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BTS are preparing for their long-awaited return, announcing both an upcoming livestream performance and a new documentary that will air on Netflix in partnership with Hybe.
The event, titled “BTS the Comeback Live | Arirang,” will be broadcast from Gwanghwamun in Seoul on March 21 at 1 p.m. (CET) in celebration of their upcoming album “Arirang,” which will be released on March 20. The global performance follows “BTS: The Return,” a Bao Nguyen-directed documentary exploring the making of the band’s new LP, premiering March 27 on Netflix.
A press release calls the documentary a “portrait of resilience, brotherhood and reinvention” in which members RM, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, V, Jimin and Jung Kook reunite in Los Angeles to create “new music that reflects who they are now – culminating in a landmark album of its time.” The film also shows the group struggling with “how to start over, how to honor the past without being tied to it, and how to move forward together.”
“Arirang” will be the group’s first studio album since 2020’s “Map of the Soul: 7” and is named after a traditional Korean folk song known both in Korea and worldwide. The supergroup will also embark on an extensive tour in April that will run until March 2027 in support of their upcoming LP. The world tour begins April 9 in Goyang, South Korea, and the band will spend multiple nights in each city on the tour, including Tokyo, Mexico City, Las Vegas, Busan, London, Paris, Chicago, Toronto, Sydney, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Manila and Munich.
