Openings and revivals
New productions taking the stage and returning runs.
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Ticket openThe Helmet returns after four years, with 32 new performances on sale from 8 SeptemberThe Helmet, by writer Ji E-sun and director Kim Tae-hyoung, has returned for its first season in four years at the Hongik University Daehangno Art Center Small Theater. Tickets for 32 performances between 29 September and 11 October go on sale at 2pm on 8 September.
Ticket openPentagon reunite as a seven-piece for 101010, their 10th-anniversary tour, in Seoul this OctoberPentagon play Blue Square's Woori WON Banking Hall on 9 and 10 October for 101010, their tenth-anniversary world tour and their first full-group shows in three years. Tickets go on sale at 8pm on 8 September through NOL Interpark.
Ticket openKim Jae-joong and Kim Jun-su reunite as JX, opening their CORE tour in Incheon in OctoberKim Jae-joong and Kim Jun-su reunite as the unit JX for their 2026 tour concert CORE, opening with three shows at the Inspire Arena in Incheon on 9–11 October. Membership verification opens at 2pm on 7 September and general sale at 8pm on 11 September.
OpeningDolsoejeon opens 2 October at the National Jeongdong TheaterThe National Jeongdong Theater stages Dolsoejeon, an adults-only comedy musical folding the Greek myth of Eros and Psyche into a bawdy Joseon-era tale, from 2 to 15 October at its Cecil venue. All seats are 30,000 won, with a 30% early-booking discount through 9 September.
OpeningKang Eun-il's haegeum recital I Am Kim Young-jae, 20 September at the National Gugak CenterHaegeum player Kang Eun-il gives her 31st solo recital, I Am Kim Young-jae, at 17:00 on 20 September in Umyeondang Hall at the National Gugak Center. Kim Young-jae himself appears on the closing piece; all seats are 30,000 won.
OpeningSeoul Opera Ensemble's Viva Puccini gala marks the Turandot centenary on 2 OctoberSeoul Opera Ensemble presents the gala Viva Puccini at 19:30 on 2 October in Jangcheon Hall at Gwanglim Arts Center, marking the centenary of Turandot's premiere and the founding of the Korea Puccini Society. Tickets start at 50,000 won.
OpeningSIDance 2026 opens with the Asian premiere of Vandekeybus's VoidThe 29th Seoul International Dance Festival opened on 2 September at Gangdong Arts Center with the Asian premiere of Void, a new work by Belgian choreographer Wim Vandekeybus. The festival runs to 19 September with 31 works from eight countries across eight Seoul theatres.
CastingNew Korean musical Majesty announces full cast for October tryout runMajesty, a new Korean musical based on the self-declared Emperor Norton I, runs 25 October to 15 November at Woori Card Hall in NOL Theater Daehangno as a tryout premiere. Eom Ki-jun and Park Jae-yoon lead the announced cast.
CastingA Tale of Two Cities returns after 12 years with Kai, Shin Sung-rok and Ko Eun-sungThe musical A Tale of Two Cities comes back in a new Shownote production twelve years after its Korean premiere, running 11 November to 8 February 2027 at BBCH Hall, Gwanglim Arts Center, with Kai, Shin Sung-rok and Ko Eun-sung sharing Sydney Carton.
OpeningHai-Kyung Suh plays the Seoul Philharmonic, then Carnegie HallPianist Hai-Kyung Suh performs Rachmaninoff with the Seoul Philharmonic at the free Seoul Phil Park Concert on 19 September, then gives a 60th-anniversary solo recital at Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall, on 3 October.
OpeningSung Si-kyung's 'Ja, Oneureun' opens today, outdoors for the first timeSung Si-kyung's brand concert "2026 Sung Si-kyung with friends [Ja, Oneureun]" runs 5-6 September at the 88 Lawn Field in Seoul's Olympic Park. It is the first edition staged outdoors since the series began in 2022, with Yang Hee-eun, Gummy, Kim Jang-hoon and Indonesian singer Raisa on the bill.
OpeningSPYAIR take 'JUST LIKE THIS' overseas for the first time, at KINTEX todayJapanese rock band SPYAIR stage their open-air concert brand "JUST LIKE THIS" outside Japan for the first time, on 5 September at the rear plaza of KINTEX Exhibition Center 2. It is also the first Korean headline show fronted by new vocalist YOSUKE.