KATSEYE’s Seoul Concert: Nearly Half of Standing Tickets Still Unsold

Tickets are on sale for KATSEYE's first solo concert in South Korea, but a large share of the seats has not sold.

About 48% of standing seats for the group's Feb. 4 show at KSPO DOME in Seoul's Olympic Park were still available as of the 15th, according to a check by a Korean news outlet. The concert starts at 8 p.m. KST.

The gap goes beyond the standing section. Apart from a few reserved sections near the front of the first level, at least 30% of seats in most sections had not sold.

The numbers began drawing attention online on the 14th, on X and other platforms. One user posted screenshots of the unsold seats with the caption "KATSEYE struggling to sell even half the tickets at a Korean venue ahead of first Korean concert." The post passed 90,000 views within a day.

Many of the replies came from users in North America, and a lot of them shrugged it off. Their comments ran along the lines of "Isn't this a group localized for the U.S.? If it sells well in America, that's enough."

"It's not like they've never sold out anywhere else, so it doesn't matter," one fan wrote.

Others were less forgiving. "I don't understand why they're holding a solo concert in Korea when they barely have any fans there," another fan wrote.

KATSEYE announced the Asia and Oceania dates of "THE WILD WORLD TOUR" last month through its official social media accounts and the fan platform Weverse. The group will play 11 cities, including Seoul, from January to March next year.

The run opens Jan. 27 in Yokohama, Japan. Shows follow in Manila, Philippines, on Jan. 29 and in Hong Kong on Feb. 1, before the Seoul stop on Feb. 4.

After Seoul, the tour heads to Cebu, Singapore, Bangkok and Taipei. The group then visits Melbourne and Sydney in Australia and closes the leg March 5 in Auckland, New Zealand.

Seoul sits right in the middle of that schedule. How the remaining seats fill over the next few months will show how much pull a group built with the American market in mind has in K-POP's home country.