BUSAN, Jun. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of BTS fans caused a commotion on Saturday after the production company in charge of the South Korean boy band’s first fan meeting concert in Busan denied entry to a number of fans. The fan meeting took place at Busan’s Asiad Auxiliary Stadium, where more than 100 [...]
BUSAN, Jun. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Throwing its first-ever concert in the second-biggest South Korean city of Busan on Saturday, K-pop band BTS dazzled some 25,000 fans in this bustling port city. The area around Busan Asiad Auxiliary Stadium, close to the southeastern coastline, was buzzing with BTS fans, famously known as “ARMY,” from early [...]
BUSAN, Jun. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The second-largest South Korean city of Busan is bustling with excitement and preparations Friday as tens of thousands of fans are set to visit the city to see K-pop world stars BTS over the weekend. The septet will arrive in Busan on Saturday to throw the Busan leg of [...]
PARIS, Jun. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Tens of thousands of fans traveled from all over Europe to Saint Denis, just north of Paris, where the K-pop boy band BTS performed for the second night on Saturday. Following the band’s concerts at Wembley Stadium last weekend, the septet came to rock France on Friday and Saturday, [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Three BTS songs will hit the playlist of the American space agency’s next journey to the moon as the agency is planning to make another lunar landing by 2024, the agency’s SNS feeds have shown. In a Twitter feed Tuesday, the Johnson Space Center of the National Aeronautics and [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Netmarble Games, a South Korean mobile game developer and publisher, said Wednesday that its new, highly anticipated mobile game inspired by K-pop boy band sensation BTS will be launched later this month. “BTS World,” a simulation game built around the idea of grooming BTS members to become global superstars, [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop super stars BTS kicked off the group’s annual online fan festival to celebrate the 6th anniversary of the septet’s debut. A collection of photos, dubbed “Family Portrait,” was released through BTS’ social media accounts on Monday to mark the start of “2019 BTS FESTA.” The boy band hosts [...]
LONDON, Jun. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — A wave of 60,000 spectators turned London’s landmark Wembley Stadium into a sea of ecstasy as K-pop band BTS took the biggest British concert stage with its signature hip hop number “Dionysus” late Saturday. It was a landmark moment of BTS’ high-flying world music career, debuting the band at [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Jin, a member of global stars BTS, joined the UNICEF Korea’s club of top donators, having contributed to the United Nations organization since last year, its Korea office said Friday. Jin’s financial donation to the Korean office of the United Nations Children’s Fund has surpassed 100 million won (US$84,000) [...]
SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The Empire State Building, a landmark of New York City, turned purple to mark the visit of the K-pop group BTS. On Tuesday (local time), BTS visited the Empire State Building before appearing on the live radio show of iHeartMedia, the largest radio station in the U.S. In response, [...]