Seo Tai-ji to launch nationwide tour

Seo Tai-ji

By Lee Kyung-min

Seo Tai-ji, 41, will resume his music career after a five-year hiatus, an entertainment management company said Tuesday.

Show21 has signed a contract with the musician detailing a nationwide tour in September shortly after his ninth album release. The singer’s own company will be in charge of organizing the performance.

The tour will begin in Seoul, but specifics about the venues, dates and ticket prices have yet to be determined. His tour is expected to generate more than 10 billion won ($9.77 million) in profits.

Seo is a pop culture icon who made his debut as a lead singer in the boy band "Seo Tai-ji & Boys" in 1992.

His biggest hits include “Come Back Home,” “I Know,” “To You,” “In the Memory of the Times I Spent with You,” “Take Five,” “Take Six” and “Classroom Idea.”

In recent years, the superstar has been at the center of media attention for his personal life rather than his music.

Seo has kept out of the public eye since a 2011 marriage scandal with actress E Ji-ah. The couple officially divorced in 2011 after a lengthy dispute.

Sixteen years after his first marriage, he married actress Lee Eun-sung in a private ceremony last year. The two first crossed paths back in 2008 through the filming of Seo’s music video for “Bermuda [Triangle],” one of the tracks from his eighth album. The couple will become parents in August.