The Intellectual Property Police will seem at BLACKPINK‘s live performance website to strengthen safety towards individuals promoting counterfeit items.

On September 14, the Korean Intellectual Property Office introduced that they plan to patrol the finale performances of the BLACKPINK WORLD TOUR [BORN] to be held on the Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul on September 16 and 17.

Since final month, the Intellectual Property Police have been monitoring counterfeit BLACKPINK merchandise bought on-line and confirmed that there have been many inauthentic gadgets. Some counterfeit items had been produced by sellers not licensed to promote official merchandise, resembling Okay-Pop lightsticks offered by companies.

After amassing adequate info throughout the monitoring course of, the Intellectual Property Police performed in depth investigations into large-scale and routine sellers. They took measures resembling deleting posts and accounts of sellers who posted counterfeit product listings on-line.

They additionally found that these counterfeit merchandise had been often bought on the live performance venue on the day of the present. Therefore, they plan to observe the venue to stop fraudulent sellers.

The head of the Intellectual Property Police, Park Joo Yeon, expressed concern over the growing variety of pretend items that include the rising recognition of Okay-Pop.

As Okay-culture beneficial properties world recognition, there may be an growing variety of counterfeit items distributors making an attempt to revenue from it… We hope that via this crackdown, a tradition of respecting genuine items shall be established.

— Park Joo Yeon, head of the Intellectual Property Police

These upcoming BLACKPINK live shows in Seoul will mark the top of their 64-concert journey as they toured 34 cities worldwide over the previous 11 months. It may even be their first efficiency in Korea after a few 12 months since October final 12 months.

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