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Coex Artium to reopen with more seats
COEX Artium / Courtesy of Interpark
By Park Ji-won
By Park Ji-won
The COEX Artium, which was run by SM Entertainment as a concert hall from 2015 to 2020, will reopen in December with more seating available.
Interpark Theater, an affiliate of online commerce company Interpark which will run COEX Artium for the next five years, said it will increase the number of seats to 1,004 from 774 and reopen the hall Dec. 10. Interpark Theater runs various theaters in Seoul, including Bluesquare and Fan Square.
The hall has also been equipped with a new sound system and mechanisms to allow faster set changes.
The first show marking its reopening will be the musical “Fan Letter” that will run from Dec. 10 to March 20 next year. The musical revolves around novelist Kim Hae-jin, aspiring writer Jung Sae-hun and another novelist named Hikaru during the 1930s when Korea was under Japanese occupation.