Zara Larsson and LANY color autumn nights with performances in Korea

Zara Larsson held her first solo concert in Seoul.

The performance, held on September 4 at Myeonghwa Live Hall in Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul, was prepared under the name ‘Midnight Sun Tour in Seoul’.

Larsson, who is from Sweden, stood on the Korean stage for the first time in 9 years since the Asia Song Festival in 2017, and the performance continued for two days until the 5th.

Larsson started with ‘Midnight Sun’ and then sang ‘Blue Moon’, ‘Can't Tame Her’, and ‘I Would Like’ in order. During the ‘Pretty Ugly’ stage, she shouted "I am pretty" in Korean and said, "There is no need to be bound by the thought that you always have to look pretty. Sometimes it is necessary to be a little ugly." For her representative song ‘Lush Life’, she called a female fan onto the stage to dance and sing together, and personally wrote the phrase ‘Korea for Zara’ on a white T-shirt with spray to give as a gift. In the latter half of the performance, she filled the stage for about 90 minutes by consecutively presenting a medley of ‘Crush’, ‘Symphony' (a collaboration with Clean Bandit), and ‘Midnight Sun Outro’.

Previously, on September 3, the American pop band LANY held a concert in Korea as part of their ‘Soft World Tour’ at KINTEX Exhibition Center 2 in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, and met approximately 8,500 fans.

LANY's Paul Klein appeared wearing a military jacket and jeans, delivering ‘Soft’, ‘Why’, and ‘Make Me Forget' in succession. He moved to a protruding stage set in the middle of the standing area to breathe closely with the audience, and also sang ‘DNA' and ‘Mean It' (a collaboration with Lauv). After the lights of mobile phones filled the venue, ‘Let Me Know' and ‘ILYSB' followed, and during the encore, he concluded the 2-hour performance with ‘Malibu Nights' and ‘XXL'. Paul Klein said, "Life is busy and there are countless places you could go tonight. But thank you so much for choosing to be with us," adding, "If you did not exist, we would not exist either."

Translated from the Korean original with AI. The Korean article was itself written with AI assistance. Read the original (Korean)