On Wednesday, December 31, the annual Korean year-end music festival “2025 MBC Music Festival” is expected to be held at the MBC Dream Center in Ilsan. The live broadcast of the event will begin at 8:50 pm Korean time, and multiple streaming services will cover it. The official live streaming option is MUNIVERSE (Global K-pop Universe), which will exclusively live stream the event.

This is a paid service and a portion of the purchased tickets is expected to be donated to the Nepal Children’s Mangrove Project.

Additionally, the service can be viewed for free through MBC’s official YouTube channel, MBCkpop. This year’s event will collectively host Created by Hwang Minhyun, ALLDAY PROJECT’s Annie and SHINee’s Minho. The following article will reveal more things to look forward to at the 2025 MBC Gayo Daejeon.

Everything you need to know about the annual year-end music festival, the 2025 MBC Music Festival

MBC Music Festival is end of every year Music festival organized by Cultural Broadcasting Corporation. The event has been a long-standing tradition since 1966, starting as a singing competition and ending with awards. But around 2005, the concept changed and it remained a music festival, with performances and special stages.

At this year’s event, people from different groups artist The line-up has been assembled. From new K-pop groups such as Hearts2Hearts, CORTIS, izna, and IDID to established artists such as Stray Kids, TXT, and ATEEZ, all are expected to perform this year. In addition, some soloists such as HANRORO and YB will also perform on stage at the upcoming annual music festival.

this is complete Performance The lineup of the upcoming 2025 MBC Gayo Daejeon Music Festival:

  • NCT dream
  • NCT wishes
  • Espa
  • Ruize
  • door
  • street children
  • boys
  • treasure
  • Zero foundation
  • X together tomorrow
  • Institute of Professional Education
  • izyi
  • TXT Lian Jun
  • heart to heart
  • you
  • Seraphim
  • NanohybridX
  • MEOVV
  • trading platform
  • Curtis
  • full day program
  • boy next door
  • leave
  • ID
  • Lucy
  • SHINee Minho
  • Han Luo Luo
  • Knicks
  • Sifri
  • Turn your feet
  • blue
  • YB
  • bea perla house

In addition to regular performances, the 2025 MBC Music Festival will also showcase some cooperate On stage among the K-pop artists present. Below is a list of all the special stages scheduled for the festival:

  • Come of Age (K-pop idol born in 2007, will be 10 years old in 2026)ZERBASEO, TWS, Ryo and Sakaya (NEXZ), MEOVVVVIDS, Jung-Jung-Jung-Jung-Jung-Jung-Dickli Police (IDID).
  • Sound collaboration: HANRORO and TXT Taehyun
  • MBC Gayo Daejeon 20th Anniversary Special Stage: Ruize
  • Special stage and surprise guests: you
  • Special Medley Stage (Millennium Theme/2005 Medley): Hearts2Hearts, ALLDAY PROJECT, KickFlip, KiiiKiii, CORTIS and IDID
  • Rock Vocal Collaboration: YB and Stray Kids’ Seungmin
  • Special stage: trading platform
  • Special cooperation stage: Enemies (Hears2), Bang God-min (zna) and Woon (ILLIT)
  • Special solo stage: Liz from IVE

For the 2005 medley, the same spoiler recently surfaced on the internet, speculating that the rookie group’s cover choices are as follows:

  • Hearts2Hearts’ Jiwoo, Jueun and Ana – Lee Hyori any action
  • ALLDAY PROJECT’s Annie and Woochan – Jinusean’s telephone number
  • KICKFLIP – Kim Jong Kook’s cute
  • KiiiKiii Y – Freestyle please tell me why
  • CORTIS – Epik High fly
  • IDID – TVXQ Asahi

Therefore, fans and netizens are full of expectations for the upcoming performances and special stages of the 2025 MBC Gayo Daejeon.