K-pop world tours

A K-pop world tour is announced long before it is real. A group reveals a name, a poster and a headline number — eighty-eight shows, thirty-four cities — and the actual dates arrive in waves over the following year, region by region, as venues are booked and local promoters come on board. The gap between the announcement and the confirmed itinerary is where most of the confusion lives, and it is the thing these pages try to make legible.

Each tour page carries the announced totals and the itinerary side by side, and says plainly how many of the announced dates we have actually confirmed against a source. Below that: the legs, the supporting release, the previous tour by the same act, and every confirmed date with its city and venue. The status is worked out from the dates themselves rather than stored, so a tour that has finished says so without anyone having to remember to update it.

Dates move, venues change and legs get added. We list what has been confirmed rather than what has been floated, so an itinerary here will often be shorter than the number the announcement promised — that is the point, not an omission. Check the official ticketing page before booking anything.