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Fans Elated Despite Big-City Exhaustion Just Hours Ahead of BTS' Gwanghwamun Show

About 8,000 fans gathered early near Gwanghwamun Square with extensive safety measures and 6,700 police officers deployed for the free BTS comeback concert.

Summary by The Korea Times
Hours before BTS is set to take the stage at Gwanghwamun Square, central Seoul, it had already begun to feel less like a city center and more like...

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[Photo] Fans gathering at Gwanghwamun Square as BTS is coming. OSEN = Reporter Park Jun-hyung. The group BTS will hold a free comeback concert, "BTS Comeback Live: Arirang," at Gwanghwamun Square in Seoul on the 21st. At the concert on this day, BTS...

Two hours before the BTS Comeback Live: Arirang concert began, an estimated 30,000 people gathered in Gwanghwamun Square to wait to enter the stage area.

[Digital Daily Reporter Jo Eun-byeol] On the evening of the 21st at 8 PM, the area around Gwanghwamun Square in Seoul, where BTS's comeback concert was to be held, was bustling with purple ARMYs (BTS's official fandom) from early morning. Long lines of ARMYs stretched at Exits 1 and 8 of Gwanghwamun Station on Subway Line 5, which lead to the ground level, waiting to enter the concert venue. Wearing colorful purple outfits that symbolize BTS as…

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Entertainment Magazine broke the news in on Friday, March 20, 2026.
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