| Artist | Tour | Tickets | Shows/Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| PSY | Summer Swag 2024 | 389k | 15 (2024) |
| PSY | Summer Swag 2023 | 387k | 14 (2023) |
| Lim Young Woong | Im Hero 2 | 347k | 27 (2025-26) |
| PSY | Summer Swag 2025 | 338k | 16 (2025) |
| PSY | Summer Swag 2026 | 328k | 14 (2026) |
| Lim Young Woong | Im Hero Tour | 313k | 23 (2023-24) |
| PSY | Summer Swag 2022 | 306k | 10 (2022) |
| Lim Young Woong | National Arena Tour | 235k | 26 (2022) |
| BTS | ARIRANG Tour | 234k | 5 (2026) |
| BTS | Love Yourself | 215k | 5 (2018-19) |
| Day6 | Forever Young | 195k | 17 (2024-25) |
| Day6 | The Decade | 190k | 13 (2025-26) |
| Seventeen | Follow | 162k | 6 (2023-24) |
| IU | HEREH Tour | 149k | 6 (2024) |
| EXO | Exo Planet 5 – Exploration | 128k | 9 (2019) |
| NCT Dream | Dream Show 4 | 122k | 9 (2025-26) |
| G-Dragon | Übermensch Tour | 117k | 5 (2025) |
| NCT Dream | Dream Show 3 | 112k | 6 (2024) |
| BigBang | XX: Cosmos Tour | 108k | 3 (2026) |
| Lim Young Woong | RE:CITAL | 106k | 6 (2024-25) |
| Park Hyo Shin | Live A&E | 96k | 3 (2026) |
| Seventeen | New_ World | 95k | 4 (2025-26) |
| Stray Kids | Dominate | 93k | 6 (2024-25) |
| NCT Dream | Dream Show 2 | 92k | 5 (2022-23) |
| Cho Yong Pil | National Tour | 91k | 10 (2025-26) |
| J-Hope | Hope on the Stage | 90k | 5 (2025) |
| TXT | Act: Promise | 88k | 9 (2024-25) |
| Young Tak | TAK SHOW | 87k | 19 (2022) |
| IU | The Golden Hour | 79k | 2 (2022) |
| Blackpink | Deadline | 75k | 2 (2025) |
| Young Tak | TAK SHOW 2 | 74k | 17 (2023-24) |
| g.o.d | Masterpiece | 73k | 7 (2023) |
| Super Junior | Super Show 10 | 73k | 6 (2025-26) |
| Young Tak | TAK SHOW 3 | 71k | 19 (2024-25) |
| Jin | RunSeokjin Ep. | 68k | 6 (2025) |
The highest average tickets per show are:
- 47k – BTS ARIRANG Tour
- 43k – BTS Love Yourself Tour
- 40k – IU The Golden Hour
- 38k – Blackpink Deadline Tour
- 36k – BigBang XX: Cosmos Tour
- 32k – Park Hyo Shin Live A&E
- 31k – PSY Summer Swag 2022
- 28k – PSY Summer Swag 2023
- 27k – Seventeen Follow Tour
- 26k – PSY Summer Swag 2024
PSY is the only artist here going on entirely stadium-sized national tours, the only other tour on this list to be held in a stadium outside of the greater Seoul area is ARIRANG in Busan.
BTS have the only tours in the top 10 with single digit shows, and by the end of the ARIRANG tour they could easily have the highest attendance in South Korea ever assuming they end their tour in Seoul as they usually do (hopefully the Olympic Stadium will be reopened by then).
Female artists are also majorly under-represented, one of the reasons is the lack of female artists with established fandoms (IU in 2019 sold 52k tickets from 6 shows in Korea, the same year BTS and EXO were both selling over 100k), another is very few of them undertake extensive arena tours in Korea (they mainly do national theatre tours in 2-3k venues: trot singer Song Ga-in’s 16 shows in 2022 sold 38k tickets), additionally viral songs contribute very little to actual concert attendance (Younha’s 9 show Growth Theory tour sold only 40k tickets even with 6 KSPO Dome shows and one of the biggest songs of the year).
The next female artists would be Twice (This is For Tour: 64k tickets from 5 shows) and Blackpink again (55k from 4 Born Pink shows).
I chose to only include concerts that KOPIS tracked ticket sales for (mainly from mid-2019) and shows that were reported by an outside source, before then the only attendance numbers available were given to the media by companies and these were very often exaggerated and could not be verified without the official boxscores being reported. So for example, Exo’s 2016 tour was not included even though media reported a combined attendance of 154k for the 8 shows, since this number could not be verified.
To demonstrate let’s look at BTS’s Wings tour: media reported 100k attendance from 5 shows at Gocheok Sky Dome, meanwhile the highest single day attendance reported by KOPIS at the venue is 18.6k and by Billboard is 17.7k. BTS may have sold 20k tickets per show, but more likely media just rounded up and thus inflated the numbers, the actual attendance was probably closer to 85-90k.
If any of you are interested in the ticket sales for other artists just comment, I collected data for dozens of artists to make this list so I’ll probably have them in my spreadsheet already.
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