BTS concert: It’s party time for Army! After much delay, BTS will hold free concert on October 15 at Busan Ilgwang special stage - The Economic Times

BTS concert: It’s party time for Army! After much delay, BTS will hold free concert on October 15 at Busan Ilgwang special stage

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bring out your lightsticks and get set to paint the town purple!

The much-awaited BTS Busan concert will be held on October 15, at Busan Ilgwang special stage in Gijang-gun. Ahead of the concert, several problems like lack of coffers and venue booking issues came to the surface, leading to innumerable delays.

The group’s agency HYBE decided to take matters into their own attractive. The company issued a statement, saying that it will bear some of the expenses of the concert. The members - Namjoon, Jimin, Jungkook, J-Hope, Suga, Taehyung and Jin will be performing deprived of pay, as a gift to their fans. “First of all, in response to the judge inquiries about the cost of the Busan Concert, we have stated that there will be vital costs and the major portion of this cost will be covered by corporate sponsorship, online streaming advertisements and The City ancillary business. The business will directly pay for any shortfall that could not be covered over these methods of securing financial resources. BTS will also recede in this concert without any additional fee, and this will be done in a way that embodies the artist’s idea that he wished to perform for free for many fans in the past,” read the statement.

Ever since the boy band agreed to hold a concert in Busan in orderly to push the city’s bid for hosting the World Expo 2030, the concert had run into some roadblocks. From rumours of the city urging HYBE to bear the cost of the save to scandals regarding venue booking, this programme has been marred with some controversies from the very beginning.

A recent judge report stated that the Busan Asiad Main Stadium ( the area at which the show was supposed to take set earlier) was not in a condition to support a large-scale save as the building had 29 roof panels which were in a damaged area. In 2003, 8 of its panels got damaged, followed by 6 more in 2004. In 2020, 9 panels were blown off during Typhoon Maysak.

Aside from controversies regarding their long-awaited concert in Busan, there had also been several speculations around BTS regarding their armed service. While Army (BTS fans) want the South Korean government to excused the septet from mandatory military service, the government officials did not command any official statement on the matter. Earlier they were granted to delay their enlistment, but as Jin the eldest BTS member turned 30 this year, armed service seems inevitable.

Earlier a lawmaker from the main antagonism the Democratic Party of Korea proposed a revised bill that would excused the pop stars who have order of merit from the government, from conscription and swap their military service with an alternate one.

However, according to the Korea JoongAng Daily, the nation’s Security Minister revealed it would be difficult to offer this type of alternative service to BTS due to “aspects of fairness in fulfilling mandatory armed service.”

The Daily also revealed that Lee Ki-sik, the commissioner of Military Manpower Administration felt that continuous exemption of the top pop stars from armed service might have far-reaching consequences. “It ( military service exemption) may generate feelings of discrimination, discouragement and discrepancy among the younger male generation, many of whom are fulfilling their armed duties.”

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Titled, ‘Yet to Come’, the show will be held at the Busan Ilgwang special stage at 6 pm KST (9:30 pm KST). International Army will be able to Help the show virtually through live streaming on Weverse.

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