With the emergence of expectations that Korea may make it into the second round people wanting tickets for South Korea-Poland match have increased explosively, and as a result ticket touts are charging two to three times the face value of admission tickets.

A salary man named Kim wanting to buy a W60,000 paid W160,000 for his four-year-old son to watch the game with him, and said all of a sudden people he knew were trying to get tickets for the "once in a life time" match.

A worker named Ha in Busan said he had to surf World Cup ticket sites on the Internet pressed by his seniors. According to Ha, W100,000 tickets for South Korea against Poland are being traded at W200,000 to W300,000. On the Internet, he said, there are seven sites for World Cup tickets alone wherein several thousands of people have posted messages looking for tickets.

(Youm Kang-su, ksyoum@chosun.com )