18th FINA World Championships Gwangju 2019 Ticket

tickets are sold at the same price as those sold in Korea.

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   ☞ Unfortunately there is no admission discount based on the place of residence. However, tickets not sold during the online ticket sales period will be sold at the on-site box office. And we believe those residing at hosting city will have easier accessibility to the tickets. The residents will enjoy the benefit of being able to enjoy the festive atmosphere of the events and competitions in the hosting city than in other cities.

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 ☞ As the opening ceremony will be held at the world-class level where the entire historical, natural and cultural competitive edge of the hosting nation and city are assembled to be shared by not only hosting nationals but also all the people around the globe. We have set the price for each grade differently as we expect that S grade tickets would mainly sold by FINA family, sponsor owner, directors of related organization and partner company owners. A grade tickets are expected to be sold to key employees of organizations and companies and B grade is expected to be sold to general audience.

    - Comparing the ticket price to that of recently held Incheon Asian Games Opening Ceremony as well as to the tickets for the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games, it is priced at a very low level.

     ☞ Ticket discounts are applied to the opening and closing ceremonies and seats of all competitions in order to equally offer the benefits to discounts advance bookers.

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    ☞ The lowest tickets would be B seats for morning preliminary round for swimming, B seats for morning preliminary round for diving, A seats for open water held in the morning time, A seats for high diving preliminary held in the afternoon, A seats for artistic preliminary held in the morning and A seats for water polo preliminary in the morning.

There would be more sessions that spectators enjoy at below 10,000 KRW if we take into account those who receive discounts.

  ☞ Water polo, as a traditional major European sporting event, has recently gained its popularity also in Korea, China and Japan and is expected to show strong ticket power from overseas spectators. As a reference, the tickets for water polo game during previous championships held in Budapest Hungary were sold widely in neighboring European countries.

  ☞ In addition, it is expected to gain more attention and interest from audiences as we would make our best efforts to compose a single team of both south and north Korea before the actual competition begins. As classified as a popular sport, the price is set higher than other events.

 ☞ The price for swimming varies for each session and the seating grade.

      There are various sessions ranging from male/ female freestyle, breaststroke, backstroke, and butterfly (50m ~ 1500m) for individual or group px-x-layers. Ticket prices are S seats:30,000 KRW, A seats:20,000 KRW, B seats:10,000 KRW for preliminaries; and as for semi-finals, S seats: 60,000 KRW, A seats:40,000 KRW, B seats: 20,000 KRW; and for Finals S seats:70,000 KRW, A seats: 50,000 KRW, B seats: 30,000 KRW.

    ☞ Diving is divided into male/female individual, coed match, and team play and price ranges from the lowest of 10,000 KRW for preliminary B seats to 70,000 KRW for S seats in the final game.

    ☞  Tickets for synchronized swimming are distributed from 10,000 to 70,000 KRW. For more information, 

please refer to the price listed on the official ticketing website.

 ☞ FINA World Aquatics Championships is a popular sport event that is held for the first time in Korea as a swimming event and has the second highest gold medals and dividend following the athletics of the summer Olympic Games. It is indeed a mega-sized once-in-a-lifetime sporting event held in Korea. 

      Comparing with the ticket price for many concerts or large-scale sports event held in Korea, the price of this mega size sporting event is quite reasonable. Also, if there weren’t any expensive tickets to be sold, it will be difficult to offer a variety of customized promotions with the tickets.

    - Refer to below standards for setting the ticket price and various domestic sports tournaments/concert ticket prices

    ※ Note : Ticket price for various domestic sports events

   ☞ Tickets for the opening ceremony are categorized into three grades: S, A, and B. The main seating grade, B is 40,000 KRW, A is 90,000 KRW, S is 150,000 KRW and tickets for the closing ceremony will not be sold but operated by invitation. 

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   ☞ Ticket prices vary by game, seats, and sessions.

     Ticket prices start at a minimum of 10,000 KRW and the highest price is 70,000 KRW for regular competition and 150,000 KRW for the opening ceremony event. 50% of entire tickets is less than KRW 30,000, and the average price of all events including opening ceremonies is set at 20,000 KRW. Tickets for each competition and session can be viewed at the 2019 Gwangju World Championships ticket website in more details.