Nepathya Delivers Live Concert in Seoul as Part of 2026 International Tour
Nepathya performed at KINTEX in Ilsan, Seoul, on September 25, 2026, giving South Korea’s Nepali community one of its biggest live-music events of the year.
By Nepalese Events Australia Editorial
Published: 2026-09-25T22:00:00.000000Z
Category: Entertainment
Nepali folk-rock band Nepathya performed at KINTEX in Ilsan, near Seoul, on Friday, September 25, 2026, as part of its 2026 international tour. The concert was one of the largest Nepali live-music events in South Korea this year and drew fans from across the country, including workers, students and families.
KINTEX is a major exhibition and events complex in Goyang, northwest of Seoul, with easy access via the Seoul Metro Line 3 and the GTX-A line. Gates opened at 5:00 PM local time with the concert running into the evening. Tickets were sold through Nepathya’s official site, HANPASS and local partners, with contact numbers also published for direct booking.
The Seoul show was part of a wider 2026 international run that has included Auckland on May 10, Toronto on April 13, Kuala Lumpur on June 1 and is now headed to Dubai on October 4 before returning to South Asia for a Sikkim concert on October 31. For South Korea’s Nepali community — many of whom are in the country under the Employment Permit System or on student visas — a Nepathya show is one of the biggest cultural events of the year.
The band’s live set in Seoul included signature s such as Koshi Ko Pani, Resham Firiri, Sa Karnali and Taal Ko Pani, along with tributes to Nepali social themes. The concert was supported by local Nepali associations and community promoters, and the NRNA Korea chapter helped coordinate volunteer and logistics support.
More details on the Seoul show and remaining tour dates are available on Nepathya’s official events page and through Fonij Korea.
The timing deserves a note: the show landed during Chuseok, South Korea's harvest thanksgiving holiday — the rare window when the EPS workforce the community is built on gets consecutive days off. That scheduling is why, per the Kathmandu Post's reporting, the audience drew from across the country rather than only the capital, and why the Nepali food stalls around the venue did a festival-scale trade of their own — the concert functioned as a diaspora festival in the same way a Dashain mela does. From Seoul the band travelled back through Nepal before its October 4 Dubai date at The Agenda — the Middle East leg of the same tour — making September-to-October the heaviest international stretch of the band's year. Korea's Nepali community, overwhelmingly workers and students on fixed-term visas, turns out for exactly these marquee home-country acts: a Nepathya show is the closest the year comes to a national gathering abroad.
Frontman Amrit Gurung's longevity is the through-line worth naming: he has fronted the band through three decades of Nepal's musical and political change, and the catalogue the Seoul crowd came for spans that whole arc — the songs functioning less as a setlist than as the community's shared playlist across generations. For the fans who travelled from outside the capital, that's the draw: not a new act's showcase, but the band that sounded the Nepal they left.
That intergenerational reach is precisely what keeps a 30-year-old touring act viable: the parents who remember the albums bring the children who only know the songs from family playlists, and a holiday-weekend crowd can hold both.
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