The '2025 Hanteo Music Festival', previously postponed due to low ticket sales, has officially announced its rescheduled venue, its new lineup of artists, and information on ticketing.
According to the '2025 Hanteo Music Festival' on October 10 KST, the event will now take place from November 22-23 at the Inspire Arena in Incheon. 1st generation idol group H.O.T will headline both days, joined by TEEN TOP, fromis_9, and tripleS on day 1 and by 2AM, Solar of MAMAMOO, and Oh My Girl on day 2. The festival also previously emphasized that as headliners, H.O.T will perform a longer set of approximately 1-hour.
Tickets, ranging from 170,000 KRW (~ $119 USD) to 120,000 KST ($84 USD), will open via pre-sale on October 13 at 8 PM KST, and via general sale on October 15 at 8 PM KST. VVIP tickets are also accompanied by a special gift for H.O.T fans, as shown below.
Despite the venue's downsizing and the event's efforts to appeal to longtime H.O.T fans, the music festival is now facing backlash from Korean netizens over the "high prices" of tickets.
Some commented,
"What is with this terrible lineup..."
"Those prices for that lineup at that massive venue????"
"An hour of H.O.T per day kekekeke. Then obviously fans from the other fandoms won't want to go since their artists are only performing 2~3 songs max."
"This event does not understand K-Pop fandoms at all.."
"No one wants this.. the H.O.T fans want an intimate solo concert."
"It's obvious that they want to make money off of H.O.T fans, but for that, an hour stage per day is too little. And what about the other artists just being there like opening acts?"
"Just hold a fan meeting instead of involving all these other artists in an event that no one wants to go to."
"H.O.T fans aren't gonna pay those prices for this lol."
"If they really want to make this about H.O.T, they could have gotten a few more smaller 1st-gen acts to make it more coherent."
"The tickets are too expensive and Inspire is too far.. it's not worth it."
"Does H.O.T still have that many fans?? And even if they do, those fans are probably in their 40's and don't give a d**n about newer K-Pop idols??"
"For that tiny lineup, the ticket prices are too high."
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