2025 KBS Song Festival Global Festival: Lineup, Collaboration Stages, and Classic-Hit Tributes (Live Tonight)
The 2025 KBS Song Festival Global Festival airs live on Dec 19 (KST), spotlighting K-pop’s global cultural impact. With 25 acts across generations and genres, the show features full-group stages, special collaborations, and classic-hit tribute performances.
Held at Songdo Convensia in Incheon, the show is hosted by Jang Do-yeon, Moon Sang-min, and ILLIT’s Minju. Spanning about 190 minutes, it blends genres—from mainstream K-pop to band-driven stages and trot-style performances—positioning the festival as a full-scale year-end music celebration.
The announced lineup features 25 acts, including CNBLUE, 10CM, Roy Kim, Park Seo-jin, Jannabi, Lovelyz, Dayoung, NCT DREAM (with Mark and Haechan), THE BOYZ, fromis_9, Lee Chan-won, P1Harmony, STAYC, aespa, LE SSERAFIM, tripleS, KISS OF LIFE, n.SSign, EVNNE, Close Your Eyes, HITGS, Baby DONT Cry, and AHOF. A major highlight is the festival-only collaboration stages—designed to showcase unexpected chemistry across artists and generations.
The ‘classic-hit tribute’ segment is another buzz driver: fromis_9 reinterprets AOA’s “Miniskirt,” KISS OF LIFE performs miss A’s “Bad Girl Good Girl,” and Lovelyz revisits their beloved “Ah-Choo.” These stages often spark immediate conversation and fast social sharing—one of the most reliable year-end show multipliers.
## 【KStarLoud Insight】 Year-end music festivals tend to win not by a single performance, but by satisfying multiple audience clusters at once—new-release fans, live-band listeners, and viewers who want narrative-driven stages. With 25 genre-spanning acts plus collabs and classic tributes, the show is structured for clipability and fast social spread. For publishing, target searchable keyword pairs: festival name + collaboration pairing, festival name + tribute song titles, and festival name + specific stage names. A strong approach is one comprehensive roundup for broad demand, followed by 2–3 focused follow-ups on collabs and tributes for longer-tail traffic.