QWER's first tour hit 20-plus cities. This one plays nine.

When and where is QWER's ROCKET LAUNCH!! tour?

QWER is trading breadth for a tighter Asian run. The four-piece band's second headline tour books nine cities and 13 shows across four months — a fraction of the 20-plus-city footprint of its first world tour.

QWER 2nd TOUR <ROCKATION : ROCKET LAUNCH!!> runs from September 12, 2026 in Seoul through January 9, 2027 in Singapore, covering nine Asian cities and 13 total performances . The band — Chodan (drums), Magenta (bass), Hina (guitar/keyboards) and Siyeon (vocals/guitar), who debuted on October 18, 2023 — opens with two nights at Korea University's Hwajeong Gymnasium, the venue commonly called the Tiger Dome, in Seongbuk-gu, northeastern Seoul .

Quick Answer: QWER 2nd TOUR <ROCKATION : ROCKET LAUNCH!!> plays nine Asian cities and 13 shows between September 12, 2026 and January 9, 2027. It opens in Seoul at Korea University Hwajeong Gymnasium and closes in Singapore, with stops in Taipei, Fukuoka, Osaka, Tokyo, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok and Hong Kong.

The routing was first revealed on July 12, 2026, when QWER's agency 3Y Corporation published the date-and-city lineup with a teaser poster featuring space-traveling cat characters modeled on the four members . A second poster followed on August 8, 2026, showing a guitar-shaped rocket against a cosmic backdrop and all four members in four-color spacesuits .

Full confirmed routing

Seoul showtimes are 5:00 p.m. KST on Saturday, September 12 and 4:00 p.m. KST on Sunday, September 13 . Hwajeong Gymnasium sits on the Korea University campus and is served by Anam Station on Seoul Subway Line 6 .

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The October block is the compressed part of the schedule. After two nights in Taipei on October 10–11, the band plays three Japanese cities in five days: Fukuoka on October 13, Osaka on October 15 and Tokyo on October 17 . That spacing makes a single Fukuoka–Osaka–Tokyo trip feasible by Shinkansen inside one JR Pass window, and it is the only stretch of the tour where a fan can realistically attend three cities on one flight itinerary. The Southeast Asian dates are spread wider — Kuala Lumpur on November 7 and Bangkok on November 14 — before a seven-week gap to the Hong Kong show on January 2, 2027 and the Singapore finale on January 8–9, 2027 .

One caution on venues: overseas venue names had not been consolidated into a single official listing at the time of writing, and local promoters announce them market by market. Do not assume continuity with the earlier ROCKATION legs. AsiaWorld-Expo in Hong Kong, for instance, hosted a QWER Asia tour date on February 8, 2026 — that belongs to the previous run, not the January 2, 2027 ROCKET LAUNCH!! date. QWER's Weverse notices remain the first-party source for any schedule change , with Live Nation's QWER artist page useful for cross-checking on-sale timing in individual markets.

Why does QWER's second tour play fewer cities than its first?

The shrink from 20-plus cities to nine is a routing decision, not a downgrade in demand. QWER's first run, 2025 QWER 1ST WORLD TOUR <ROCKATION>, stretched across more than 20 cities in North America, Asia and the Pacific . ROCKET LAUNCH!! trades that spread for an Asia-only routing of nine cities and 13 shows between September 2026 and January 2027 , concentrating the band where its release calendar is currently pointed.

The clearest signal is Japan. QWER signed with Warner Music Japan in June 2026 ahead of its first Japanese single, and released "Show Down" there as the opening theme for the anime Tomb Raid King . That deal lands directly on the tour map: three Japanese cities inside five days — Fukuoka on October 13, Osaka on October 15 and Tokyo on October 17, 2026 . For a band whose sound sits closer to rock and anime-song territory than to conventional K-pop dance production , an anime tie-in single is a functional entry point into the Japanese market, and a compressed three-city block is how a new label partner builds one.

The commercial record underneath the routing has been moving in one direction. Album sales roughly doubled inside 14 months across three releases :

• Manito (April 2024) — 55,577 copies
• Algorithm's Blossom (September 2024) — 64,910 copies
• In a Million Noises, I'll Be Your Harmony (June 2025) — 113,551 copies

Chart results track the same curve. "T.B.H" peaked at No. 2 on South Korea's Circle Digital Chart and appeared on Billboard's Global Excl. US, while "My Name Is Malguem" delivered the band's first music-show trophy on Show Champion in October 2024 . QWER debuted on October 18, 2023 , so all of this arrives inside a three-year window.

Read together, the nine-city plan looks like consolidation rather than retreat: fewer long-haul markets, more repeat nights in the ones that convert — two shows each in Seoul, Taipei and Singapore . The practical consequence for fans outside Asia is that ROCKET LAUNCH!! is a travel tour, not a local one. There is also a four-week gap between the Seoul dates on September 12–13, 2026 and the Taipei dates on October 10–11, 2026 , which rules out covering both legs on a single trip.

Is Seoul ticketing still open, and how do overseas dates work?

Seoul ticketing is closed. All sales for the September 12–13, 2026 shows at Korea University's Hwajeong Gymnasium ran exclusively through Melon Ticket, and the full cycle finished in mid-August: fan-club membership verification on August 10–11, 2026, a fan-club pre-sale on August 12 from 8:00 p.m. to 11:59 p.m. KST, and general sales opening August 13, 2026 at 8:00 p.m. KST . Fans arriving at this now should plan around the overseas legs instead.

Those overseas legs work differently from Seoul. There is no single consolidated on-sale listing for Taipei, Fukuoka, Osaka, Tokyo, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Hong Kong or Singapore — venue names and ticketing windows are announced city by city by local promoters, on their own timelines . In practice that means checking three sources per city rather than one:

• QWER's Weverse notices — the authoritative first-party channel for schedule changes and official ticketing links .
• The local promoter or ticketing platform for that market, which publishes the venue, seating map and on-sale time.
• Aggregator listings such as Live Nation's QWER artist page, useful as a cross-check on timing but not as a substitute for the promoter's own announcement .

One date trap is worth flagging before you book flights. AsiaWorld-Expo in Hong Kong hosted a QWER Asia tour date on February 8, 2026 in Runway 11 / Hall 11, with tickets at HK$1,788 / $1,588 / $1,288 / $888 sold via KKTIX from November 10, 2025 . That show belongs to the earlier ROCKATION run and is not the ROCKET LAUNCH!! Hong Kong date, which falls on January 2, 2027 . Search results still surface the February listing prominently, so confirm the year and the tour title before treating any Hong Kong page as current. The same caution applies to venue continuity generally — do not assume a 2026 ROCKATION venue carries over to the 2026–2027 routing.

If you are chasing a sold-out Seoul seat, use official channels only. Korea's major ticketing platforms operate official safe-resale boards that match verified buyers and sellers at face value, and third-party resale of Korean concert tickets above face value is legally restricted. Tickets bought outside those boards can be cancelled at the gate, and there is no recourse for a foreign buyer who paid a markup.

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What does 'ROCKET LAUNCH!!' mean for the live show?

"ROCKET LAUNCH!!" is QWER's stated framing for taking its music beyond Korea, and it points to a band-format concert rather than a dance-format one. STARNEWS reports that the subtitle symbolizes the group's ambition to imprint its music on a wider world, "much like a rocket soaring into space" . The pun on "rock" is deliberate: QWER performs as a four-piece live band, so the tour's identity is built around instrumentation, not choreography.

"'ROCKET LAUNCH!!' symbolizes the band's ambition to imprint their music on a wider world, much like a rocket soaring into space," — STARNEWS, reporting on the tour announcement (source: STARNEWS, 2026-07).

The visual language matches. A second poster released on August 8, 2026 shows a guitar-shaped rocket against a cosmic backdrop with all four members in four-color spacesuits . The earlier July teaser took a lighter route, featuring space-traveling cat characters modeled on the four members, according to The Korea Herald .

What that means on the floor is straightforward. The lineup is Chodan on drums, Magenta on bass, Hina on guitar and keyboards, and Siyeon on vocals and guitar . Expect live instrumentation and band staging drawn from four EPs — including "T.B.H," which peaked at No. 2 on South Korea's Circle Digital Chart, and "My Name Is Malguem," which won the band's first music-show trophy on Show Champion in October 2024 . Japanese audiences may also get "Show Down," the band's Tomb Raid King anime opening released after signing with Warner Music Japan in June 2026 .

The concrete takeaway: Seoul's two nights on September 12–13, 2026 at Korea University's Hwajeong Gymnasium have already sold through Melon Ticket, so fans planning around this tour should track the eight overseas cities from Taipei (October 10–11) onward and watch QWER's Weverse notices for venue and on-sale confirmations . Local promoters, not the agency, control those on-sale dates — check each market individually rather than assuming one schedule covers all nine stops.

Frequently asked questions

How many shows is QWER playing on the ROCKET LAUNCH!! tour?

QWER 2nd TOUR <ROCKATION : ROCKET LAUNCH!!> is routed as 13 shows across nine Asian cities between September 2026 and January 2027 . Three cities carry two nights each — Seoul (September 12–13, 2026), Taipei (October 10–11, 2026) and Singapore (January 8–9, 2027) — while Fukuoka (October 13), Osaka (October 15), Tokyo (October 17), Kuala Lumpur (November 7), Bangkok (November 14) and Hong Kong (January 2, 2027) are single-night stops .

Can I still buy tickets for QWER's Seoul shows?

No. The Seoul dates at Korea University's Hwajeong Gymnasium sold exclusively through Melon Ticket, with fan-club membership verification on August 10–11, 2026, a fan-club pre-sale on August 12 from 8:00 p.m. KST, and general sales opening August 13, 2026 at 8:00 p.m. KST . Those windows have closed. Fans still hoping to attend should use the official safe-resale boards run by Korea's major ticketing platforms; reselling Korean concert tickets above face value is legally restricted, so third-party markup listings carry both legal and entry risk .

Is the Hong Kong ROCKET LAUNCH!! date the same as the AsiaWorld-Expo show?

No — they are two different concerts from two different tours. The AsiaWorld-Expo date (Runway 11 / Hall 11) took place on February 8, 2026, with tickets at HK$1,788 / $1,588 / $1,288 / $888 through KKTIX and an on-sale of November 10, 2025; that show belonged to the earlier ROCKATION Asia run . The ROCKET LAUNCH!! Hong Kong stop is January 2, 2027, and its venue had not been consolidated into a single official listing at the time of writing, so confirm the hall with the local promoter .

Can fans catch both the Japan leg and Seoul in one trip?

Not on a single trip. Roughly four weeks separate the Seoul opener on September 12–13, 2026 from the Japan block of Fukuoka (October 13), Osaka (October 15) and Tokyo (October 17) . The Japan dates themselves are compact enough to combine — three cities across five days is workable by Shinkansen inside a single JR Pass window — but Seoul requires a separate visit. Fans building a Seoul itinerary can note that NAMANE Card, which operates this blog, sells one-stop K-pop concert travel packages bundling a concert ticket, a NAMANE prepaid card, hotel and activities; inclusions and current pricing are listed on the sale page. This blog is operated by NAMANE Card.

Why isn't QWER touring North America on this leg?

ROCKET LAUNCH!! is routed as an Asia-focused run, and no North American dates have been announced. That is a change from 2025 QWER 1ST WORLD TOUR <ROCKATION>, which reached more than 20 cities across North America, Asia and the Pacific . The narrower routing tracks the band's current market priorities: QWER signed with Warner Music Japan in June 2026 ahead of its first Japanese single and released "Show Down" as the opening theme for the anime Tomb Raid King, which helps explain the three-city Japanese block in October . Any additional territories would be confirmed through QWER's Weverse notices .

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This article was written using information collected and analyzed by NAMANE's in-house K-pop research AI engine. We use AI technology to bring you faster, broader coverage, and in the process some details may occasionally differ from the latest facts. For important information such as dates, venues, and prices, please double-check with official sources.