tics.guide explains how to book tickets in Korea — concerts, musicals and sports — for people who are working out the process rather than the show. Korean ticketing sites are built around Korean residents, so the hard part from abroad is usually the sign-up screen. This site works through that screen by screen.
Who writes this
This site is written and maintained under the name TICS, independently of the platforms it covers. That independence is also why every page names its source and carries the date it was checked — you should not have to take our word for anything.
It exists because the operators’ own English pages stop at the point where the trouble starts. They will tell you that a booking can be cancelled; they will not tell you which screen ends it, whose name the card has to be in, or what happens when the passport you scanned does not match the name on the ticket. Those are the questions we answer.
If something here is wrong, there is a real person at the other end of the contact page who reads it and corrects the page. See Corrections below for what makes that fast.
How these pages are written
Each topic is split by stage rather than crammed into one page: before you book (account, identity check, payment method), booking and payment (what you choose on each screen), and cancel and refund (deadlines, fees, timing). Putting all of it on one page buries the part you actually came for.
Where a screen matters, we show it as well as describe it. Booking is something you follow, not something you read.
How we handle evidence
- Primary sources only. We quote the platform’s own published terms and help pages, statutes, and Korean public bodies. We do not build a page out of other blogs or forum posts.
- Every screen and fee carries the date we checked it. Statutes change every few years; platform screens and fees change without notice. A screen description with no date stops being true the following month.
- If we could not confirm a value, we do not print it. Where a number depends on the specific show or platform, we say what it depends on instead of inventing a range.
- We do not copy listings. Event calendars and ticket-open schedules belong to the platforms that publish them. We explain how to read those listings.
What this site does not do
We are not affiliated with any ticketing platform, and we do not sell, resell or broker tickets. We do not cover automated purchasing, queue circumvention, identity workarounds, accounts opened in someone else’s name, or ticket resale. Using a macro program to buy and resell admission tickets is prohibited under Korean law.
We also do not promise that preparation gets you a seat. What these pages answer is what the official route asks of you — no further.
Corrections
If a platform’s rules or screens have changed, or something here is wrong, tell us and we will check the source, correct the page, and restamp the date on it.