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[Central News Agency] The Ministry of Culture launched a law amendment to severely punish scalpers who maliciously speculate on ticket prices. The Sports Administration is expected to follow suit. However, currently Taiwan's two major professional basketball teams, PLG and T1, have not been released for the time being, except for the "Warcraft effect" that occurred at the end of last year. There is no case of scalpers speculating on fares.

South Korea’s popular girl group BLACKPINK performed at the Kaohsiung World Games Stadium in March this year. 45,000 tickets were sold out in two days, and scalpers’ tickets were even fired to 400,000 yuan, attracting attention.

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The Ministry of Culture has decided to amend the law to eliminate scalpers, and Lin Zhehong, deputy director of the Sports Department, also emphasized in his answer in the Legislative Yuan: "We will add provisions to the "Sports Industry Development Regulations" with reference to the draft amendment to the Cultural and Creative Law. Those who sell more than the face value or price, A fine of 10 to 50 times the face value shall be imposed.”

The main ticket-selling events in Taiwan's sports world are the T1 Professional Basketball League and P. LEAGUE+, as well as the Chinese Professional Baseball League.

Among them, the ticketing of PLG is handled by each team itself, so the league will not intervene.

According to PLG team personnel privately revealed that each team will fight 8 times this season, fans have many choices, and the number of times the team will fill the stadium this season will not be too exaggerated. Watching the game, it is rare to hear of scalper ticket sales with exaggerated ticket prices. Most of them are fans who bought tickets first and were unable to attend, and resold them on the Internet by themselves.

Due to the large number of domestic professional basketball games and the long season, unlike concerts that are held in a short period of time, most fans hold the mentality of "If you don't buy this one, just buy the next one", and rarely appear The situation of buying scalper tickets with a lot of money to enter the venue.

Even if Jeremy Lin joined the PLG Kaohsiung Steelers in February this year, his tickets for the first game were sold out for nearly a week before they were almost sold out. Naturally, there will be no scalpers grabbing tickets.

As for the T1 Professional Basketball League Secretary-General Zhang Shuren revealed: "I haven't heard of any obvious hype of scalpers this season, and we may discuss it with the team in the future."

It's just that last year "Warcraft" Howard just joined T1 Taoyuan Clouded Leopards for the first 4 home games. Tickets were indeed hard to come by, and there were also some small numbers of scalpers on the Internet.

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