# Pentaport Rock Festival

Incheon Pentaport Rock Festival (Korean: 펜타포트 락 페스티벌) is a rock festival which is held annually in Incheon, South Korea for three days in August. Launched in 2006, it is considered one of the biggest live music events in South Korea. The festival covers various genres, but mainly rock music and electronic music. The name came from the five main themes of the festival: music, passion, environment friendly, DIY, and friendship.

## Location

The festival takes place at Dream Park, southern part of Incheon Metropolitan City. The site is about 30 kilometers west from downtown Seoul and it used to be a landfill of capital area like World Cup Park.
Due to COVID-19 pandemic, after being postponed for two months, the festival was held virtually for the first time in August 2020, engaging around 780,000 online viewers. The festival was held virtually for the second time in October 2021.

## History

The festival originally started in 1999 under the name Tri-port Rock Festival, a two-day rock festival held in Songdo, Incheon. Among the expected huge line-up were Deep Purple, Rage Against the Machine, Dream Theater, and The Prodigy but the event was cancelled due to operational and logistics challenges in the first year. After a seven-year hiatus, the festival was rebranded in 2006 with its current name, Pentaport. Organized by Incheon Metropolitan City, the Pentaport Rock Festival has since featured aspiring and prominent musicians and collectives from Korea and around the world.

## Line-ups
### 2024

| | Friday, August 2 | Saturday, August 3 | Sunday, August 4 |
| KB Kookmin Card Starshop Stage | Turnstile Se So Neon Wave to Earth Indigo la End GUMX Lacuna KARDI | Jack White Silica Gel Girl in Red Lee Seung Yoon Broken Valentine Hanroro The Fix | Jannabi Day6 Ryokuoushoku Shakai Glen Check Touched Creepy Nuts Redoor |
| Hillstate Stage | Kim Gordon Toe Broccoli, You Too? Fire EX. Remnants of the Fallen Amado Lee Jaram Band KAVE | Ride Dark Mirror ov Tragedy Parannoul Goonam Yuta Orisaka Chudahye Chagis Seaweed Mustache | Sepultura Lee Sang-eun Sunwoo Jung-a Say Sue Me The Poles Playbook jisokuryClub |
| Global Stage | QWER OurR Far East Asian Tigers Catch The Young Beirut Taxi Default. | Golden Mammoth Yeonjeong Red C Moher Lif | MEMI Sailor Honeymoon Kim Neuk Dayangsung Asadal |

### 2023

| | Friday, August 4 | Saturday, August 5 | Sunday, August 6 |
| KB Pay Stage | Ellegarden Kim Yoon-ah The Volunteers George Galaxy Express Band Nah Adios Audio | The Strokes The Black Skirts Lee Seung Yoon Silica Gel Method Surl Bosudong Cooler feat. BXH | Kim Chang-wan band Se So Neon Cherry Filter Hitsujibungaku Kwon Jin-ah Nerd Connection Dasutt |
| Incheon Airport Stage | Chang Kiha Kirinji My Aunt Mary Romantic Punch The Poles Dabda Løren | Idiotape Jambinai Rad Museum Otoboke Beaver Kim Il Du and Bulsechul Park So Eun Jungwoo | Ginger Root Car, the Garden Wave to Earth Leenalchi Numcha Damons Year Wendy Wander |
| Musinsa Stage | Debtors The Sound Cotoba Green Flame Boys | Snake Chicken Soup Kim Neuk Crackberry | Home Slice The Fix Moskva Surfing Club |
| Midnight Stage | No Brain | 250 | |

### 2022

| | Friday, August 5 | Saturday, August 6 | Sunday, August 7 |
| KB Pay Stage | Nell Crying Nut Sunwoo Jung-a Lee Mu-jin Elephant Gym Crack Shot | Vampire Weekend Jannabi Se So Neon Japanese Breakfast Bibi Silica Gel CHS | Jaurim Idiotape The Volunteers Phum Viphurit Adoy Cherry Filter Wave to Earth |
| Cass Stage | Tahiti 80 Jukjae Youra CNEMA TRPP Hyodo and BASS Jisokury | Deafheaven Crack Cloud Oohyo Lang Lee oceanfromtheblue Hathaw9y | Mogwai Lee Seung-yoon Glen Check Say Sue Me Meaningful Stone Drinking Boys and Girls Choir The Bowls |
| Incheon Airport Stage | Fuzzy Pug Bobby Pins | Soumbalgwang Cram Nuclear Idiots | Bongjeingan Skipjack Hwanho |
| Midnight Stage | Nucksal x CADEJO | STUTS (feat. JJJ, Sumin, Phum Viphurit) | |

### 2021

| Saturday, October 9 | Sunday, October 10 |
| Mogwai Daybreak Leenalchi Adoy Jeong Hong-il METHOD Nerd Connection DIH | Phum Viphurit 10cm The Linda Lindas Jukjae The Volunteers N.Flying Kim Sa-wol Silica Gel Hey Men |

### 2020

| Friday, August 16 | Saturday, August 17 |
| Jaurim Travis Nell The Ssaw Re:Union with Light and Salt Bewhy Se So Neon Obangsingwa Band DALE | Guckkasten Boohwal Idiotape Galaxy Express Kingston Rudieska Dongyang Gozupa Jackingcong |

### 2019

| | Friday, August 9 | Saturday, August 10 | Sunday, August 11 |
| KB Kookmin Starshop Stage | The Fray YB Jang Beom-june Kim Jong-seo | Cornelius Two Door Cinema Club Against the Current Jambinai Romantic Punch Rock N Roll Radio The Chairman meet Caotun Boys | Weezer The Vamps Sevdaliza Crying Nut NST & The Soul Sauce Sonic Stones |
| Coke Stage | Sunset Rollercoaster Vassline HarryBigButton Rux April 2nd | Steelheart Broccoli, You Too? Wiretap In My Ear Gonne Choi Victim Mentality Drinking Boys and Girls Choir Riot Kidz Triss | Pia Bulnabang Star Sausage Club 9 and the Numbers So Yoon The Barberettes The Rose |
| Incheon Airport Stage | This is the City Life (Tiger Disco, Horan and Yohei Hasegawa) Yamagata Tweakster Seoul Sanggyeong Band T.R.A.P BADLAMB GoryMurgy Gyeongin Expressway | K-pop Party of Sadness (SKPP) (Johan Electric Bach, GCM, Mati Land and Manna) TearDrop Hammering Abyss Amazing Show Monoflo | CH1969 DJS (Jeon Yonghyeon, Hodori and Mimi) Batu 88 BALAZ Jung Yoo-chun Blues Band Budung Arches Band |

### 2018

| | Friday, August 10 | Saturday, August 11 | Sunday, August 12 |
| KB Kookmin Starshop Stage | Jaurim Daybreak Romantic Punch iamnot | Nine Inch Nails Mike Shinoda The Koxx Crossfaith Crash Jannabi | My Bloody Valentine Hyukoh Hoobastank Walk the Moon Life & Time Dearcloud |
| Kona Card Stage | Pia Loudness Sonic Stones Hammering | The Bloody Beetroots Glen Check Marian Hill Sunwoo Jung-a DTSQ Land of Peace South Carnival | Starsailor Suchmos Se So Neon never young beach Adoy O.O.O MDSZ |
| Incheon Airport Stage | DJ Tezz Cherry Coke Crucial Star Kisum & Jeon Ji-yoon Microdot Haon R4-19 Honeypepper | Night Tempo & Yasunoji Luna Pirates Nahzam Sue and Big Waves Vincent Corvec Say Sue Me N.Flying Kimperi Dabda Strangely Arousing | Wetter Xin Seha AASSA NST & The Soul Sauce Eastern Standard Sound Wantae Riot Kidz McGuffin |

### 2017

| | Friday, August 11 | Saturday, August 12 | Sunday, August 13 |
| Chevrolet Stage | Guckkasten Hyeongdon & Deajun & Rose Motel Kang San-ae Kingston Rudieska | Bastille Kiha and the Faces DNCE Pia Circa Waves Thornapple | Justice Idiotape 5 Seconds of Summer Zion.T Crystal Lake The Solutions |
| KB Kookmin Card Stage | Dua Lipa Bolbbalgan4 Her Name In Blood Asian Chairshot Bupyeong All-star Big Band | You Me At Six Akdong Musician Swanky Dank Issues Lowdown 30 Vassline The Vane | Charli XCX Monni Sundara Karma Lee Yong-won Samuel Seo & Qim Isle Oriental Showcus Kimoki FM |
| Heineken Green Stage | Lazybone No.1 Korean Ska Wakers DJ Ska Champion DJ Sugar Suk-Yuel April Second Honeyst | Broccoli, You Too? Lee Seung-yeol Adoy Bulnabang Star Sausage Club Imlay O.When O3ohn Decadent Land Of Peace | Kirara Dguru Ffan Tiger Disco Gogostar Se So Neon MDSZ Cogason |

### 2016

| | Friday, August 12 | Saturday, August 13 | Sunday, August 14 |
| Pentaport Stage | Suede Nell Run River North Galaxy Express We Are The Night | Weezer Crossfaith Grouplove 10cm Daybreak Romantic Punch | Panic! at the Disco Two Door Cinema Club The Koxx Spyair Jung Joon-il Peterpan Complex |
| Dream Stage | Special Stage for Kim Kwang-seok The Oral Cigarettes Crash Method Rux Pentaport Super Band Boys in the Kitchen Inlayer | Nothing But Thieves Idiotape At the Drive-In Life and Time The Preatures Iamnot Oriental Showcus | The Vaccines Peppertones Dearcloud Fromm Jannabi Black Honey Maan |
| Cass Blue Stage | Zion.T Microdot / Geeks Ja Mezz / Incredivle Rudepaper | DickPunks Sultan of the Disco Danpyunsun and the Sailors Jun Bum Sun and the Yangbans | Monarchy Xin Seha LoveXstereo Ludistelo |

### 2015

| | Friday, August 7 | Saturday, August 8 | Sunday, August 9 |
| Pentaport Stage | Scorpions Kim Chang-wan Band The Used Yellow Monsters Monni | Seo Taiji The Kooks Pia Ego-Wrappin' Kim Banjang & Windy City Soran | The Prodigy YB Crash The Cribs The Solutions No.1 Korean & South Carnival |
| Dream Stage | N.EX.T Fear, and Loathing in Las Vegas Jambinai Steelheart 13 Steps A'Zbus | 10cm Lee Seung-yeol Swanky Dank Kim Sa-rang Sheppard Asian Chairshot Jannabi | Mew Thornapple Mamas Gun Sunwoo Jung-a Whowho Raven Reflex |
| Moonlight Stage | Diablo Oriental Showcus Yeonnamdong Dumb & Dumber Blue Eyelids Angry Bear | Bye Bye Sea Maan Method Seenroot Larry's Pizza | Boys in the Kitchen Monkeys The Roosters Trash |

### 2014

| | Friday, August 1 | Saturday, August 2 | Sunday, August 3 |
| Pentaport Stage | Lee Seung-hwan Daybreak Suicidal Tendencies Pia Maxïmo Park | Kasabian Idiotape Boys Like Girls Crash Orange Range Rose Motel | Travis Starsailor Bulldog Mansion Romantic Punch Kingston Rudie Ska Skull & Haha |
| Dream Stage | Crossfaith Thornapple Goonamguayeoridingstella Lizzy Borden Phusmental Dempagumi.inc | The Horrors Peppertones The Inspector Cluzo Dearcloud The Solutions No.1 Korean Life And Time | Jang Phil-soon & Jo Dong-hee & Oh So-young Urban Zakapa Scandal Harry Big Button We Are The Night Acollective Small O |
| Moonlight Stage | Wangel Third Stone Hugh Keice A'zbus My Skin Against Your Skin Baekma City Hall Band | Ludistelo Lee Ji-Hyung Mimi Sisters Reflex Ashgray 18 Gram | Wangel No Respect for Beauty Rux Four Brothers Jannabi Garlics Red Flower |

### 2013

| | Friday, August 2 | Saturday, August 3 | Sunday, August 4 |
| Pentaport Stage | Deulgukhwa Skid Row Testament Wiretrap In My Ear The Big Pink | Suede Yoon Do Hyun Band Story of the Year Hot Potato Peace DickPunks | Fall Out Boy Chk Chk Chk Kang San-ae Yellow Monsters Blood Red Shoes Romantic Punch |
| Dream Stage | Pornograffiti Monni Steelheart Naty S.L.K. Manggakhwa Fine | Glasvegas Man With A Mission Oh Ji-eun Soran Sioen Black Bag Electric Eel Utopia | Mamas Gun Peterpan Complex Swan Dive Gogostar Hemenway Bye Bye Badman Monkeys Trash |
| Moonlight Stage | Beenzino & Dok2 Junggigo Born Kim Used Cassettes New Blue Death | One More Chance Autumn Vacation Lalasweet Prelude Magna Fall | Windy City Skull & Haha Seoul Riddim Superclub Siberian Husky |

### 2012

| | Friday, August 10 | Saturday, August 11 | Sunday, August 12 |
| Pentaport Stage | Baekdusan Super Session Top Band 2 quarterfinal Toxic Icy cider Gate Flowers Axiz | Snow Patrol Ash Fact The Koxx The Qemists Kingston Rudieska | Manic Street Preachers Crystal Castles Hot Potato 10cm Coldrain Daybreak |
| Dream Stage | Windy city Lasse Lindh w/ Linus' Blanket Bye Bye Sea Eastern Sidekick Mongoose DickPunks We Save Strawberries | Crash SiM Art Of Parties Vassline Broken Valentine My Skin Against Your Skin | The Inspector Cluzo The Moonshiners Hyeongdon and Daejun Lee Seung-Yeol Rose Motel Bye Bye Badman Tizzy Bac Mocca |
| Lakeside Stage | Joaband Lucite Rabbit Have A Tea Solsol Springwind Electric Eel | Sweet Sorrow Rooftop Moonlight Soran Joo Yoonha Mushrooms | Huckleberry Finn Urban Zakapa Lalasweet Speak Out Hologram Film |

### 2011

| | Friday, August 5 | Saturday, August 6 | Sunday, August 7 |
| Pentaport Stage | B.o.B Miss A Drunken Tiger and Yoon Mi-rae GD & TOP and Taeyang | Korn No Brain Schizo Maximum The Hormone Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter Wiretrap In My Ear | Simple Plan The Ting Tings Boohwal Neon Trees Idiotape Smacksoft |
| Dream Stage | Wonder Bird W&Whale Go Chic Linus' Blanket Pidgoen Milk The Ghost Spardac Choi Go-eun | Plain White T's Garion Mamas Gun Vassline The Geeks Boni Jambinai | Chk Chk Chk Galaxy Express Joe Brooks The Black Skirts Jang Jae-in Super 8 Beat Eastern Sidekick Jo Gil-sang |
| Groove Session | Plastic Kid DJ Yup fet. Koonta Conan feat. MC Goltee J-Path | Dr. Lektroluv Limzi Astro Voize Inside Core | Dexpistols Oriental Funk Stew DJ Ryoo Kingmck Shut Da Mouth |

### 2010

| | Friday, July 23 | Saturday, July 24 | Sunday, July 25 |
| Pentaport Stage | Stereophonics Jo Duk-Hwan Crying Nut Kang San-ae Galaxy Express Lun Hui | Hoobastank LCD Soundsystem YB Kishidan Guckkasten Biuret | Ian Brown Dir En Grey Kim Chang-wan Ego-Wrappin' Lee Han-Chul Huckleberry Finn Super Kidd |
| Dream Stage | Pia The Like Oh Ji-eun Wu Bai & China Blue Lee Jang-Hyuk & Oh So-Young Ninesin Strikers | Vassline Wagdug Futuristic Unity Ynot? No. 1 Korean Lee Sang-Min Band Daybreak 10cm Phonebooth | Hot Potato The Grates Kingstone Rudieska Opshop Yellow Monsters Serengetti Orgeltanz |
| Groove Session | DJ Yoda Inside Core East Collective 2E Love | Pendulum (DJ Set) Idiotape Astro Voize | Kap10Kurt Revolver 69 Mongoloid J-Path |

### 2009

| | Friday, July 24 | Saturday, July 25 | Sunday, July 26 |
| Big Top Stage & Pentaport Stage | No Brain GoGo Star Rux Black Syndrome Sogyumo Acasia Band Sugardonut Aggressive Dogs (a.k.a. UZI-ONE) Acidman Crystal Rain Trans Fixion | Deftones N.EX.T 99Anger The Black Skirts Guckkasten W&Whale Schizo Eskimo Joe Cocore Kingston Rudieska Hanumpa Hollow Jan | Galaxy Express GUMX Nevada51 The Inspector Cluzo The Plastic Day Apollo 18 Lenka Loro's Seoul Electric Band Killa Kela Huckleberry Finn |
| Groove Session | Cosmic Gate Gon Conan Risque Rhythm Machine Kentaro VJ Zirostyle | Astro Voize Idiotape Ujn&nova Karizma VJ Zirostyle | Dexpistols Lefto Unjin Yahel VJ Sol |

### 2008

| | Friday, July 25 | Saturday, July 26 | Sunday, July 27 |
| Big Top Stage | Ellegarden Crying Nut The Music The Go! Team T.A. Copy Copy Machine | Travis Jaurim The Vines Lee Han Choul and Run Run Runawayz The Ratios End of Fashion Superkidd | Underworld Kasabian Delispice Hard-Fi Oh! Brothers Ozomatli Windy City |
| Pentaport Stage | Peterpan Complex Sweater Double Famous Rocket Diary Beautiful Days Burning Hepburn Star Bow Friday Ins | The Gossip The Moonshiners Devils Sogyumo Acasia Band with Yozoh Mary Story Loro's Broccoli, You Too? Napoleon Dynamite Blue Near Mother | Feeder Tricky GUMX Inoran Galaxy Express Lowdown 30 D.I.C.E. Paprika Gutz |
| Groove Session | Kid B DJ Rap Shai Fin | DJ Smood (Feat. MC Make-One) London Elektricity Accomplice Psyko | 3rd Coast Princess Superstar Sunshine Flamenco (Feat. MC SaphFire) |

### 2007

| | Friday, July 27 | Saturday, July 28 | Sunday, July 29 |
| Big Top Stage | The Chemical Brothers OK Go Love And Peace Diablo The Human Instinct Gov't Mule Schizo | L'Arc-en-Ciel Ocean Colour Scene Testament Crash Vodka Rain Vanilla Unity | Muse Crying Nut Ash Asian Kung-Fu Generation Nell Vassline |
| Pentaport Stage | The Answer Wiretap In My Ear Hollow Jan Pearl's Day Tsuchiya Anna Down In A Hole Yellow Puffer Bay 21 Scott | Rainy Sun Stevie Salas 69 Chambers Peterpan Complex Johnny Royal Ray Kang Moombatrap The Strikers Starbow | Dr. Core 911 Yi Sung Yol Every Single Day Rux Sugardonut The Melody Copy Machine Cool Age Andsome |
| Groove Session | DJ Takuma BT Hoola-Loops Andy & Stu | DJ Smood Fantastic Plastic Machine (Feat. Atsushi of Dragon Ash) Kid B DJ Guru | DJ Beejay DJ J-Path DJ Hydro Om-Shall-Om |

### 2006

| | Friday, July 28 | Saturday, July 29 | Sunday, July 30 |
| Big Top Stage | The Strokes N.EX.T Snow Patrol Sister's Barbershop Pia Sugardonut Yeah Yeah Yeahs | Placebo The Black Eyed Peas Psy Dragon Ash Sinawe Crash Vassline | Franz Ferdinand Kula Shaker Jaurim DramaGods Nell Lee Han Choul T.A Copy |
| Mnet.com Stage | Jason Mraz My Aunt Mary Miyavi Cuba Lee Hyun Suk Kang In O Ghetto Bombs Super Kidd | Fake? Butterfly Effect Schizo Hachi & TJ Vodka Rain Pearl's Day Beautiful Days Desperado Mongoose Cloud Cuckoo Land | Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Korean Casting) Story of the Year Dr. Core 911 Vanilla Unity E Z Hyoung Atmosphere Windy City Oh! Brothers Common Ground Monni |
| Groove Session | Oriental Funk Stew Andy & Stu Junkie XL DJ Sunshine DJ Devil VJ The Maze | DJ Jaimo DJ Paust Ken Ishii DJ Unkle Airmix VJ The Maze | DJ Guru DJ Hyper Makoto & MC Stride DJ Kuma VJ The Maze |