The group HIGHLIGHT has successfully concluded their fan-con and announced a comeback as a full group in April.

HIGHLIGHT (Yoon Doo-joon, Yang Yo-seop, Lee Gi-kwang, Son Dong-woon) held their 2025 fan-con ‘WELCOME TO THE HIGH-MART’ at Jamsil Indoor Stadium in Seoul on the 8th and 9th.

On that day, HIGHLIGHT transformed into Hi-Mart‘s new employee Yoon Doo-joon, assistant manager Yang Yo-seop, manager Lee Gi-kwang, and Gen. G representative Son Dong-woon, and energetically greeted the ‘customers’, LIGHT (official fandom name), who visited the concert venue with a cheerful skit. Then, in line with the unique concept of the ‘Excellent Employee Selection Event’, they carried out various missions and showed off Highlight’s famous chemistry.

In order to acquire the virtues of an excellent employee, Highlight performed various missions such as guessing product names, displaying items, and counting money in both individual and team matches. Games using familiar items found at the mart were performed differently for each day‘s performance. In particular, the four members presented captivating fun with their passionate competitive spirit as well as their outstanding athletic nerves and sense. The last game added meaning by providing time to deliver abundant reverse tribute gifts, including the performance MD, to the audience.

In the second part, a well-made live performance brought the excitement to the peak. Highlights included ‘Gotta Go To Work’, ‘S.ILY (Say I Love You)’, conveying a romantic sensibility, and ‘Classic’, ‘So Hot’, which were selected for the first time in a long time since the 2022 and 2023 fancons, doubling the emotion. ‘Give You My All’, where he breathed together with the audience on the raised stage, also drew a hot response.

The hit song stages such as ‘It’s a Beautiful Night’, ‘Don‘t Frown’, ‘BODY’, which led to an exciting scene where Yoon Doo-joon pressed the karaoke remote control, led to successive sing-alongs and cheers. In addition, the bridge video where the members acted out their respective characters according to their positions and the cookie video with the concept of preparing to leave work presented enjoyment in the intermission.

During the encore time, Highlight made a surprise appearance from the audience and the floor again and sang ‘Freeze’, ‘V.IU (Very Important U)’, ‘Lovely Day’, and ‘Good Night’, capturing fans’ hearts until the end.

The news of Highlight‘s comeback in April was first revealed through a spoiler video at the end of the concert. According to this, Highlight will pre-release a new song from their new album on April 16th and make an official comeback by releasing the actual album on April 28th. Along with this, the pre-released song with a hazy atmosphere that was revealed for the first time and some parts of the new title song with a hip style each captivated our ears with their own charms.

Highlight, who successfully concluded their fan concert and kicked off the new year with a full group schedule, are raising expectations for what kind of appearance they will show in their comeback activities after a year and a half.

Jeon Hyo-jin, Donga.com Reporter jhj@donga.com

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