Highline Entertainment has announced that WONHO will embark on a new world tour in 2027, with a series of concerts in the United States scheduled throughout January.

The first leg of the ‘WONHO 2027 WORLD TOUR <NOCHE>’ will see the singer visiting 10 cities: Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Chicago, Dallas, Orlando, Silver Spring, Philadelphia, and New York. Each show will take place at intimate theatre venues, with between 1,000 and 2,500 maximum attendees.

The tour will be WONHO’s first in the U.S. since 2024, and will take on a different format. The ‘2024 WONHO USA FAN MEETUP <WELCOME BACK, WENE>’ was positioned as a celebratory reunion of WONHO and his fans, WENEE, following his completion of mandatory military service. As opposed to a tour fully planned around the release of new music, it held a more sentimental purpose. Since then, WONHO has attempted to hold his first official North America touring leg; an 11-show run was announced as part of the ‘2025 WONHO WORLD TOUR <STAY AWAKE>’. However, the shows were ultimately cancelled due to the local promoter experiencing operational and administrative issues. Only three solo concerts have succeeded in limited locations in North America, taking place in July and August 2026 to support the release of the EP CORE.

At last, three years on from his fan meetup series, fans in the U.S. will be able to witness WONHO performing live across the country. The tour is largely being kept at a similar scale to the planned 2025 run, with the venue booked in Los Angeles itself remaining the same, essentially giving WENEE a second chance to attend — this time with a new concept and new music.

<NOCHE> comes after the release of WONHO’s first EP CORE in July, led by its title track “Don’t Wake Me Up!”. Whether the tour and album are directly connected is unclear at the moment, but the timing lines up. Both <NOCHE>, meaning “until dawn,” and the EP’s title track share an interlinked concept in name, also tying back to the <STAY AWAKE> name in series.

CORE surpassed 18,000 copies sold within its first month of release, a figure higher than his previous full album SYNDROME. This sets up an upward trajectory for WONHO, especially as a new world tour will see him in front of a larger audience. With <NOCHE>, he will hope to widen his international audience and boost those numbers.

At present, only the initial U.S. run of <NOCHE> has been announced. But, with the tour explicitly positioned as WONHO’s second world tour, it can be assumed that further legs are to come.

Tickets for the ‘WONHO 2027 WORLD TOUR <NOCHE>’ will be released in an artist pre-sale on November 11, with general sale following on November 13.