Singer Sung Si-kyung will go ahead with his year-end concert as scheduled, overcoming the hurt from financial damage caused by a former manager.
According to Sung Si-kyung's agency, SK Jaewon, on the 10th, Sung will hold a year-end concert Dec. 25-28 at KSPO DOME in Olympic Park in Songpa District, Seoul.
Sung Si-kyung is one of the few "ballad performance powerhouses." He fills KSPO DOME, considered a sacred site in Korea's concert industry, every year. This year, there were predictions the show could be canceled after Sung suffered financial damage from a former manager.
However, after taking the stage on the second day of the "2025 Incheon Airport Sky Festival" the day before, Sung decided to proceed with this year-end show as planned as well. It is to keep his promise to fans. Having been comforted by fans through the previous day's performance, he also wrote on social media the same day, "I will take on the year-end performance."
Recently, Sung Si-kyung suffered financial damage from a former manager, identified as A. A, claiming to crack down on concert scalpers, siphoned off VIP tickets and embezzled several hundred million won, and was said to have pocketed revenue through a bank account under a spouse's name.
The agency said, "The former manager committed acts that betrayed the company's trust in the course of performing duties while employed. Our internal investigation recognized the seriousness of the matter, and we are checking the exact scope of the damage." A has resigned.
Immediately after this became known, Sung Si-kyung said, "The past few months have truly been a continuous stretch of distressing and unbearable time. Experiencing a breach of trust by someone I trusted, cherished, and thought of as family isn't something that has never happened in the 25 years since my debut, but even at this age, it isn't easy."