Jin Hit News in English

  BTS are set to release their fifth studio album, ARIRANG, in the second half of March. However, excitement has already spread worldwide since the beginning of the year, when the news was first revealed. The group's comeback—after three-year hiatus due to military service—has been met with high expectations for something "new," highlighting their maturity and distinctive style. The global promotional campaigns prepared by BigHit Music have further fueled the hype as the comeback data approaches. These include a large installation featuring the BTS logo at the Sejong Center for Performing Arts in Seoul, lighting up the Empire State Building in purple, and the "What Is Your Love Song?" Valentine's Day campaign in major cities worldwide. Adding to the excitement are rumours directly related to the music of ARIRANG, which have further thrilled netizens. In particular, fans have been closely watching a list of female artists Rumoured to be "highly likely...

  Original article:  EDaily ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Government announces anti-price gouging measures at National Tourism Strategy meeting Triggered by soaring accommodation prices linked to BTS... President Lee Jae-myung calls it an "outdated and regressive practice" No corrective orders or warnings... First violation: 5-day suspension for lodging, 30 days for taxis Lodging sector to introduce a "voluntary advance rate-reporting system" with price caps ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Accommodation providers that unilaterally cancel existing reservations and resell rooms are higher prices, as well as taxis that charge unreasonably high fares, will face immediate business suspensions if caught.  On the afternoon of the 25th, President Lee Jae-myung presided over an expanded National Tourism Strategy Meeting and announced comprehensive measures to eradicate price gouging. Following the surge in accommodation prices linked to the BTS concert in Busan and...

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Accomodation prices surge 7.5 times ahead of BTS's Busan concert ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The government is mobilizing strong punitive measures to curb the sharp rise in accommodation prices surrounding BTS's concert in Busan.  Going forward, any business found engaging in price gouging will be subject to immediate suspension, even for a first offense. A mandatory advance price reporting system will also be introduced for lodging facilities. On the 25th, the Ministry of Economy and Finance announced comprehensive countermeasures against excessive pricing at the National Tourism Strategy Meeting.  The government defined price gouging to include failing to display prices, excessively raising dates during peak seasons, and unilaterally canceling existing reservations in order to resell rooms at higher prices.  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Fair trade commission finds rates up to 7.5 times higher than usual These measures f...

  Original article:  MHN Sports ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ V (Kim Taehyung) of BTS has drawn attention after receiving lavish praise from a Japanese plastic surgery specialist, who described his face as being of “national treasure” caliber. A well-known Japanese plastic surgeon analyzed V’s face on social media and could not hide his admiration, calling his looks “legendary” and “worthy of national treasure status.” He explained, “V has a face where cuteness and handsomeness are perfectly harmonized, and he also exudes sexiness. People with this kind of charm often have an androgynous vibe with soft, feminine contours. Taehyung’s face shape is gently rounded, and even the tip of his nose is slightly rounded. But above all, what truly captures attention is his eyes.” He continued, “With just one look, he can instantly captivate women. It’s only natural that he ranks No. 1 as the world’s most handsome man. Reaching that level requires immense popularity and charisma...

  Original article:  Newsis ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ More than 100,000 people rushed to reserve tickets for the free concert at Gwanghwamun Square, held to celebrate the comeback of global superstar group BTS and their fifth full-length album, ARIRANG.  According to industry sources on the 23rd, as soon as ticket sales opened at 8:00 p.m. in NOL Ticket, a massive surge of users flooded site, resulting in a waiting queue exceeding 100,000 people.  Even after successfully accessing the site, many users experienced "white screen" errors or were reset during the payment process with messages stating that the seats had already been purchased. As of 8:35 p.m., just 35 minutes after sales began, 99% of all tickets had been sold out.  Police issued a strong warning against proxy purchasing and high-priced resale scams related to the ticketing process.  During a briefing that morning, the Seoul Metropolitan Police Chief stated, "So far, we have requested ...

  Original article:  Naver ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Local Businesses Look Forward to BTS's March Concert ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ "Let's split accomodation costs near Gwanghwamun, and find a partner to attend the concert and explore Korean food together!" This post appeared on the ARMY Seoul Stay  website, which was created ahead of BTS's comeback concert to be held on 21 of next month at Gwanghwamun Square in Seoul. The site was voluntarily set up by fans from around the world to share travel information ahead of their trips to Korea.  On the message boards, posts are appearing in languages from all over the world, including English, Chinese, Japanese, Indonesian, Malay, and Arabic. One Indonesian fan shared "tips for traveling cheaply in Korea," writing, "You can buy rice and side dishes at convenience stores for 2,000-4,000 won, eat gimbap at Gimbap Cheonguk, and enjoy street foods at Gwangjang Market." A fan who said t...