Girl group Red Velvet to return with new album, fan concert in August

Girl group Red Velvet will return with a new album and a fan concert in August, its agency SM Entertainment announced on Monday.

The upcoming events mark the group’s first full-member activities in two years since the release of its seventh EP “Cosmic” in 2024.

While details of the new album have not yet been disclosed, the group unveiled a poster and schedule for its fan concert, titled “2026 Red Velvet Fan-Con <A Day in Red & Velvet>.”

The fan concert will take place at the Tiger Dome gymnasium at Korea University in northern Seoul at 6 p.m. on Aug. 1 and at 4 p.m. on Aug. 2.

The occasion will coincide with the group’s 12th anniversary since its debut on Aug. 1, 2014.

Tickets will be sold through Melon Ticket, with presales for domestic fan club members starting at 8 p.m. on Thursday. International fan club members will then be able to purchase tickets at 8 p.m. on June 22. General sales will open at 8 p.m. the next day.

Red Velvet is a five-person act known for experimental songs such as “Bad Boy” (2018), “Psycho” (2019) and “Cosmic” (2024). 

BY LEE SOO-JUNG [[email protected]]