Jin Hit News in English

  HYBE is currently struggling with the spread of malicious fake news targeting its affiliated idol group, BTS. According to the entertainment industry on the 3rd, an image of unknown origin containing streaming data for "SWIM," the title track of BTS's 5th full-length album ARIRANG, rapidly spread across social media platforms such as X (formerly Twitter). The image claimed that, as of the 1st, "Swim" had recorded 5,198 daily streams on Spotify—representing a drop of over 10 million streams compared to the previous day, or a 99.95% decrease. These figures spread beyond social media to stock discussion forums on portal sites, raising concerns among some investors about potential impacts on the company's stock price. However, the data was confirmed to be false. HYBE stated, "The image in question is not based on official aggregated data, and the figures themselves are unrealistic," adding, "After directly confirming with Spotify, we verified th...

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 120,000 people expected at Goyang Stadium fro  the 9th to 12th Encouraging extended stays and local spending beyond the concert Launching large-scale sales linked to local businesses 920 personnel deployed to strengthen safety management  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Goyang City in Gyeonggi Province is preparing to welcome visitors by transforming the entire city into purple—the symbolic color if global icon BTS—ahead of the opening concert of their world tour "ARIRANG." Through this event, the city aims to strengthen its brand as a "stay-oriented concert destination" and to spread the economic impact of the large influx of visitors throughout the region.  ● 17.2% increase in floating population during SEVENTEEN tour The city expects approximately 120,000 domestic and international attendees to visit the concerts, which will be held over three days—on the 9th, 11th, and 12th—at Goyang Stadium. The Goyang Urban Management Co...