Singer and musical actor Kim Junsu, known by his stage name XIA, will close out the year with an orchestral concert in Seoul, his agency Palmtree Island announced on November 9. The “2026 XIA Musical Concert with Orchestra Vol. 9” will run for three days, from December 18 to 20, at the Ticketlink Live Arena in Seoul’s Olympic Park, marking his first concert with an orchestra in about four years.
Palmtree Island confirmed the dates in its announcement, saying, “Kim Jun Su will hold the 2026 XIA Musical Concert with Orchestra Vol. 9 at TicketLINK Live Arena in Olympic Park, Seoul, for three days from December 18 to 20.” Tickets will be sold through NOL and Ticketlink, with a membership presale for his official fan club COCONUT beginning November 23 and general sales opening November 25 at 8:00 p.m. KST. An official trailer was released alongside the announcement, showing the silhouettes of musical characters Kim Junsu has played over the years before he pulls back a red curtain and walks toward the light as the words “SEE YOU THERE” appear on screen.
The confirmation ends several weeks of uncertainty around the year-end show. On October 28, Palmtree Island told fans that the concert was in doubt because of issues at the planned venue, explaining that procedures to resolve the matter were still underway and that it could not yet confirm whether the concert would be held. The agency said at the time that it would share an update as soon as the situation was settled, and the November 9 announcement delivers on that promise, with a venue now locked in.
The Musical Concert with Orchestra is a signature series for Kim Junsu, who first presented it in 2012. Each edition pairs key songs from the musicals he has starred in, known in the theater world as numbers, with a full live orchestra, bringing his stage work into the concert hall. The upcoming show will be the ninth in the series and the first since Vol. 8 in December 2022. According to the announcement, the setlist will draw on the musical repertoire he has built over the past four years, with the orchestra bringing numbers from those productions back to the stage.
The concert caps a busy year for Kim Junsu on two fronts. As a singer, he embarked on his sixth solo Asia tour, “GRAVITY,” which kicked off with three shows in Seoul in June and visited nine cities across Asia, and he also toured with Kim Jaejoong as the duo JX on their “CORE” tour. The “GRAVITY” tour supported his fifth full-length album of the same name, released in June, and followed a run of solo concerts that has kept him on stage for most of the year. On the musical stage, his performance in “Beetlejuice” earned him the first-ever acting award in the musical category at the 62nd Baeksang Arts Awards, one of South Korea’s most prestigious awards ceremonies, and he went on to appear in productions including “Dracula” and “Elisabeth.”
Kim Junsu debuted as a member of TVXQ and later redebuted as part of JYJ alongside Kim Jaejoong and Park Yoo-chun, building parallel careers as a recording artist and a musical actor. In November 2021 he founded his own agency, Palmtree Island, which he leads as CEO, and the orchestra concert series has remained one of his most personal projects, a year-end tradition that revisits the roles that defined each chapter of his stage career.
With the venue confirmed and the trailer out, attention now turns to ticketing. The COCONUT membership presale opens November 23, followed by general sales on November 25, and further details will be shared through Kim Junsu’s official channels and the ticketing platforms.
