My friend and I are visiting Seoul with the intent to watch ALS live, and luckily, the dates lined up well—so we’ll be there for the second week of Round 24.

We’ve read about the difficulties other foreigners have had getting tickets, so we decided to test the waters and tried buying tickets for the first week (which opened on the 20th), but we were unsuccessful.

Ticketlink Global only accepts payment through PAYCO, which appears to require a Korean phone number and Korean ID. When we tried paying with a credit card, we got the message: “The terminal is not eligible for service.”

Have any foreigners managed to get around this PAYCO issue? Or is there someone in Seoul who would be willing to help us out—in exchange for some good Czech beer?