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[Article translation] BTS to Perform New and Hit Songs at Gwanghwamun... HYBE: "One-Hour Concert for Safety Reasons'

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  Original article:  NGO ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ "Performing time decided considering the nature of an outdoor public venue... Minimizing inconvenience to citizens" Seoul Metropolitan Government: "The concerts structure and duration are entirely under HYBE's authority" ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ BTS's free comeback concert celebrating the release of their fifth full-length album, BTS THE COMEBACK LIVE: ARIRANG, scheduled for next month on the 21st at Gwanghwamun Square in Seoul, is expected to feature not only new songs but also their past hit tracks.  According to the music industry on the 28th, their agency BigHit Music under HYBE is currently discussing a stage lineup that will include tracks from their fifth studio album Arirang as well as globally beloved hit songs.  This concert has drawn significant attention as it marks the first time in three years and nine months that BTS will present their new album on stage to a global audien...

BTS's Free Gwanghwamun Concert Draws Over 100,000 in Queue Immediately After Ticket Sales Open

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  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 ...

[BTS Gwanghwamun D-33] "Silver Voice"... Profile Series ② Jin, the Eldest Member of BTS

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  Original article:  Aju News ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ As BTS prepares for its comeback in March, the world is once again abuzz with anticipation. News of the comeback, delivered through "Arirang," along with plans for a world tour, signals a massive phenomenon capable of generating immediate responses not only in the music industry but also across tourism and regional economies. BTS is both a global economic force and a symbolic name that elevates South Korea's national image. Ahead of this comeback, this publication presents the "BTS Profile Series," examining each member in turn and documenting the seven faces that make up BTS. <Editor's Note> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Jin (real name: Kim Seokjin), the eldest member of BTS, is a name that embodies both the longest endurance and the firmest emotional steadiness within the team. As a sub-vocalist, he supports the group's sound, and offstage, he has consistently played a role i...

[BTS Gwanghwamun D-35] "A Cultural Icon Beyond K-pop"... Profile series ① Leader RM of BTS

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  Original article:  Aju News ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━─ With the comeback of the group BTS scheduled for March, the world is once again buzzing with with excitement. News of their return, delivered through "Arirang," along with plans of a world tour, signals a massive phenomenon that is expected to spark immediate reactions not only in the music industry but also across tourism and regional economies. BTS is a presence that influences the global economy and, at the same time, a symbolic name that elevates South Korea's national image. Ahead of this comeback, our publication presents the "BTS Profile Series," which takes an in-depth look at each member in turn, documenting the seven faces that make up BTS. <Editor's note> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The leader of BTS, RM (real name Kim Namjoon), is both the group's starting point and its compass. As the main rapper and the core of t...

Seoul City to Sponsor BTS Comeback Concerts, Approves Us of Its Name and Notifies HYBE

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  For riginal article:  YNA ⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋ "Public Benefit Through Cultural Events and Tourism Promotion... Boosting the Economy Through a K-pop Hallyu Festival" Special Inspection of 127 Elevators Around Gwanghwamun to Ensure Crowd Safety and Welcome Global Fans ⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋ The Seoul Metropolitan Government will officially sponsor BTS's comeback concert, scheduled to be held at Gwanghwamun Square on March 21 next month. In preparation, the city is conducting special inspections of elevators at major public facilities in the area and cracking down on price gouging at tourist site.  In a phone interview with Yonhap News on the 10th, a Seoul City official said, "HYBE requested permission to use the designation 'Sponsored by Seoul City' for BTS's comeback project. A free a review, we decided to approve the request and notified HYBE of the decision on the 29th of last month.  Following an Internal review, the city concluded ...

Police: "Up to 260,000 Expected at BTS Gwanghwamun Concert... Special Forced to Be Deployed in Advance"

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  Original article:  Yonhap News ⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋ Authorities will deploy special forces and strengthen counterterrorism measures in anticipation of up to 260,000 people gathering for BTS's comeback concert at Gwanghwamun Square on March 21 next month.  At a regular press briefing on the 9th, Park Jung-bo, Commissioner of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, stated, "We have appointed the Deputy Commissioner for Public Safety as the head of a task force, and all departments are preparing to ensure the event proceeds safety." Police estimate that around 230,000 people will gather from the main stage at the northern entrance of Gwanghwamun Square—across from the Woldae platform—to Deoksugung's Daehanmun Gate, and up to 260,000 as far as Sungnyemun Gate.  Commissioner Park explained, "We are not certain whether it will reach that number, but we are preparing under the assumption that the maximum possible crowd will gather." Based in crowd density...

BTS to Announce "Return of the King" at Gwanghwamun on March 21... Collaboration with Traditional "Arirang" Orchestra Confirmed

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  Global sensation BTS will declare spectacular full-group comeback this March at Gwanghwamun Square in Seoul, the heart of Korean history. This performance marks their official return approximately three years and nine months after all members completed their mandatory military service, drawing the attention of ARMYs worldwide to Seoul. ■ Walking the "King's Path" atop Woljeongyo Platform... A Historic Encounter Between Traditional Music and K-pop According to the music industry and the Seoul Metropolitan Government on the 8th, BTS will hold their fifth studio album release commemorative concert, "BTS 2026 Comeback Show @ Seoul," at 8 p.m. on March 21 at Gwanghwamun Square. The central concept of the event is the fusion of K-Heritage and K-pop.  One of the most striking aspects of the show is its large-scale lineup. All seven BTS members will perform alongside 50 professional dancers and the 13-member of Arirang Traditional Orchestra. As the title track "A...