LE SSERAFIM Starts 32-Show World Tour in Incheon

LE SSERAFIM launched their PUREFLOW world tour with sold-out Incheon performances, featuring new songs and rearranged classics with band sound.

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LE SSERAFIM Starts 32-Show World Tour in Incheon
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K-Pop group LE SSERAFIM launched their PUREFLOW world tour over the weekend, holding two consecutive sold-out shows at the Incheon Inspire Arena on May 11 and 12. The highly anticipated performances featured the K-pop group performing a number of tracks off of their second full-length studio album, as well as various rearranged versions of previously released singles, performed live with a band.

Dancer kicked off the show in club style to open the evening of May 12th for the final PUREFLOW show in Incheon with a high-energy and pumped up performance of “Celebration” which went into intense choreography straight after the first hook of the song.

New Album Tracks Take Center Stage

LE SSERAFIM Debut New Album Track “Saki” at PUREFLOW Tour in Incheon. The song that gets performed live for the first time is off the second full-length album, with the group delivering intense, expressive choreography on the occasion of its debut to a highly engaged audience.


LE SSERAFIM also made live debuts for some of the songs off of the group’s second full-length album with “Saki,” a dark concept-driven song that comprised mostly of highly expressive and intense choreography along with driving drums in the chorus, with each member providing varying interpretations for their sections of the song, all expressed candidly through their face throughout.

Band Arrangements Offer Fresh Sound

However, the most impressive aspect of their performance was that they transformed 5 of their hit songs into band performances. Although the songs were all originally performed with only electronic production, Heo Yun-jin explained before the concert that the group attempted to change up the sound of the songs for this tour. The performance of ‘HOT’, ‘Perfect Night’, ‘Blue Flame’, ‘Easy’, and ‘1-800-hot-n-fun’ all had incredible energy as they transformed into completely different songs with the use of guitars, bass, drums, and keys.


Production Reflects Album Themes

The concert also extended the concept from the group’s second studio album ‘PUREFLOW pt.1’, which was released in May and centers around the idea of ‘moving forward without stopping, even when facing fear’.


To deliver the message of “moving forward without stopping even when we face fear” from “PUREFLOW pt.1”, the second full-length album released in May, the elaborate production included a two-story high performance area with curved structures and other fluid spatial elements resembling the flowing of an ocean.

Why The PUREFLOW Tour Matters

With The PUREFLOW tour, LE SSERAFIM managed to fill two nights at the Incheon Inspire Arena. While the recent release of their second studio album “PUREFLOW pt.1” provided new material for the concert, such as “How Can We Date More” and “Trust Exercise” in addition to the already familiar “Creature” and “Saki” (live debut), the hit songs were performed in band-arrangements, thus being completely different from what the fans had gotten used to during the previous tour.

The elaborate and ever changing production throughout the show provided for a different view of LE SSERAFIM as performers as compared to their prior tour. A two story platform which some members began on the upper level and some began on the bottom provided for the ability to traverse to and from multiple stages and to interact with every portion of the audience.

Global Tour Schedule Ahead

Their international route includes stops at Japan, US, Europe and Asia and a total of 32 concerts across 23 cities to follow up their Incheon concert series. This would be one of the most demanding concert routes of the Korean representative for this year of 2026.

The PUREFLOW tour is set to showcase LE SSERAFIM’s reach to new international fans beyond their core Korean fan base. Whether attending the tour’s opening shows and witnessing the performance of their newly released album material or catching the remainder of the shows where they will perform their hit tracks reworked, fans can expect to be treated to an extensive setlist comprising of the band’s newer songs as well as a slew of reworked arrangements.

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