K-pop night with Mary Jangmi in Sofia on August 28 - the Korean scene at Mixtape 5

A k-pop night with Mary Jangmi takes place at Sofia's Mixtape 5 club on August 28, 2026, starting at 22:00. It is a format that already has a steady audience in the Bulgarian capital.

Mary Jangmi is a DJ who has been running Sofia's k-pop nights for several years, most often at Mixtape 5 itself. The programme is not a themed party built around a single hit, but an evening devoted to Korean music and culture, k-hip-hop included alongside the main k-pop names. She has also staged special editions, among them a Valentine's night.

The reason this works in Sofia is the same as on other Balkan scenes. The k-pop audience is young, organised online and used to building its own events, because the big tours rarely come this far into Europe. When BTS or Blackpink play the continent, the nearest stop is usually Paris or Berlin. Here, a night in a club stands in for a concert that is never going to arrive.

Mixtape 5 is one of Sofia's longest-running clubs, and in its calendar nights like this sit next to metal and punk shows in the same week. It is a venue that refuses to specialise, and that is what gives the programme its range.

Tickets run from eight to twenty euros, roughly 490 to 1,230 denars, through bilet.bg. For readers in Macedonia who follow the Korean scene, Sofia is the closest city with a regular programme of this kind.