Singer Baek Ji-young cancels concert tour

Singer Baek Ji-young [ILGAN SPORTS]

Singer Baek Ji-young is canceling her plans for a concert tour across Korea due to the continued high numbers of coronavirus-positive cases, her agency Tri-Us Entertainment announced Monday.

Tickets to the titled “BAEK-HUG” tour, which was supposed to start Dec. 5 in Busan and include stops in Gwangju and Seoul, will be fully refunded. More detailed information about the refunds can be found from the website fans bought the tickets from, such as Interpark or Ticketlink.

The singer previously posted on her social media account in October that she was making the safety of the staff and the audience a top priority, and hoped to see the fans on the scheduled date. But the agency said even though the staff was trying to make the event safe, it decided that canceling the tour was necessary to keep the virus from spreading further.

BY LEE SUN-MIN [summerlee@joongang.co.kr]