{"id":156734,"date":"2026-01-15T08:49:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T16:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=156734"},"modified":"2026-01-15T08:49:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T16:49:48","slug":"bts-announces-their-new-album-name-arirang-find-out-its-symbolic-meaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/bts-announces-their-new-album-name-arirang-find-out-its-symbolic-meaning\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS announces their new album name, &#8216;ARIRANG.&#8217; Find out its symbolic meaning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few moments ago, <strong>BTS<\/strong> surprised fans by announcing their long-awaited new album name, &#8216;<strong>ARIRANG.<\/strong>&#8216; Find out its symbolic meaning that maks reference to his roots.<\/p>\n<p>On January 15th, BigHit Music shared a <strong>Weverse<\/strong> report, titled <strong>&#8220;BTS The 5th Album &#8216;ARIRANG&#8217; Pre-Order&#8221;<\/strong> which confirmed the boy group new era with this meaningful name beside revealing that the pre-order starts on Friday, January 16.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bts_bighit\/status\/2011815657881629162\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"ko\" dir=\"ltr\">[\uacf5\uc9c0] BTS (\ubc29\ud0c4\uc18c\ub144\ub2e8) \uc815\uaddc 5\uc9d1 &#39;ARIRANG&#39; \uc608\uc57d \uad6c\ub9e4 \uc548\ub0b4 (+ENG\/JPN\/CHN\/ESP)<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd17 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CST1HCVKVC\">https:\/\/t.co\/CST1HCVKVC<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BTS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#BTS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%EB%B0%A9%ED%83%84%EC%86%8C%EB%85%84%EB%8B%A8?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#\ubc29\ud0c4\uc18c\ub144\ub2e8<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BTS_ARIRANG?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#BTS_ARIRANG<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4RMRBBXshG\">pic.twitter.com\/4RMRBBXshG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BTS_official (@bts_bighit) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bts_bighit\/status\/2011815657881629162?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 15, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Arirang&#8217; is the name of the most famous folk song in Korea, which symbolizes the nation&#8217;s spirit, identity, and emotions of love, loss, and suffering. This word possible meaning is <em><strong>&#8220;my beloved one&#8221;<\/strong><\/em> that come from ari (beautiful) and rang (beloved).<\/p>\n<p>This song is a <strong>cultural treasure<\/strong>, and BTS has demonstrated their love for it by making their own version of it, which has made it recently rumored to become the boy group&#8217;s 5th album due to symbolic hints from the members.<\/p>\n<p>Now, fans have reacted to this announcement with <strong>comments<\/strong> like, <em>&#8220;ARIRANG makes so much sense for BTS?!!!!!&#8221; &#8220;OMG ARIRANG \ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d,&#8221; &#8220;LET&#8217;S GOOOOOOO!&#8221; &#8220;Having flashbacks with ARIRANG,&#8221; &#8220;I know that&#8217;s right!&#8221; &#8220;ARIRANG?! \ud83e\udd7a We are going back to our roots,&#8221; &#8220;ARIRANG is such a beautiful title &#8211; this has actually just made me tear up!\ud83d\ude2d\ud83e\udd70\ud83d\udc9c.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/taexdec\/status\/2011818000345870697\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">ARIRANG??? NOW I CAN\u2019T STOP SINGING THIS WTH\ud83d\ude2d<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SfN04006YV\">pic.twitter.com\/SfN04006YV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; sneha\u2077 \u196b\u1b61. | ARIRANG \u2299\u229d\u229c (@taexdec) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/taexdec\/status\/2011818000345870697?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 15, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few moments ago, BTS surprised fans by announcing their long-awaited new album name, &#8216;ARIRANG.&#8216; Find out its symbolic meaning that maks reference to his roots. On January 15th, BigHit Music shared a Weverse report, titled &#8220;BTS The 5th Album &#8216;ARIRANG&#8217; Pre-Order&#8221; which confirmed the boy group new era with this meaningful name beside revealing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2817,"featured_media":156740,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[49],"class_list":{"0":"post-156734","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kpop","8":"category-news","9":"tag-bts"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}