Bang Yongguk announces HAEBANG World Tour and new full-length album

Bang Yongguk is taking HAEBANG(解方) WORLD TOUR pt.1 across ten cities in Europe and Asia. The tour opens August 30 in Paris and closes October 20 in Hong Kong—and it's essentially a live album preview.

Europe gets six stops: Paris La Flèche (Aug 30), London Dingwalls (Sep 2), Amsterdam Q-Factory (Sep 4), Berlin HOLE44 (Sep 6), Warsaw Hybrydy (Sep 8), and Madrid Independance (Sep 10). Asia follows with Singapore Annexe Studio (Oct 3), Seoul Hyundai Card Understage (Oct 10), Taipei CORNER MAX (Oct 18), and Hong Kong TIDES (Oct 20). Yongguk kept his vision simple: "To fully understand and unravel oneself, and in doing so, discover one's truest self."

The shows will feature unreleased material from the new studio record. No title or release date yet, but the intent is clear.

Yongguk debuted in 2012 as leader and main rapper of B.A.P with WARRIOR, though he'd already logged underground work as Jepp Blackman—features on Maslow's Rapsody and 위대한 항해 in 2006, plus a 2011 digital single I Remember with BEAST's Yang Yo-seob. His solo output spans the 2019 self-titled BANGYONGGUK, EP 2 (2022), EP THE COLORS OF LOVE and digital single Green (2023), and EP 3 (2024). Post-reunion B.A.P includes EP CURTAIN CALL and Christmas With You. He holds 165 registered K-pop idol copyright songs as of 2025.

This album will be his second solo full-length.