The Olympic Stadium at Seoul will be used as a baseball stadium 2027-2031 - Seoul will have NO MAJOR VENUES until 2032

    The Koreans showed their complete disregard to KPop by designating the Olympic Stadium as the temporary stadium for Korean professional baseball, when its stadium, nearby, is remodeled 2027-2031.


    Worse, unlike Tokyo Dome which is only used by Yomiuri Giants , the Baseball Stadium is used by two teams, so even when one time is playing away, the other team is bound to be in there which means the stadium won't be vacant, which means no stadium concerts.


    We already know how the Korean soccer fans created a shitstorm by citing damages to the grasg a concert, as if anyone is giving a shit about Korean soccer league.


    And the Korean baseball fans show they don't give a shit about KPop by insisting to use the Olympic Stadium as their venue, instead of moving elsewhere to watch their only-known-to-Koreans baseball teams!


    Korean sports fans show their local leagues and the games only Koreans watch (both Korean local baseball and soccer leagues are non-entities as far as the world is concerned - Korean baseball beat Japan time to time till 2015 but has never won against JPN since then, and Korean soccer league is even worse) .


    Worse, the two Korean baseball teams which will play in the Olympic Stadium tend to do better in postseason, which in Korea ends in mid-November, which is too cold to have outdoor concerts by then.


    Who would have known that


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    This 2019 BTS concert at Seoul Olympic Stadium would have been the last full KPop concert held at there, until 2032, when Kim Seokjin would be 41 years old@!


    Whyknock's fury over the Koreans have no limits.


    Some people cited that the new baseball dome, built at Incheon (near the international airport), housing 40,000 maybe , might be an alternative.


    1. It is not in Seoul

    2. It is out of the way, which means the concert goers will hop into the airport, watch concert and hop out

    3. In practice it will only house 30,000 fans

    4. It is said it will be completed by 2028, which means 2027 will have no concert venue.


    Lee Jieun has NOT announced the plans for her concert at the soccer stadium, even though it is just 2 months away, thanks to Lim Youngwoong basically screwing up all the KPop acts who will do concerts there later


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    Lim Youngwoong harming KPop concerts at the Soccer stadium by not setting up seats on the ground, essentially telling other acts not to do so.
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    Before the concert of Lim Youngwoong at the soccer stadium, which is basically the only remaining stadium in Seoul now since the main stadium won't be usable till late 2025 (officially, which in Korean lingo means mid-2026) , he set up devices to the lawn at there.

    Last year, when the emergency Jamboree concert was held at there, Korean soccer fans complained that concerts harmed the lawns there.

    Frankly speaking, who outside of Korea gives two…
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    What he did basically was telling all KPop acts who want to do a concert at the soccer stadium to NOT USE the field, not put seats to the ground and so forth. A very, very harmful move which robs half of the reason doing a stadium tour.


    So, there will be no places for the major KPop acts to use for their largest concerts, thanks to what Lim Youngwoong did!


    Frankly speaking I don't care what happens to Korean sports. The attitude of the Korean sports fans is clear - they don't give a shit about KPop and they have to watch their only-for-Korea sports games.

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    They have Inspire Arena but that's for 15k if I remember we.


    And also CJ LiveCity should be done in 2025? At least those were the plans

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    Koreans don't care about K-Pop anymore because K-Pop no longer cares about Koreans (at least the ones in Korea, anyway). Why WOULD they care more about K-Pop than K-sports, which also continues to bring them glory on the international scale, while actually still caring about THEM, too?


    IMO, this is definitely very unfortunate for K-Pop, but definitely also very self-inflicted. Say "F U, I don't care about you anymore" to the Koreans, by trying to take the "'K' out of 'K-Pop'", and they will say "F U, I don't care about you anymore" back, too...


    Just like anyone else would. 🤷🏻‍♀️


    If anything, this is showing that K-Pop needs to start caring more about what Koreans like and want too again, at least a little bit, such as by not making title tracks in English only, or noise music only for the most part that usually appeals only to international fans, if they don't want to stunt their growth across the world, too.


    P.S. Although K-Pop idols themselves view it as a lifetime achievement or huge honor to perform in the biggest stadiums in Korea (even BTS many years ago for their Love Yourself World Tour), who internationally has, until now that it's been suddenly taken away, even really cared about how many tickets K-Pop can sell in Korea, at least for years now, unless that's the only country the artist can tour in? Even the MAMA Awards care the least about Korea now and gave them by far the worst and cheapest show last time they were hosted in their home country. Most international fans only are really only impressed by those who can tour in the US and Tokyo Dome now. And even Tokyo Dome isn't seen as big of an achievement anymore, since so many Kpop groups have done it by this point. If we want Korea to like K-Pop again, we international fans and the Kpop industry need to stop constantly saying "F U" to Koreans, too, especially since we Kpop fans apparently care SOOOO much about how racist they are to other people, yet almost never condemn it amongst ourselves whenever Kpop fans are racist to the Korean, Chinese, SEA, or Japanese people, as if they don't count as people, too!

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    Ehhh


    It's the same in Australia. Sports > concerts in the scheme of things


    Its a more consistent money bringer for the venue. Many stadiums are built for sports use FIRST, concerts and other uses are a secondary. Keeping a stadium available primarily for concerts probably means more downtime where it's not being utilised compared to frequent, regular sporting events

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    You guys are seriously entertaining whynot threads :meme-life-support:

    Anyways, this won't matter by 2026 SK is building a new stadium for concerts.

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    They have Inspire Arena but that's for 15k if I remember we.


    And also CJ LiveCity should be done in 2025? At least those were the plans

    All these bullshit places will be too small for internationally relevant acts, which means the Koreans can forget seeing world famous names because the Korean baseball and soccer fans have to watch their bush league teams.

    The Koreans voted IU over BTS


    showing how much they appreciated BTS' achievements


    All the sacrifices BTS did for Korea were in vain.

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    The Koreans voted IU over BTS


    showing how much they appreciated BTS' achievements


    All the sacrifices BTS did for Korea were in vain.

    It has nothing to do w/their personal feelings towards BTS, for whom they are extremely grateful and consider a national treasure and made an national cultural ambassadors and even dedicated an entire street in Busan entirely to, or to BTS's sacrifices, since everyone in Korea knows what BTS has accomplished for Korea's status on an global scale, and everything to do w/BTS being Westernized as fuck since inception, lol.


    It's because IU naturally appeals more to Koreans' cultural tastes than BTS both conceptually and musically- a pure beautiful innocent virginal (for most of her career) girl who makes beautiful ballads mostly entirely in Korean for most of her career, as opposed to Westernized hip hop gangster bad boys at debut from a then-tiny company nobody ever heard of before to eventually Westernized radio boys who's biggest song both in Korea and on a global scale is entirely in English.


    And there's nothing wrong with that. Both Eastern and Western tastes are valid and simply a matter of personal preference mostly based on where you happen to be born, raised, or lived in the world.


    IU simply dedicated her entire career to appealing to Koreans, and BTS did pretty much the opposite, with the exception of I NEED U & Spring Day, which are more beautiful and ballad-like songs- which btw happen to all be their most impactful songs in Korea other than Dynamite, which mostly happened to be such a huge song on a global scale that even Korea couldn't ignore it since they're also part of the world, and because BTS brought so much honor and international recognition to Korea that they all felt super proud to the point that it became the #1 song in Korea and every Korean knows their name.


    It's just that IU is more innately "Korean" in values, while BTS has always been about rebelling against Korean society, values, and standards.


    Even you would probably like IU more than BTS if you were Korean, since you obviously already do now, and obviously aren't Korean in heritage either. And personally I think there's nothing wrong with that either. Different strokes for different folks, after all.

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    Korea no longer holds major sporting events since its national teams suck.

    So what I been wondering for quite some time now.


    Given that you are by far the biggest racist xenophobic and Korea hating user on this whole forum - quite an achiement given the context…


    have you ever wondered what spending all your waking time on a forum focusing on Korean music (kpop)do to enhance your life? Like why are you here since you hate hate HATE anything Korean so much?

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    All these bullshit places will be too small for internationally relevant acts, which means the Koreans can forget seeing world famous names because the Korean baseball and soccer fans have to watch their bush league teams.

    it's more than 20k inside

    and 30-40k outside

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