Red Velvet’s Wendy announces first solo world tour

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Red Velvet‘s Wendy has announced her first-ever solo world tour – see the full list of dates below.

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Today, Wendy and her agency ASND Label took to social media to announce the ‘W:EALIVE’ tour, which will kick off this September. The upcoming run of shows will include stops in Seoul, Taipei, Hong Kong, Tokyo, San Francisco, Pasadena, Sugar Land, Chicago, Brooklyn, Washington DC, Atlanta, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Macau and Manila.

The string of shows will run from September through January 2026. See the full list of dates below. Venues and ticketing information have yet to be announced.

The tour announcement comes ahead of the Red Velvet member releasing new material in September. It’ll mark her first release since leaving SM Entertainment with Yeri back in April – however she remains a member of the K-pop group.

> [#NEWS] > 웬디, 첫 솔로 월드투어 '위얼라이브' 스케줄 포스터 공개 > > 🔗 [https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/72x72/1f517.png] https://t.co/tu2sJU4LTx#WENDY #웬디 #WEALIVE#WENDY_WORLDTOUR > pic.twitter.com/kKLeuZdNfa > > — ASND (@ASNDLABEL) August 22, 2025

WENDY’S 2025 ‘W:EALIVE’ WORLD TOUR DATES ARE:

SEPTEMBER 20 – Seoul, South Korea 21 – Seoul, South Korea

OCTOBER 05 – Hong Kong 22 – Tokyo, Japan 23 – Tokyo, Japan 30 – San Francisco, California

NOVEMBER 01 – Pasadena, California 04 – Sugar Land, Texas 06 – Chicago, Illinois 09 – Brooklyn, New York 11 – Washington D.C. 13 – Atlanta, Georgia

DECEMBER 14 – Bangkok, Thailand 20 – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

JANUARY 10 – Macau, China 17 – Manila, Philippines

The other three members of Red Velvet – Seulgi, Irene and Joy – renewed their contracts with SM Entertainment in August 2023, February 2024 and January 2025, respectively.

Red Velvet debuted as a quartet in 2014, with Wendy, Seulgi, Irene and Joy as the group’s founding members. Yeri was added to the line-up in 2015 with the release of their first mini-album, ‘Ice Cream Cake’.

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