Can riize’s international presence ever bounce back from the Seunghan situation?

Sep 28, 2025

I was on ticketmaster and saw that riize were going on tour and out of curiosity checked what the ticket situation looked like for some of their north american stops and despite being small venues a lot of tickets were still available.

I know in general this year has been pretty rough for kpop concert sales and even bigger groups like txt were struggling to fill out some of their venues but considering this is riize’s first tour in the US and the venues are not arenas I was shocked to see so many unsold seats.

I used to follow them pretty closely during their debut era up till maybe impossible and then gradually lost interest once i realized how sm was handling the seunghan situation and ik they lost a significant amount of their western fanbase because of it but i was wondering since it has been a while since he left if theyve been able to rebuild some of that fanbase?

Is there any way for them to bounce back or are they basically just going to focus on the asian market?

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