{"id":157301,"date":"2026-01-22T11:00:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T19:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=157301"},"modified":"2026-01-22T11:46:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T19:46:49","slug":"seoul-city-approves-bts-comeback-show-at-gwanghwamun-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/seoul-city-approves-bts-comeback-show-at-gwanghwamun-square\/","title":{"rendered":"Seoul City approves BTS comeback show at Gwanghwamun Square"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Seoul City<\/strong> officially approved<strong> BTS\u2019<\/strong> request to hold a large-scale comeback concert at<strong> Gwanghwamun Square<\/strong> on Thursday, January 22, 2026. The Seoul Metropolitan Government confirmed that its advisory panel decided after reviewing a proposal submitted by BTS\u2019 companies, HYBE and BigHit Music. The approval was granted on the condition that all safety and public order requirements are met for the show. The approval allows preparations to move forward for the event titled \u201cBTS 2026 Comeback Show @ Seoul,\u201d which is planned for March 21, 2026, coinciding with the boy group\u2019s album release.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AboutMusicYT\/status\/2014261091451142175?s=20\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BTS is confirmed to hold their comeback concert at Gwanghwamun Square in Seoul on March 21st. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MeD0Z92SsE\">pic.twitter.com\/MeD0Z92SsE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; About Music (@AboutMusicYT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AboutMusicYT\/status\/2014261091451142175?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 22, 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>The concert will mark BTS\u2019 first performance as a full seven-member group since their hiatus in 2022, a period during which the members focused on solo projects and completed their mandatory military services. City authorities outlined several safety conditions, including managing crowd flow, preventing overlaps between performer and audience exit times, and reducing traffic disruptions in the area. <strong>If the process is finalized, the Gwanghwamun performance would become the first concert by a KPop act to ever be held at the historic square<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-157302\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/BTS-live.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/BTS-live.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/BTS-live-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/BTS-live-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/BTS-live-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/BTS-live-1100x733.jpeg 1100w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/BTS-live-680x453.jpeg 680w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/BTS-live-200x133.jpeg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>BTS is scheduled to release their fifth full-length album titled \u201c<strong>Arirang<\/strong>\u201d on March 20, 2026. This will be their first new album in three years and nine months, following the anthology album \u201cProof\u201d released in June 2022. To accompany the release of \u201cArirang,\u201d the group will embark on a tour, which shares the same name, starting on April 9, 11, and 12, 2026. They are expected to perform 79 concerts across Asia, North America, South America, Europe, and Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seoul City officially approved BTS\u2019 request to hold a large-scale comeback concert at Gwanghwamun Square on Thursday, January 22, 2026. The Seoul Metropolitan Government confirmed that its advisory panel decided after reviewing a proposal submitted by BTS\u2019 companies, HYBE and BigHit Music. The approval was granted on the condition that all safety and public order [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":157303,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1425,7],"tags":[49],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-157301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kpop","8":"category-concert","9":"category-news","10":"tag-bts"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157301","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\/3104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157301"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=157301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}