On Saturday, the heart of Seoul turned into a sea of purple.<\/p>\n
It was splashed across landmarks, towering billboards, giant screens on high-rises, posters, masks and t-shirts. It was in the display of drone lights on the Han River.<\/p>\n
The reason for it was impossible to miss. <\/p>\n
“Welcome back BTS,” a banner on a 7-Eleven declared, surrounded by the K-pop act’s signature colour. The world’s biggest band was returning to the stage – after a break of more than three years because of mandatory military service.<\/p>\n
“BTS is everything for us,” says Veronica, who along with her friend Amanda flew in from the US to catch Saturday’s show.<\/p>\n
The concert was yet to begin. Members RM, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, V and Jung Kook had not made an appearance, but already, BTS was everywhere.<\/p>\n
The megastars of pop were back.<\/p>\n
And their “Army”, as their legions of fans call themselves, was ready – happy, singing, screaming, light-sticks in hand. These props can be seen at every K-pop concert but the big bands have their own.<\/p>\n
Amanda and Veronica had them too. They wore wide grins and matching purple hanbok, the traditional Korean dress.<\/p>\n
The band’s break is what made them seek out other members of the Army. “That’s how we met,” Amanda says.<\/p>\n
But it had been a difficult three years, they added, spent yearning for the band to come back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Saturday, the heart of Seoul turned into a sea of purple. It was splashed across landmarks, towering…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,409],"class_list":["post-351605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}