Netizens React To How Much A K-Pop Fan Made After Selling Photo Cards Online For A Week

With K-Pop becoming a global industry, more fans are joining the photo card phenomenon. In K-Pop, albums and events come with various photo cards, and many fans have become hooked on collecting all of them!

An online community post gained attention about a K-Pop fan who revealed how much they made by selling photo cards they had accumulated over the years through the Phocamarket app.

OP’s screenshot of money made from selling photo cards. | Instiz

I organized and sold the photo cards that I’ve accumulated over the years through the Phocamarket app, and I sold them for as little as 500 KRW ($~0.37 USD) to 130,000 KRW ($~95.33 USD). And in just one week I made over 1,000,000 KRW ($~733.34 USD). Since I’m just getting back the money I spent on the album, it’s nice to get money in return for things that I had just laying around. This is my money to buy chicken today.

In the screenshot of their earnings, they confirmed making over 1,000,000 KRW in just a week.

Current cash amount | Instiz

“My wallet

Current cash amount

1,102,300 KRW ($~808.32 USD)”

Netizens were shocked at well the photo cards sold, with many commenting they would try to sell theirs too.

Netizen comments | Instiz Netizen comments | Instiz

• “Wow that’s crazy. I should send mine in too. Did you have any photo cards sent back? Is the inspection process difficult?”
• “About half of mine were returned. I sent 1000 photo cards and had 482 of them returned to me. I didn’t take the time to check if they had any flaws so that’s probably a lot of them were sent back to me.”
• “I’ve never done this before, do I have to set a price for each one? It’s hard to set a price when selling on Twitter.”
• “I have to set a price for each one! But they show you how much the photo card was sold for recently on the app.”
• “Wow I threw all mine away. Crazy.”
• “Ah what a waste. I had a hard time organizing and packing everything.”
• “Wow congrats! I should make some time and send mine, too.”
• “Today is that day. Organize them and send them! I told myself I would do it last year, and I’m finally sending them in now.”
• “Wow what photo card cost 130,000 KRW? So curious.”
• “A Subk photo card! I didn’t know the price had increased for this either.”

Have you sold photo cards before? Is it worth it?