2026 GONG YOO ASIA FANMEETING TOUR <THE LONG TAKE> IN MACAU: Dates, Tickets & Venue (Macau)

One night with Gong Yoo in Cotai

The date is November 7, 2026. That evening Gong Yoo, the actor behind Coffee Prince, Train to Busan and Guardian: The Lonely and Great God (better known as Goblin), brings his Asia fanmeeting tour, THE LONG TAKE, to Macau for the first time. The venue is Studio City Event Center, inside one of the large integrated resorts on the Cotai Strip.

A fanmeeting is a different kind of night from a concert. Korean fanmeetings as a format usually mix talk segments, audience games and personal stories, with music as one part of the evening rather than the whole of it. The tour’s title points to an actor’s trade: a long take is a single unbroken shot, held without a cut.

Studio City Event Center, up close

Studio City is the film-themed resort on the southwestern side of Cotai. You can pick it out from a distance by the figure-eight Ferris wheel, the Golden Reel, which loops through the gap between its twin hotel towers. The event center is the resort’s indoor arena. It is built for concerts, boxing nights and award shows, and it seats a few thousand people.

That size suits a fanmeeting. Unlike a stadium show, the upper rows here still face a stage you can actually see, with screens carrying the close-ups. Getting from the arena to the restaurants, the casino floor and the hotel lifts means walking through long carpeted corridors. Fans who are staying in the resort usually walk back to their rooms without going outside at all.

Getting across to the Strip

Cotai is reclaimed land between Taipa and Coloane, a long way from the old peninsula. Visitors coming from Hong Kong tend to arrive one of these ways:

• Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macao Bridge: shuttle buses run across from the Hong Kong port near the airport and drop you at the Macau port. Taxis and resort shuttles cover the rest of the trip.
• Ferry: services from Hong Kong arrive at either the Outer Harbour Ferry Terminal on the peninsula or the Taipa Ferry Terminal. Taipa is the closer of the two to Cotai.
• From mainland China: walkers cross at the Border Gate (Gongbei) or the Lotus checkpoint by Hengqin, which sits very near Studio City.

The big Cotai resorts, Studio City included, have run free shuttle buses from the main ferry and border points for years. The Macau Light Rapid Transit Taipa Line also crosses the Strip. Taxi queues outside the arena get long when a show lets out, so many fans take a resort shuttle or walk to a neighbouring property instead.

November on the Cotai Strip

The timing works in your favour. November is one of Macau’s most comfortable months: typhoon season is mostly over, the air is drier, and evenings are mild enough to walk between resorts. That matters on the Strip, where buildings that look close together are often a long walk apart.

The Macau Grand Prix also falls in November. It usually runs in the middle of the month on the Guia street circuit over on the peninsula. In years when the race weekend lands near a big Cotai show, hotel rooms across the city are in high demand. A fanmeeting on November 7 brings thousands of out-of-town fans in on top of that, so most of them have their rooms sorted well before the night.

Fanmeeting etiquette inside the hall

What happens in the seats matters as much as getting there. Korean fanmeetings in Macau follow the habits of the wider K-drama fandom, with some house rules from the venue added on:

• Cameras: professional cameras and detachable lenses are almost always banned at Korean fanmeetings. Phone rules differ from tour to tour, and the organiser’s notice at the entrance is the rule that applies on the night.
• Real-name tickets: Asian fanmeeting tours often print the buyer’s name on the ticket. Fans usually bring the passport or ID they bought with, because staff may check it at the door.
• Banners and slogans: fans tend to bring small printed slogans and keep them below head height so the row behind can still see. Large boards and anything mounted on a stick are usually not allowed.
• Paying: inside the resort, cards and mobile wallets work almost everywhere, Alipay and WeChat Pay included. Hong Kong dollars are widely accepted in Macau, though change often comes back in patacas.
• Language: Gong Yoo will be speaking Korean, and fanmeetings on this circuit usually have an interpreter on stage. Cantonese, Mandarin and English all come up in conversation with staff.

Merchandise booths at Asian fanmeetings usually open hours before the show, and that is where the longest queue of the day forms. Many fans head to the merch line first and spend the rest of the afternoon around the resort.

Making a weekend of it

A fanmeeting runs a couple of hours. Macau earns the rest of your weekend. Inside Studio City itself you will find:

• Golden Reel: cabins ride the figure-eight wheel between the towers, and from the top you look out over Cotai and across the water to Hengqin.
• Batman Dark Flight: a motion-simulator ride that fits the resort’s film theme.
• Studio City Water Park: indoor and outdoor pools and slides. The outdoor section is seasonal.

Next door are the Venetian Macao, with indoor canals under a painted sky, and the Parisian Macao, with its half-scale Eiffel Tower. Taipa Village is a short taxi ride away. There, along Rua do Cunha, shops sell almond cookies and pork-chop buns, and the Taipa Houses Museum displays restored pastel Macanese villas.

The peninsula needs half a day of its own. Senado Square’s wave-patterned Portuguese paving leads uphill to the Ruins of St. Paul’s, the carved stone facade of a 17th-century church. It is part of the Historic Centre of Macao UNESCO World Heritage Site. Lord Stow’s Bakery in Coloane village, south of Cotai, is the place most closely tied to the Macanese egg tart.

Why Macau suits THE LONG TAKE

Macau fits a Korean fanmeeting well. Fans from Hong Kong, Guangdong and further afield can cross in an hour or two, and Studio City puts the arena, the hotel rooms and dinner under one roof. Gong Yoo’s films and dramas have built him a following across Asia that has lasted over many years. A night in Cotai, and a morning in the old city, is how many of those fans spend this weekend.