Shohei Ohtani MLB Seoul Series: Only Local Residents Will Be Able to Buy Tickets

Tickets for Major League Baseball’s Seoul Series — a much anticipated season-opener that pits new LA Dodgers Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto against Yu Darvish and Ha-seong Kim of the San Diego Padres — will go on sale Friday on Coupang Play, a streaming service of Coupang, one of Korea’s largest e-commerce companies.

But despite the feverish global and regional interest, fans outside of Korea will have a hard time getting tickets for the games on March 20 and 21. Buying on Coupang requires a monthly membership that’s limited to people with a Korean phone number and government-issued identification card.

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