This week in SM: NCT DREAM's JAEMIN & CHENLE photo posts and NCT JNJM at a-nation, NCT WISH's I SPY release time, extra seats for EXO CHANYEOL's The Route in Japan plus SUHO photos, aespa's LA sellout report, Seattle app stamp and NINGNING & GISELLE birthday-party tickets, and IRENE & SEULGI's Japan mini album Cheetah — plus quick hits from NCT 127, Hearts2Hearts, RIIZE and SHINee. Every item is from official sources, with times for your time zone.
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This week in SM: NCT DREAM's JAEMIN & CHENLE photo posts and NCT JNJM at a-nation, NCT WISH's I SPY release time, extra seats for EXO CHANYEOL's The Route in Japan plus SUHO photos, aespa's LA sellout report, Seattle app stamp and NINGNING & GISELLE birthday-party tickets, and IRENE & SEULGI's Japan mini album Cheetah — plus quick hits from NCT 127, Hearts2Hearts, RIIZE and SHINee. Every item is from official sources, with times for your time zone.
🗓 Dates to save
• Oct 9, 9 AM – 11:50 PM PT — aespa SMTOWN app digital stamp within 500 m of Climate Pledge Arena, Seattle (a stamp window, not a concert time)
• Oct 10, 10 AM JST — CHANYEOL The Route (Japan) extra 2F reserved seats for Kanagawa, Aichi, Osaka, first come, first served (Oct 9, 9 PM ET / 6 PM PT). Tokyo 2F seats not included.
• Oct 12, 6 PM KST — NCT WISH 4th mini album I SPY (5 AM ET / 2 AM PT / 11 AM CEST)
• Oct 12, 8 PM KST — NINGNING '02/ECHOES fan club presale (7 AM ET / 4 AM PT / 1 PM CEST); general sale Oct 13, 8 PM KST, if seats remain
• Oct 20, 8 PM KST — NINGNING '02/ECHOES, Floating Island Convention
• Oct 21, 8 PM KST — GISELLE In MY Blood fan club presale; general sale Oct 22, 8 PM KST
• Oct 30, 8 PM KST — GISELLE In MY Blood, Myunghwa Live Hall (7 AM ET / 4 AM PT / 12 PM CET)
• Nov 4, 12 AM JST/KST — IRENE & SEULGI Japan 1st mini album Cheetah (Nov 3: 10 AM ET / 7 AM PT / 4 PM CET)
Presales require MY membership verification first.
Sources and credits
NCT DREAM — NCT DREAM official Instagram
NCT WISH — NCT WISH official YouTube (WISH's Wish in Camp EP.3 description), NCT WISH official Instagram
EXO — EXO official Japan site notice, EXO official Instagram
aespa — SMTOWN × aespa official Instagram (OSEN report; photos by Timothy Norris), aespa official X, aespa official Weverse notices, Melon Ticket and NOL Ticket pages, aespa official YouTube
Red Velvet / IRENE & SEULGI — Red Velvet official YouTube and Instagram
Selected October 9 updates from EXO, Red Velvet and SHINee: KAI’s concert vlog, a Hi Seulgi IKEA shopping-list video, and a MINHO fencing-challenge announcement. Selected upcoming schedule listings are included separately; the calendar recheck was October 10 KST.Selected October 9 updates from EXO, Red Velvet and SHINee: KAI’s concert vlog, a Hi Seulgi IKEA shopping-list video, and a MINHO fencing-challenge announcement. Selected upcoming schedule listings are included separately; the calendar recheck was October 10 KST.
Selected video updates for October 8, 2026: aespa uploaded an aepisode-tagged video, and RIIZE announced a recap video for its third-anniversary fanmeeting.Selected video updates for October 8, 2026: aespa uploaded an aepisode-tagged video, and RIIZE announced a recap video for its third-anniversary fanmeeting.
