{"id":306728,"date":"2026-02-28T16:35:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T16:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/306728\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T16:35:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T16:35:14","slug":"bts-gwanghwamun-concert-to-run-for-around-1-hour-over-safety-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/306728\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS&#8217; Gwanghwamun concert to run for around 1 hour over safety concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/06b3ecee-b62f-44d4-a1d3-a5d1693a12c3.jpg\" style=\"height: auto; aspect-ratio: 1439 \/ 959; width: 100%\" alt=\"BTS \/ Courtesy of Korea Heritage Service\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>BTS \/ Courtesy of Korea Heritage Service<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">A free concert by K-pop group BTS at Seoul&#8217;s Gwanghwamun Square scheduled for next month will run for around an hour due to safety and operational considerations, its organizer said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">&#8220;The performance time has been set at an appropriate duration to ensure safe and smooth operations,&#8221; Hybe said in a release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">&#8220;The Gwanghwamun concert is being held in a unique setting at a public outdoor venue rather than a conventional concert hall,&#8221; the company said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">&#8220;Accordingly, we have set the performance time after taking various factors into consideration, including stage management, audience safety and on-site control,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The upcoming concert will include new songs from the boy band&#8217;s upcoming fifth full-length album, &#8220;Arirang,&#8221; along with other popular songs, according to entertainment sources.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The 13,000 tickets available for the concert were reserved shortly after going on sale Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Police currently estimate that up to 260,000 people may visit the area around the venue, with the organizer reviewing measures to install large screens near City Hall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BTS \/ Courtesy of Korea Heritage Service A free concert by K-pop group BTS at Seoul&#8217;s Gwanghwamun Square&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-306728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306728","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=306728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}