ILLIT LIVE ‘PRESS START♥’ ENCORE in KOREA is scheduled to take place at Inspire Arena on October 17 and 18.
According to the original community post, the ticket purchase limit was changed from one ticket per person to two, while additional canceled seats had also become available.
Screenshots of the ticketing interface showed seats still available across multiple sections, prompting discussion over the group’s concert demand and the choice of venue.
While some commenters questioned the size of ILLIT’s core concert-going fandom, others pointed to Inspire Arena’s location as a factor that may discourage some fans from attending.
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The sampled comments were largely critical or skeptical, with readers debating whether the remaining seats reflected weaker core-fandom demand or whether Inspire Arena’s location was discouraging attendance.
1. Olympic Hall would’ve been just right.
2. Their songs are good, their albums sell well, and they appeal to the general public, but if it’s like this, I guess their fandom just isn’t that strong.
3. The location is honestly too much. I wanted to go, but I don’t have the stamina to go all the way out to Inspire and back ă…
4. Then how are they selling hundreds of thousands of copies in first-week sales? No. 1 on the digital charts, high first-week sales, insane retweet numbers, but people don’t go to the concerts??? ă…‹ă…‹ă…‹
5. The fact that people are saying they can’t go because of the location itself makes it feel like there isn’t much of a core fandom. If it were your ultimate group, you’d go even if they held it on a deserted island...
6. So the core fandom is small... When a group has a lot of hardcore fans, they’ll find a way to go regardless. Inspire has good acoustics too, so they don’t really nitpick everything.
7. I didn’t think it would be this empty...
8. Stop blaming Inspire ă…‹ă…‹ Even celebrities from neighboring countries come and fill the place.
9. When HYBE was happily doing negative viral marketing against other idols over concert seat numbers, did they ever imagine this kind of future? The arrow they fired came back as one massive boomerang; but I’m genuinely curious how they misjudged demand this badly...
10. It feels like they booked Inspire when their actual drawing power was closer to Olympic Hall. For the concert demand forecast to be this far off, it feels less like they got it wrong and more like they didn’t even bother doing it.
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