KCON Japan has confirmed its line-up of performers for its upcoming three-day event in October.
Yesterday (August 30), the official KCON Japan Twitter account shared the second wave of performers for the three-day festival happening from October 14-16 at the Ariake Arena in Tokyo, Japan.
Performing artists include TXT, fromis_9 and Brave Girls, among others, in addition to the initial first wave of performers announced last week, which included groups like IVE, NewJeans and LE SSERAFIM.
The full second wave of performers announced are K-pop boybands ATEEZ, DKZ, TO1, ATBO and DKB, Japanese boybands INI and OCTPATH, as well as K-pop trio VIVIZ.
KCON 2022 JAPAN DAILY LINEUP✨
KCON 2022 JAPAN、楽しむ準備はできましたか？
Let's KCON💘*記載された日付はすべて現地時間基準です。
*出演者やイベント日程は事情によりキャンセルまたは変更される可能性があります。#KCON #KCONJAPAN #KCON2022JAPAN pic.twitter.com/2qElYpMtmM— KCON Japan (@kconjapan) August 30, 2022
Additionally, KCON Japan has revealed that former NU’EST member Hwang Min-hyun will be serving as MC for all three days of the K-pop festival.
❤️KCON 2022 JAPAN MC LINEUP💙
😍 Let's have a memorable time with 👉 @MINHYUN_PLEDIS#KCON #KCONJAPAN #KCON2022JAPAN #HWANGMINHYUN #황민현 pic.twitter.com/11envaoNOX
— KCON Japan (@kconjapan) August 30, 2022
The upcoming event marks KCON’s first full-fledged in-person festival in Japan since the beginning of the pandemic. It first returned to Tokyo in May 2022 with a special kick-off event called KCON 2022 Premiere, which was also held in Seoul, Los Angeles and Chicago.
KCON Japan 2022’s lineup is:
Day 1 (October 14)
INI
Kihyun (MONSTA X)
LE SSERAFIM
NMIXX
OCTPATH
TNX
TO1
VIVIZ
Day 2 (October 15)
ATBO
DKZ
fromis_9
IVE
JO1
NewJeans
TXT
Day 3 (October 16)
ATEEZ
Brave Girls
DKB
Jo Yu-ri
Kep1er
NiziU
TEMPEST
Earlier this month, KCON held its annual Los Angeles in-person event at the Los Angeles convention centre. In a four-star review of the festival, NME contributor Abby Webster praised performances by boybands Stray Kids and NCT Dream in particular.