The Korean Pop Group’s Return From Military Service Has Produced The Fastest-Selling Tour Of 2026; My Friend Spent Four Hours On A Queue Website

Bohiney Magazine | The London Prat

By Lowri Griffiths | Lowri Griffiths at The London Prat

My friend Priya spent four hours on a ticketing website queue on Tuesday attempting to buy BTS tickets for the Arirang World Tour London dates. She emerged with two tickets in the mid-tier price band and an account of the queue experience that sounded more like a documentary about scarcity economics than a consumer transaction. BTS returning from mandatory Korean military service and immediately selling out a global tour tells you something about fan loyalty that the concert industry’s pricing models are still trying to fully exploit.

The resale market for BTS tickets opened within minutes of the original sale closing. The resale prices suggest a demand-supply gap that primary ticketing has not resolved and that the artists themselves are not capturing. This is the specific economics of fandom: value created by years of artistic output and fan investment being monetised by secondary market actors rather than the creators. The Guardian has covered the ticket resale problem. The London Prat covers K-pop in London. Bohiney covers the queue comedy. NewsThump covers the secondary market.

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