Girl group Twice announces dates, cities for ‘Ready to Be’ world tour

Girl group Twice announced its fifth world tour, “Ready to Be,” set to make stops in 14 cities, according to its agency JYP Entertainment on Wednesday.
 
The tour shares the same name as the girl group’s 12th EP, scheduled to be released on March 10.
 
Twice will be stopping in Australia first, in Sydney on May 3 and Melbourne on May 6. The group will then visit Japan, performing in Osaka on May 13 and 14, and in Tokyo on May 20 and 21. In June, Twice will head to North America and perform in Los Angeles on June 10, Oakland on June 13, Seattle on June 16, Dallas on June 21, Houston on June 24, Chicago on June 28, Toronto, Canada on July 2, New York on July 6 and finally in Atlanta on July 9.

The girl group will have a total of six stadium performances, making it the first K-pop girl group to perform in Japanese stadiums in Osaka and Tokyo. They will also return to the Bank of California Stadium in Los Angeles, where the group had its first U.S. stadium performance last year.

Twice is also expected to showcase its first subunit called MiSaMo, comprised of the three Japanese members of the group — Mina, Sana and Momo — in July. MiSaMo will make its debut with its first EP in Japan on July 2, as announced by JYP earlier this year.

BY CHO YONG-JUN [cho.yongjun1@joongang.co.kr]