These were some of the most exciting moments from BTS’s first concert

the south korean band bts He returned this Thursday in a big way to the Olympic Stadium in Seoul to offer his first concert on home soil in two years, offering his fans an evening designed to start letting go of the ballast of a pandemic that is still raging in the Asian country.

The stage in which South Korea took its first big step towards modernity and presented itself to the world at the 1988 Games, today served again as a fort for ARMY -the group’s mostly female followers- and as a throne for their majesties BTS.

To open the first of the concert series Permission to Dance On Stage in Seoul the band chose Ona theme that he released on February 19, 2020 and that should have opened the recitals of his “Map of the Soul” world tour two years ago.

The day of the premiere On The alarm went off in the South Korean city of Daegu due to the first major outbreak of COVID-19 detected until then outside the Chinese city of Wuhan.

The pandemic would end up spreading to South Korea and the rest of the world shortly after and would force BTS to cancel the tour, which was scheduled to start in this very stadium.

released on stage

With the purple color of ARMY flooding the stands of the venue, a cage appeared on stage and freed the seven members of the group who, after two years, regained their “permission to dance” at home in front of the fans who have followed them since their origins.

Unfortunately, with South Korea registering more than 300,000 daily infections, the evening was in turn marked by restrictions (forbidden to sing, shout, dance or get up from the seat) and had only 15,000 attendees.

That is why the band opted, if you will, for a more contained and intimate staging than usual in which the most important thing was to make up for lost time by reuniting the public and artists.

“On” was followed by two classics, “Burning up (Fire)” and “Dope”, before RM, Jimin, Jin, J-Hope, Suga, V, and Jungkook changed the sporty attire for a black suit befitting the trend. melancholy of “Blue & Grey” and the solemnity of “Black swan”.

Then “Blood, sweat & tears” or “Fake love” were played, anthems that helped the group begin to garner global attention and whose choreographies seem etched in the memory of the ARMY.

Next came several cuts that fans had not been able to see live until now, such as “Boy with luv” or “Dynamite”, which were accompanied by a nice eighties orchestration and were among the most energetic and danceable displays of the night.

A revived stadium

That batch also included “Life goes on”, a song that the group composed to encourage their followers during the worst of the pandemic and in whose music video you can see an empty and silent Olympic Stadium in Seoul, today returned to life.

In these, the stage was dyed the color of butter and the fireworks gave way to “Butter”.

The idea was to resume contact, and the seven members of the group took every opportunity they could to thank ARMY for their presence and patience.

The boys seemed to feel so at home that at one point, while “So what” was playing, RM quietly stopped to fasten his untied shoelaces before returning to his teammates, with whom he ended up singing happy birthday to Suga, who turned 29 the day before.

BTS closed the night, how could it be otherwise, with “Permission to dance” and the message that it’s time to enjoy again.

No one except the band and their dance team was able to dance at the Seoul Olympic Stadium today, but the thought remains that the time to do so again is drawing ever closer.

In Ecuador they will be transmitted via streaming three shows that the K-pop group will offer from Seoul this March 12, at 1:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. (Ecuador time), in four movie theaters of its complexes: CityMall, in Guayaquil, and Paseo San Francisco, in Quito/Cumbayá. Tickets were $15. In total, two thousand people in Ecuador will be able to see the ‘live’ of the BTS concert in Cinemarkconfirmed the cinema chain in recent days.(AND)