ENHYPEN VR Concert Destiny and IVE's An-Young Exhibition Close After the Chuseok Break

Korea's Chuseok holiday weekend opened on the 24th with a full four days off, and if you'd rather spend the break somewhere other than a gridlocked expressway, two K-pop experiences in Seoul are making a strong case for themselves.

One puts you inside an ENHYPEN dark-fantasy story wearing a VR headset. The other lets you stand in the same room as life-size holograms of IVE's Ahn Yujin and Jang Wonyoung. Both are worth knowing about before the holiday window closes.

ENHYPEN VR Concert: Destiny

ENHYPEN VR CONCERT: DESTINY has been screening since the 18th at Lotte Cinema World Tower and Hongdae, and it's the most immersive concert format the group has offered fans outside of a live venue. The premise is cinematic: ENHYPEN members navigate a vampire society, breaking its taboos while a mounting threat closes in on them, and the narrative unfolds through performances woven into the story rather than between it.

What makes it genuinely interesting as a format is the branching structure. Which member you choose to follow changes the scenes you see and how the story develops, so two people sitting side by side in VR headsets can have meaningfully different runs through the same concert. The up-close staging, combined with that sense of actually being inside the action rather than watching from a seat, is the clearest argument for VR as a fan experience format rather than a gimmick. For anyone who hasn't been able to attend an ENHYPEN concert in person, this is about as close as recorded media gets.

IVE's An-Young IN SEOUL Exhibition

The media art exhibition 안녕(An-Young) IN SEOUL has been running since the 5th at The Seoul Laitium's Third Exhibition Hall and Atrium in Seongdong-gu, Seoul, with the final day falling on the 27th. The title plays on the fan nickname "Annyeongz" (안녕즈), the affectionate portmanteau fans use for Ahn Yujin and Jang Wonyoung together, and the whole space is built around the idea of the word "annyeong" as both a hello and a goodbye between the two.

The exhibition includes previously unreleased photos of Yujin and Wonyoung, along with interactive media art elements designed specifically for DIVE, IVE's fandom. A motion-matching installation lets visitors mirror the members' movements on screen and make finger hearts alongside them. Elsewhere, a dedicated listening space lets you hear Yujin and Wonyoung's voices up close, which reads differently when you've only ever experienced them through recorded video. The centrepiece is a full-scale 3D hologram room where both members appear at life size, which is the kind of installation that makes sense to see rather than read about.

With the exhibition closing on the 27th, the Chuseok break is effectively the last window most fans in Seoul will have to visit. Both events are the sort of thing that photograph well, but the actual draw is that neither of them translates neatly to a screen recording, which is probably the point.