Stray Kids Launch 'RUN IT' World Tour With Five Seoul KSPO Dome Shows: What to Expect Before 'THIS & THAT' Drops August 7

Stray Kids open the Stray Kids RUN IT world tour 2026 at Seoul's KSPO Dome on July 25 — the first of five Seoul shows across July 25, 26, and 29 and August 1 and 2, staging a near-week-long homecoming run before the group disperses across international dates. The tour is their fourth headline world tour and arrives at a moment of measurable commercial momentum: pre-release single 'RUN IT,' which dropped June 24, reached No. 1 on the US iTunes chart within 24 hours, with the full 10th mini album 'THIS & THAT' following on August 7. All five Seoul dates are sold out.

KSPO Dome — formally the Olympic Gymnastics Arena in Seoul's Olympic Park — holds approximately 14,000 seats per show, placing the five-night run at roughly 70,000 total tickets. The July 25, 26, and 29 dates span a Thursday-Friday-Monday structure before the tour resumes August 1 and 2 for a final two-night Seoul close — the last performances before the group moves to international venues. The Seoul residency serves as both the emotional launch of the world tour and the live introduction to material from 'THIS & THAT' before the album's August 7 release.

The RUN IT tour campaign follows a structural template Stray Kids have refined across multiple comeback cycles: pre-release single, hometown residency, album drop, international tour. The previous iteration of that template — the dominATE world tour, which included Seoul dates at the larger Gocheok Sky Dome — delivered some of the group's highest single-tour attendance figures. Returning to KSPO Dome rather than Gocheok signals either a logistical preference for the venue's acoustics or a deliberate front-loading of intimacy before the album's release expands the show's production scale.

'THIS & THAT' arrives August 7, 2026 at 1PM KST as an eight-track release — Stray Kids' 10th mini album in the format. The announcement teaser, a 51-second cinematic cut released alongside the tour reveal in June, established a visual grammar built around high-contrast black-and-white cinematography, industrial interiors, and desert landscapes: a harder aesthetic than their recent album cycles and one that aligns more closely with the group's self-produced 3RACHA sub-unit work. 'RUN IT' operates as the album's sonic entry point, establishing the tone before the full eight-track sequence arrives.

The nine-month gap between 'THIS & THAT' and Stray Kids' previous major release elevated preorder demand: the album tracked at a pace consistent with their million-seller previous releases. Members Bang Chan, Lee Know, and Hyunjin spent the interim period on individual brand partnerships — Fendi, Gucci, and GUESS respectively — while Bang Chan, Changbin, and Han (3RACHA) were active in writing and production sessions that are expected to feature heavily in the eight-track album's credits.

'RUN IT' dropped June 24 with a full music video and functioned as the simultaneous public launch for both the tour and the album. Within its first week the track reached No. 1 on the US iTunes chart, topped Oricon's single chart in Japan, and charted across European and Southeast Asian markets. The track carries production and writing credits from Bang Chan, Changbin, and Han — maintaining the internal creative control that has become Stray Kids' most commercially distinctive quality within the JYP Entertainment roster and the defining through-line of every major release since MIROH.