EXO Fans Tune Up

That show is an upcoming EXO concert, which was expected to sell out immediately.

According to K-pop fan site Allkpop, the practice was brought to general attention by a fan who noticed the purchases and subsequent cancellations for the Falling Into Jazz Wine concert, an annual event that takes place in the southern city of Busan.

The organizer announced Jan. 21 on the event’s Facebook page that Falling Into Jazz Wine had already sold “the majority of tickets available” at various online ticketing agencies, despite the fact that the concert would not happen for months. But the next day the organizer wrote that most of the tickets that had been sold the day before had already been canceled and blamed EXO-L diehards, though the person writing the post didn’t specify how he knew it was them.

Apparently, EXO fans have done this before and the method is known by organizers in Korea, though usually fans target other idol groups’ concerts.

EXO concerts are sold through specific ticketing agencies, leading fans to test out the purchasing system beforehand. Tickets for the EXO concert were supposed to go on sale Jan. 21 at 8 a.m., and many of the tickets for the jazz concert were purchased from the same website at 7:30 a.m.

Ironically, the EXO sale had to be postponed for a week because the ticket service’s server was down for the initial sales period for the jazz concert, presumably because EXO-Ls had overloaded the system.