First performances at the Seoul venue underscore the group’s growing presence in both Korea and Japan
Four years after their debut, &Team arrived at Seoul’s KSPO Dome with a performance that showed just how far the nine-member group has come.
The nine-member group wrapped up “Blaze the Way,” its largest Asia tour to date, with two encore concerts Saturday and Sunday at the venue in southern Seoul, bringing a five-month journey across 14 cities and 23 shows to a close. The tour drew some 230,000 concertgoers in total and included &Team’s first solo dome concert at Belluna Dome in Saitama, Japan, in September.
For a group that was created in Japan in 2022 by YX Labels, Hybe's Japanese label, and only formally entered the Korean market in 2025, its first concert at KSPO Dome offered another measure of that growth. KSPO Dome, which can accommodate about 15,000 people, remains a significant benchmark of mainstream success in K-pop, often marking a group’s transition from a rising act to a top-tier performer.
“We’ve officially arrived at KSPO Dome after debuting four years ago,” leader EJ told the audience Sunday. “When I think back to four years ago, I believe we were able to grow step by step together with Lune from our first solo concert to what is now our fourth concert tour. That makes this moment especially meaningful.”
Lune is the name of the group’s official fandom.
&Team’s growth was most evident in the performance itself, as the nonet delivered an impact from the start. They immediately launched into “Good Boy,” a side track from their recently released Korean EP, “Mark on Me,” before powering through “Lunatic” and “Scent of You.”
The opening stretch played directly to one of &Team’s greatest strengths: choreography built around nine people moving almost as a single unit. Formations shifted rapidly as the artists broke apart and regrouped yet rarely lost their precision. Even through some of the night’s most physically demanding sequences, their energy remained remarkably consistent.
A cover of BTS’ “2.0” and “Rush” rounded out the first section of the show before the concert moved into a darker run of songs tied to &Team’s recurring wolf motif.
“W.O.L.F. (Win Or Lose Fight)” and debut track “Under the Skin” led into “Mark on Me,” the title track of its second Korean EP and one of the night’s most enthusiastically received numbers. “Go in Blind” was performed partly with the bandmates blindfolded, while “Bewitched” pushed the show’s intensity, with K further driving up the energy by urging the crowd to get louder.
The encore concert also incorporated five songs from “Mark on Me” into the tour for the first time, giving the Seoul finale a noticeably different shape from earlier stops. That difference became clearest in the show’s third section, when &Team traded its intense choreography and wolf imagery for something considerably cuter and lighter.
"Mismatch" and the retro-tinged "Love Letter" led into a surprise cover of Twice's "TT," prepared exclusively for the KSPO Dome concerts. The deliberately cute performance sent the arena into some of the loudest screams of the evening and provided a playful contrast to the darker material that had dominated the preceding section.
From there, the show became more interactive. During "Aoarashi," "Wolf Type" and "Night to Howl!," the bandmates spent less time locked into synchronized formations and more time roaming the extended stage, jumping along with the crowd and encouraging Lune to sing back.
As the 150-minute concert approached its end, the members returned to the same subject: how much the tour had changed them.
“We learned a lot through this tour — what we're still lacking and what we can do better,” EJ said. “Though this tour is coming to a close, we’ll make sure to work harder to show you a better side of ourselves during our next tour. Please wait for us as we will try to come back to Korea soon.”
K looked toward the group’s longer-term future.
“As we approach our fifth debut anniversary in December, we've been discussing our future, and the keyword that always comes up is Lune,” K said. “We always want to do everything for Lune and we want to give back as much happiness as we have received from you. We hope you’ll continue to grow with us and stay with us until the end.”
Though “Blaze the Way” has come to a close, &Team has little time to dwell on the milestone. The group begins its next tour, “Mark on You,” on Oct. 15 in Tokyo, with 41 shows planned across 18 Japanese cities before returning to Korea in spring 2027.
lee.jungjoo@heraldcorp.com