KARA’s Macau concert, scheduled for November 28, has been cancelled just 19 days before showtime, leaving fans who booked flights and hotels to absorb the cost themselves.
Broadway Macau announced the cancellation on November 9 through its official Weibo account, saying it was acting on notice from the organizer, Shanghai Ruiyang Culture Communication Co. The show, billed as “Once Again · Reunion Macau,” was set for 7 p.m. on November 28. General ticket sales had only begun on October 28, meaning the cancellation came just 12 days after tickets went on sale.
The venue said all tickets and paid perk packages will be refunded in full, automatically returned to the original payment method, with no application or fee required. But the same announcement drew a hard line on travel costs. “Personal travel expenses such as flights and hotels booked directly by audience members cannot be compensated,” Broadway Macau said, leaving fans to bear cancellation fees depending on the terms of their own bookings.
The show had been planned as a roughly 100-minute performance, with paid perks including one-on-one signing sessions and photo opportunities with the members. All of that is now off the table. No reason for the cancellation was given in the announcement, and no replacement date was mentioned.
This is the second time this year that an overseas KARA date has fallen through — and the second time fans have been told their travel costs are their own problem. In May, Japanese organizer HUB JAPAN postponed the group’s four fan-meeting shows at Tokyo’s Toyota Arena Tokyo, originally set for July 4 and 5, saying a postponement was unavoidable to deliver a more stable setting and a more polished show. The following day, the event’s official website announced that transport, accommodation and cancellation fees — flights, Shinkansen fares and hotel costs included — would not be compensated.
The Japan dates were later reworked as a fan concert at Yokohama Buntai on October 23 and 24, but the original July tickets could not be carried over, and a separate refund process was carried out. The Macau cancellation now repeats that pattern: a last-minute change, a full ticket refund, and no help for fans who had already paid to get there.
For now, there is no word on whether the Macau show will be rescheduled, and fans holding non-refundable travel bookings are left to sort out the costs on their own.
