On December 11, 2018, KBS announced that the festival would take place on December 28, 2018, at 8:30p.m. KST, also revealing the first lineup of artists as: BTS, Wanna One, Red Velvet, Seventeen, GFriend, BtoB, Apink, Hwang Chi Yeol, Sunmi, Chung Ha, Norazo, Oh My Girl, and I-dle. This year's theme is "a huge fantastical party" and expects to meet the 200% of the public's fantasies in a unique stage never seen before On December 13, a second lineup of artists was revealed: EXO, Twice, AOA, Vixx, NU'EST W, GOT7, Monsta X, NCT, Highlight's Yong Jun Hyung, 10cm, Roy Kim, Lovelyz, and Momoland. It was also revealed that the event's MCs would be EXO's
Chanyeol, Twice's
Dahyun, and BTS's
Jin. On December 20, the third and final lineup was revealed: WJSN (Cosmic Girls), Kim Yeon Ja, and Celeb Five. It was revealed that JYP and SM would create special stages. == Performers ==