They are back to celebrate their 15th anniversary this year with their PH Blackjacks.
Iconic Korean pop group 2NE1, composed of members Bom, Sandara Park, CL, and Minzy, are performing in the Philippines this weekend.
The quarter is in town to present their ‘Welcome Back’ reunion concert to Filipino Blackjacks on Saturday, November 16 and Sunday, November 17, 2024 at the Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay City.
Initially scheduled to be one-night event only, an additional date was later announced by the organizers after the tickets for first night were declared sold-out within a few hours on its initial selling day.
The ‘Welcome Back’ tour is the group’s celebration for the 15th anniversary of their 2009 debut, which kicked-off in South Korea and will also be held in Japan, Jakarta, Hong Kong, Singapore, Bangkok, and Taipei.
It also marks the group’s return to the Philippines as a complete four-member team 10 years after they last took the stage together during their ‘All Or Nothing’ concert in May 2014.
Although, individually, they have been to the country quite recently.
Sandara goes back-and-forth, as she usually tours various spots in Metro Manila and the provinces for her travel program, through which she had also visited Palawan with CL.
In June 2023, Bom and Minzy also brought their respective solo concert tours to Manila, which they held within a week of each other at the same venue in Quezon City.
2NE1 made its official debut on May 17, 2009 when they released the single ‘Fire’.
The group went on to become one of the most prominent female groups in the K-pop scene, having cemented their popularity through the successive hit songs like ‘I Don’t Care,’ ‘Go Away,’ ‘Can’t Nobody,’ ‘Lonely,’ ‘I Am The Best,’ ‘I Love You,’ ‘Falling In Love,’ ‘Do You Love Me,’ and ‘Come Back Home,’ among others.
In November 2016, after seven years as team and following Minzy’s departure a few months before, YG announced 2NE1’s disbandment and released the group’s final single ‘Goodbye.’
However, it would not be the last time that the group’s original line-up will be seen together, as they made their surprise on-stage reunion during Coachella 2022.
In June 2024, it was confirmed by YG Entertainment that it met with the four members held a meeting, which served as the first indication of a reunion project of the team after eight years.
2NE1 joins their contemporaries Girls’ Generation, Brown Eyed Girls, and 2PM to be some of the ‘2nd gen’ groups to have made their respective comebacks in recent years.