The tour was officially announced by their company
SM Entertainment on April 26, 2013, with two dates in
Seoul at the Olympic Park. The South Korean dates are the first time the group has performed solo in South Korea in two years following their concerts on the
2011 Girls' Generation Tour in July 2011. Plans for a fan tour and tickets to the Seoul concerts exclusively for overseas fans were announced at the same time through SM Entertainment's
Culture & Content website. On June 5, concerts in Taiwan were announced through the
Taipei Arena website, for July 20 and 21, 2013. At the tour press conference on June 8, it was announced the girls would be heading to the
United States and
South America following the group's concert in Taipei in July, however, this never came to fruition. On June 22, 2013, the group announced at the 2013 Asia Style Collection held in Singapore that they would return to the city in October on the tour. On August 2, 2013, Dyandra Entertainment, a promoter in
Indonesia announced the Indonesian concert through their Twitter account. The Indonesian concert was held on September 14 at the
Mata Elang International Stadium and was the group's first solo concert in Indonesia. On August 15, it was announced that the concert in Singapore will be held on October 12, 2013. All 8,000 tickets were sold out within a day. On November 1, 2013, SM True Facebook official fanpage, a promoter of
SM Entertainment in
Thailand announced that the concert in Thailand will be held on January 11, 2014, at
Impact, Muang Thong Thani. Tickets were sold out in 10 minutes. On February 15, 2014, during the group's first concert in
Macau, Taeyeon announced that the show would be the last stop of the tour but that their next world tour would be starting soon. Sooyoung then added that following their
third Japan arena tour which would be starting soon, a new tour would commence to promote their new mini album
Mr.Mr. ==Set list==