Fan Gets Called Out For Smoking At Seats During “2025 SMTown Live”

SM Entertainment recently hosted 2025 SMTown Live. Groups and artists under the company gathered to perform various songs and remakes.

The concert was a huge success, filling the huge Inspire Stadium in Incheon. Fans were thrilled to see their favorite groups live! One concert-goer put a wet blanket on the fun for others, however, when they were discovered to be smoking an electric cigarette (vape) in the standing seats. A fan nearby caught the concert-goer holding onto their vape.

They witnessed and photographed the concert-goer taking drags of their vape in between acts.

In a now viral tweet, they lament how the concert-goer was not caught by security despite having smoked during all of the five hours of the concert.

혹시 언제부터 콘서트장 안에서 흡연이 가능했나요? 5시간내내 피고 있는걸 시큐들은 왜 안 잡는 거지? pic.twitter.com/edd6Z1i6Gb

— 🚨 (@siren2232) January 12, 2025

Since when did they allow smoking inside the venue? Why did security not catch them when they were smoking for 5 hours straight?

— siren2232

Some complained that the security were not doing their jobs.

시큐는 이런거나 관리해라
몰찍이 젤 양반인데 카메라만 죽어라 잡음 https://t.co/z5otIZzdPw

— 쑥떡 (@ssukteok) January 13, 2025

The security should be catching these people, instead of dying to catch those trying to take fancams because those are the most well-behaved.

— ssukteok

Others criticized their lack of control.

아니 진짜 자제력 없는 거 개웃기다 https://t.co/92vik6XmfN

— ꕤ (@crepusae) January 12, 2025

It’s so funny how they have zero self-control.

— crepusae

This seems to be a more common occurrence than most would think. Another netizen shared a story of how they witnessed something similar at an EXO concert.

근데 이런 사람 개많음.. 2019년도에…. 엑소 스탠딩에서 어떤언니 가방안에 머리처박고 전담핌ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ그 구역에서만 연기가 모락모락… 난 불난줄 알았음…. https://t.co/YkC49Emrkq

— 뺘악🕯️ (@hunib1b1) January 13, 2025

There’s so many people like this though… In 2019, some unnie kept shoving her head in her bag to vape, in the standing area of EXO’s concert LOL. Smoke kept wafting around that area… I thought there was a fire or something.

— hunib1b1

Most concerts do not allow smoking or vaping in the venue. Instead, there are smoking areas outside designated.