 Rp to 1,700,000 Rp. Even though prices were a bit higher considering the local income still there was a long line of waiting outside for their turn. There were even 12 people that passed out while waiting in line which caused even police officers to be dispatched on scene requesting to the hotel management to move ticket sales inside the hotel lobby, according to Jakarta Globe.

There were still hundreds of fans demanding for more tickets, although 17,000 tickets were completely sold out by 3PM. The reasons fans were more angered was due to scalpers. Each person was only allowed to purchase a limit of four tickets and scalpers were offering tickets at double the cost of original ticket.

As dissatisfied fans expressed their complaints event promoter ShowMaxx Entertainment issued an official apology statement. However due to the ‘high demand’ and popularity of Super Junior concert among fans it seems the number of scalpers are not likely to decrease.

Unlike other Southeast Asian countries, Indonesia has higher popularity of K-Pop rather than Korea dramas. They have even recently begun their own K-Pop audition program on air.

Indosiar started to air ‘Galaxy Superstar’ as a joint collaboration between Korea and Indonesia since February. The program started with over 10,000 participants in five major cities all over Indonesia.