Just as tickets went on sale for KCON 2024 in Los Angeles, the K-pop mega festival and convention declared a precise shock visitor to its lineup as effectively as 3 noteworthy names as hosts.

For its to commence with KCON Los Angeles provided that to commence with hitting its stage in 2017, NCT 127 has been declared as section of a “special lineup” for the fest, joining earlier introduced stars like ZICO, ENHYPEN, P1Harmony, NMIXX, A.C.E and far far more. A graphic asserting the group’s involvement featured 7 members of the group — Johnny, Yuta, Doyoung, Jaehyun, Jungwoo, Mark and Haechan — as chief Taeyong started satisfying his obligatory South Korean army service in March, and Taeil was declared to enlist this 12 months as adequately and could commence his help by the July efficiency.

KCON also uncovered the 3 hosts that will retain MC responsibilities for the reside taping of M Countdown, the weekly remain efficiency application on the K-pop audio channel Mnet, which generally goes abroad for remain tapings.

Rowoon, the Korean-drama actor Rowoon and earlier member of boy band SF9, will host Friday, July 26, marking his initial visual look at KCON LA due to the reality 2019. Solo star Jeon Somi is the M Countdown host for Saturday, July 27, to mark her really lengthy-awaited return to L.A. and initially time once again at KCON thinking of the reality that 2016 when she initially carried out with her earlier female group, I.O.I. Last but not least, main K-drama actor Kim Soo Hyun will host on Sunday, June 28.

Notably, KCON’s central featuring of stars like Kim Soo Hyun and Rowoon marks a move once again in path of that consists of a lot far more actors from Korea as it did in earlier iterations for the duration of the ’10s in spite of the prominence of K-dramas and Korean cinema, arguably increasing a lot far more common in the submit-pandemic yrs.

Tickets for KCON’s common onsale opened this afternoon, June 10, location time. KCON 2024 Los Angeles typically requires position across Los Angeles’ Crypto.com Arena, LA Convention Centre and Gilbert Lindsay Plaza from July 26-28.