At 3-star A hotels in front of the Gwangalli beach in Busan, the accommodation fee is 280,000 won per night for two adults until the last weekend of October, but on November 7, when the Busan Fireworks Festival is held, packages including breakfast and wine will rise to 800,000 won, nearly tripling the price, while high-rise rooms will be about four times more expensive at 1.1 million won. The Chuseok holiday has only just ended, and Busan's 'price war' is expected to intensify, starting with the opening of the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) on the 6th . With large-scale events continuing until the Busan Fireworks Festival on November 7, accommodation prices around venues like Haeundae and Gwangalli are soaring. Some places have delayed accepting reservations due to price controversies, and the Gwangalli I Hotel, which usually charges about 160,000 won on weekends, is not accepting room reservations as of November 7. An i Hotel representative said, "There is a lot of discussion about raising the accommodation fee during the fireworks festival, so reservations will be accepted starting in mid-October, one month before the event." ,,,People are getting smarter!! The 'overcharging accommodation' controversy in Busan arose during BTS's Busan concert last June,,, where reservations were unilaterally canceled and then resold at higher prices, damaging Busan's tourism image. Ahead of this BIFF and the fireworks festival, Busan City plans to send official notices to accommodations requesting restraint on overcharging and conduct intensive inspections, but even if accommodation fees rise several times compared to usual , it is not easy to sanction them. Under the current system, accommodation businesses display their own maximum prices, and if they charge below that, there is no solid basis for crackdown. If the law isn't amended , it's hard to crack down on overcharging. That's what they're saying???
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