Scalpers Eye 500% Gains as Ohtani Tickets Pass $3,000 for Seoul

Want to see Shohei Ohtani’s debut with the Los Angeles Dodgers in Seoul next week? It could cost you more than 4 million won ($3,035) — five times face value — plus land you with an unusual seatmate.

Tickets to the six games in the Seoul Series — two regular-season Major League Baseball games between the Dodgers and the San Diego Padres, plus four exhibition games with Korean teams — were originally sold only on Coupang Play, a streaming unit of US-listed online retailer Coupang Inc. To deter scalpers, the service allowed its members to buy no more than two tickets and to show ID to attend the game.