{"id":246025,"date":"2026-01-22T11:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T11:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/246025\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T11:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T11:25:08","slug":"seoul-city-govt-conditionally-allows-bts-comeback-show-in-gwanghwamun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/246025\/","title":{"rendered":"Seoul city gov&#8217;t conditionally allows BTS comeback show in Gwanghwamun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/9baf3818-9dba-44de-bbe2-1949cd0b932b.jpg\" style=\"height: auto; aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1270; width: 100%\" alt=\"Tourists take a photo of a staircase promoting BTS' comeback in March at the Sejong Center for the Performing Arts in Seoul, Thursday. Yonhap\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tourists take a photo of a staircase promoting BTS&#8217; comeback in March at the Sejong Center for the Performing Arts in Seoul, Thursday. Yonhap<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\"> The Seoul metropolitan government on Thursday approved K-pop megastar BTS&#8217;s request to hold a comeback show in the central Gwanghwamun Square on the condition it meets safety standards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The decision was reached at a meeting of a relevant advisory panel in response to a request from Hybe, the K-pop company behind BTS, and the group&#8217;s label BigHit Music to allow the concert \u2014 &#8220;BTS 2026 Comeback Show @ Seoul&#8221; \u2014 to be held in Gwanghwamun in March, the city government said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The approval is conditional on safety conditions being met, including preventing overlaps in the exit times of performers and audience members and minimizing traffic disruptions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">In addition, the city government plans to conduct thorough on-site inspections in advance against inflated hotel prices and other unfair business practices in neighborhoods surrounding Gwanghwamun Square.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">BTS will release its fifth full-length album &#8220;Arirang&#8221; on March 20, its first new album in three years and nine months since the anthology album &#8220;Proof&#8221; in June 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Hybe has applied to host a concert for about 18,000 people at Gwanghwamun Square on March 21, and another event for roughly 30,000 at Seoul Plaza in front of City Hall, according to city officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">If approved, it would be the first solo concert by a single K-pop act at Gwanghwamun Square.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The city government said it plans to organize various programs marking BTS&#8217; comeback on the day of the performance to be enjoyed by the group&#8217;s fans and foreign tourists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tourists take a photo of a staircase promoting BTS&#8217; comeback in March at the Sejong Center for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-246025","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}