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ARMY, the "Hidden Organizer" of BTS's Gwanghwamun Concert... A Test of a Cultural Powerhouse

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  Original article:  MTN   The comeback concert of BTS—a flagship intellectual property (IP) of HYBE—to be held around Gwanghwamun Square is drawing global attention. With the world's largest OTT (online video streaming) platform Netflix set to broadcast the event live, The concert is expected not only to highlight HYBE and Netflix but also to reinforce the identity of BTS's fandom, known as ARMY. From 8 p.m. on the 21st, a one-hour performance titled "BTS Comeback Live : Arirang" will take place at Gwanghwamun Square in Seoul. The event is attracting extraordinary attention because it marks the first time all members have reunited after completing their military service, coming together again after three years and nine months. It will also feature the first-ever live performances of new songs, including the title track from their upcoming fifth full-length album "ARIRANG.". As a concert by the group that coined the terms "BTSnomics" (BTS + Economi...

Im Oh-kyung Expresses Regret Over BTS Comeback Being Streamed Exclusively on Netflix, Calls for Support Measures for Domestic OTT Platforms

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  Original article:  Media Today ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ March 4 — Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism Report to the National Assembly's Culture Committee ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Regarding the exclusive live broadcast of BTS's comeback performance in Gwanghwamun, Seoul, on the 21st by global OTT platform Netflix, lawmaker Im Oh-kyung of the Democratic Party of Korea, floor leader of the National Assembly's Culture, Sport and Tourism Committee, urged the Ministry of Culture, Sport and Tourism to consider support measures for domestic OTT serviced when broadcasting K-content.  On March 4, during a plenary session of the Culture Committee, Im questioned Minister Choi Hwi-young, who was present to deliver a work report from the Ministry of Culture, Sport and Tourism.  She stated, "Do you understand what Netflix's exclusive broadcast implies? People around the world must subscribe to Netflix in order to watch BTS's performance. In effect,...

260,000 "ARMY" Fans to Gather, Gwanghwamun Abuzz

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  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...