BIGBANG open 'XX : COSMOS' world tour in Goyang — first full-group concert since 2017

BIGBANG opened their XX : COSMOS world tour on December 21 in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province. It was their first concert as a complete unit since Last Dance at Seoul's Gocheok Dome in December 2017.

G-Dragon, Taeyang, and Daesung played for two and a half hours across 32 songs to 40,000 people. The night opened with Fantastic Baby, the 2012 track that became the first K-pop group music video to hit 200 million YouTube views on January 27, 2016.

Big, a new song recorded for the group's 20th anniversary, had its live debut that evening. The setlist ranged across their history: Haru Haru and Lies in R&B arrangements, Loser, Home Sweet Home, Bang Bang Bang, G-Dragon's solo cuts Crayon and Crooked, his solo Power reworked as a Latin pop version, the G-Dragon and Taeyang collaboration Good Boy, and Daesung's solo Nalbwa Gwisun. Encores closed with 붉은 노을 and 마지막 인사.

G-Dragon told the crowd: "BIGBANG has really returned. We haven't gone anywhere." Taeyang reflected on two decades together: "Over 20 years we have grown together and shared, and I think there is nothing more beautiful than this." Daesung expressed gratitude to fans "who filled this place with incomparably great love."

The Goyang dates are the first of 33 shows across 19 cities in North America, Europe, Oceania, and Asia running through next year. Additional tour cities will be announced later.