Yesterday, a concert with Monsta X, Se7en, Tahiti, and 7 O’Clock was put on in London at Wembley Arena by KPOPKNIGHT. The venue holds about 13,000 people, which was a problem because only 700 tickets were sold and reports were that as low as 300 people showed up.

UK kpop fans! 🇬🇧

Unfortunately the KPOP K Night party in Wembley with MonstaX, Se7en and more artists has sold 700 tickets and are NOW letting people go in for free, please encourage the artists and join roght now! This is just saddening 😢 pic.twitter.com/2udxgMoED4 — BTS Europe (@BTS__Europe) January 27, 2018

Autentycznie właśnie się popłakałam przez tą sytuację z mx związaną z kpopnight w Londynie, chłopacy lecieli kilkanaście godzin samolotem, zapewne bardzo dużo trenowali, żeby ostatecznie wystąpić przed garstką ludzi licząca jakieś 300 osób, w miejscu które mogłoby zmieścić 13k pic.twitter.com/0NAqDpwMWT — ketchup (@buyyfavxpig) January 27, 2018

The weird part is that this wasn’t all due to a lack of interest, as many people didn’t even know the event was going on.

So the event was just a mess, but that’s not all that newsworthy since K-pop events are frequently a mess. What was noteworthy, however, was the event organizers giving out Monsta X’s hotel information to fans and invading their privacy, presumably out of desperation to sell tickets.

I want to write a book about all the shit that went down in kpopknight. How the organizers acted, what kind of sick games they played. THEY INVITED FANS TO MONSTA X'S HOTEL. ON PURPOSE. Worker at Wembley told us it must've been a PUBLICITY TRICK.#Kpopknight #wembley #monstax — meri _wonho smiled at me (@submewri) January 27, 2018

Before the concert one organizer offered discount codes. He also talked about meeting MX at their hotel. He said he was going to share the hotel information.

In the queue I heard they had told that to fans in the exchange booth, and they invited them to MX's hotel — meri _wonho smiled at me (@submewri) January 27, 2018

And the same guy came up to us with new unplanned information, all throughout the day, like 'letting 50ppl go in at 17.00' and '50ppl get free se7en m&gs'. And this bullshit behavior got Wembley's staff angry as well. — meri _wonho smiled at me (@submewri) January 27, 2018

I did not want to publish these before it was all over. But there you fucking go. He wanted fans to promote for him and he promised some stuff like this. #kpopknight pic.twitter.com/AZ2gQ3LNEZ — meri _wonho smiled at me (@submewri) January 27, 2018

He kept promising fans stuff he would not be able to do. Fanmeets and photos. Yet he physically brought fans to the hotel and we witnessed it.

We tried to talk to the Wembley staff about it but it was no use. Basically all of the kpopknight organizers were all in it. I feel sick — meri _wonho smiled at me (@submewri) January 27, 2018

To add what my friend witnessed regarding the hotel visits. Joshua was staying in the same hotel as MX. He told fans stuff like he knows what MX is doing right now/that they're having breakfast. MX had little to no security with them. They walked to the arena, fans ran after them — meri _wonho smiled at me (@submewri) January 28, 2018

So not only was the concert by all accounts an absolute disaster, but the organizers themselves were disgustingly unethical. Great.

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Update

Additionally, MONSTA X’s transportation crashed into a pole.