Boy band Treasure adds three more performances to Asia tour

Poster for boy band Treasure's Asian tour, ″2023 Treasure Tour [Hello]″ [YG ENTERTAINMENT]

Treasure has added three more performances to its Asia tour, "2023 Treasure Tour [Hello]," the boy band's agency YG Entertainment announced Thursday.

The band will now perform for two days in Bangkok on March 31 and April 1 and add another day to its previously scheduled Manila performances on April 14. Treasure's first Asian tour will now include 12 concerts in eight cities.

Prior to the Asian tour, the band held 24 concerts in seven Japanese cities — Hokkaido, Fukui, Aichi, Fukuoka, Hyogo, Tokyo, Saitama, and Osaka — from last November to January of this year "Treasure Japan Arena Tour 2022-23." A total of 300,000 fans attended the Japanese concerts, a record number for a K-pop artist to achieve on their first tour in Japan.

Formed through the audition show "YG Treasure Box" (2018) in collaboration with the broadcasting company JTBC, the boy band debuted in 2020 under YG Entertainment with the single "Boy," and recently released their second EP, "The Second Step: Chapter Two," in October 2022.

It currently consists of 10 members: Choi Hyun-suk, Jihoon, Yoshi, Junkyu, Yoon Jae-hyuk, Asahi, Haruto, Doyoung, Park Jeong-woo and So Jung-hwan.Members Mashiho and Bang Ye-dam departed from the band in November 2022.

BY CHO YONG-JUN [cho.yongjun1@joongang.co.kr]