Popular Group’s Fan Meeting Verification Process Hit With Huge Controversy

Recently, DAY6’s fan meeting has received massive backlash from fans and netizens online.

Previously, a fan’s tweet went viral after claiming they were denied entry after the staff demanded to check their ID.

Considering they never checked ID before, they showed their student ID, which didn’t seem to be enough for the staff. Things began to escalate as the fan requested that the police come to verify their identity.

DAY6 Fans Get Banned From Their Own “Fan Concert,” Police Involved

With this, a Korean online community post garnered over 70,000 views as netizens were baffled at their ticket sales announcement.

The OP felt that JYP was going overboard with the ID verification process.

“JYP Entertainment hosts the fan meeting, and identity verification is more rigorous than airport security, presidential election verification, and bank loan screening verification.

Whether it’s a concert or fan meetings, friends and family can buy tickets as gifts, but the system of verifying the identity of the ticket purchaser by checking the ID in person doesn’t make sense, considering one person can buy up to two tickets.

Plus, sharing documents containing personal information in the staff chat room without permission is illegal.

The fact that they weren’t allowed to enter even after the police confirmed their identity is seen as nothing more than bullying, proving that the organizers and security are above public authority.”

— OP

Netizens felt that this was going too far for a fan concert.

• “This is too much…”
• “They are taking it too far…”
• “They wouldn’t even go this far to meet the President.”
• “Why is the announcement notice so long…ridiculous.”
• “I can only see this as them bullying the fans.”
• “For those saying that other fandoms are like this too, even the concert from this month wasn’t like this, and I only checked the QR code. So, of course, we thought it would be the same this time…I can’t understand why they would hire all this staff to do this….”
• “It wouldn’t even be this hard to see the President make a speech…”