The Catch Me: Live World Tour (stylized as TVXQ! Live World Tour "Catch Me"), also known as the Catch Me World Tour, was the fourth world

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(ninth overall) by South Korean pop duo

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, to support their sixth studio album, '' Catch Me'' (2012). The world tour commenced with two shows in Seoul in November 2012. The tour visited seven theatres, arenas, and stadiums from late 2012 through mid-2013 in 8 different countries.

Background

The Catch Me tour marks the group's first tour since their last Asia-wide concert tour, the Mirotic Tour, in February 2009. The two concerts in South Korea will be TVXQ's first concert after the lawsuit between members

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Yoochun Park Yoo-chun (born June 4, 1986), formerly known as Micky Yoochun and better known by the mononym Yoochun, is a South Korean singer-songwriter and actor. He is a former member of the South Korean boy bands JYJ and TVXQ. He has starred in drama ...

and

Junsu Kim Jun-su (; born December 15, 1986) or simply Junsu, also known by the stage name Xia (stylized as XIA; ; ko, 시아) is a South Korean singer, model, dancer and stage actor. He is a member of the Korean pop group and later duo JYJ, and was ...

with

S.M. Entertainment SM Entertainment Co., Ltd. () is a South Korean multinational entertainment agency. It is one of South Korea's largest entertainment companies where it was established in 1995 by record executive and record producer Lee Soo-man. The company ha ...

, and first exclusive concert in four years in Korea. The concert will take place over two days starting from November 17. The 20,000 tickets for the Seoul concerts were sold out within two minutes of going on sale at 20:00 on October 18. The Beijing concert was played to an audience of 15,000 people. It was announced on February 19, 2013, by JPM Music on their website and Facebook page that TVXQ would be performing on May 18, 2013, at Stadium Malawati, Shah Alam in Malaysia. It is JPM Music's first K-Pop concert. This is the first TVXQ concert in Malaysia as a duo and first concert after 6 years.

Broadcasts and recordings

TVXQ's first two performances of the tour at the

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, South Korea was recorded and put on a DVD and a CD. The live album was released on May 22, 2014, comprising two previously unreleased studio tracks: a Korean version of TVXQ's 2011 Japanese digital single "B.U.T. (Be-Au-Ty)" and a Korean remake of their 30th Japanese single, "

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", which was released in 2010. The album debuted at number three on the

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and shifted 19,979 units by the end of the month. The DVD version of the tour was released on August 14, 2014.

Setlist

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solo: "

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U-Know Yunho Jung Yun-ho (; born February 6, 1986), also known by his stage name U-Know Yunho () or simply U-Know, is a South Korean singer-songwriter, actor, and a member of the pop duo TVXQ. Born and raised in Gwangju, South Korea, Yunho started his musi ...

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" #" I Don't Know" (Korean version) #" Humanoids" #" Purple Line" (Korean version) #"

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"I'll Be There"

Tour dates

Cancelled shows

Personnel

* Tour organizer: SM Entertainment

References

External links

TVXQ official homepage

TVXQ official Japanese homepage

JPM Music
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