KCON LA 2023 to kick off Friday, streamed live on Tving

21 K-pop bands and artists will be joining KCON LA 2023 [CJ ENM]

KCON LA 2023 will kick off Friday and continue until Sunday at the Crypto.com Arena and the Los Angeles Convention Center.

KCON is a global K-pop festival hosted and organized by CJ ENM, which takes place in countries all over the world, including Thailand and Japan.

Since 2012, KCON has attracted more than 1.48 million fans in attendance.

For KCON LA 2023, there will be three K-pop concerts as opposed to only having two in previous editions. K-pop acts Ateez, Cravity, Everglow, (G)I-DLE, Kep1er, Nmixx, Everglow, Taemin and Taeyong will be performing at the three-day event.

The festival will see many "first-time" performances. It will mark IVE, rookie boy band xikers and ZeroBaseOne's first performances in the United States. It will also be Monsta X's first subunit, Shownu and Hyungwon's first U.S. show.

KCON LA 2023 will be streamed live on Tving from Saturday to Monday local time. It will also be available via video-on-demand.

To find out more about KCON, visit Celeb Confirmed!

BY SHIN MIN-HEE [shin.minhee@joongang.co.kr]