I can't believe people are upset for the delay. Being in the crowd yesterday, I strongly believe that delaying the show had actually saved our lives. Cause if they'd have started it while we were still out there like this, EVERYONE would have pushed to hurry inside and... yeah
Busan city pulled back on the plan on deploying civil servants to manage safety around the venue to manage crowd & traffic,also hybe requested for more people to be deployed but @BusanCityGovt rejected the request&was bashing bts/bh for requesting it, busan govt is the trash here
Las Vegas: Special transit campaigns, monorail and bus coordination for BTS visitors.
Tampa: Street closures and traffic-management tied to BTS events.
Stanford: Extended Caltrain service and road closures for BTS concerts.
Mexico: Subway extension hours.
And here comes Busan.
"The problem isn't Busan" I'm gonna stop u right there, cuz in México City there were THOUSANDS of armys outside the stadium and more than 50k inside and we didn't have this problem, u know why? CUZ ITS THE CITY'S JOB TO PROTECT AND ORGANIZE THESE EVENTS
Ok. Not a company stan, but if the company’s poor planning were the issue, wouldn’t they have poor planning all around?
No major issues anywhere else. Hell, they had another full stadium’s worth of ppl OUTSIDE the stadium in MX & there weren’t any issues.
Busan’s the problem.
Please RT to help find the owner!
I found an Army Bomb at a bus stop. A credit card was also inside, so I am taking it to the police station.
#ArmyBomb#BTS#LostAndFound
This army is probably heartbroken as fuck, since this is like 4 different items from arirang merch worth hundreds of USD... on top of losing army bomb. Let's please put good effort in finding them
Its safe to assume that management got chewed out yesterday.
At the subway today, there are so many interpretators, cops, and staff. Signs everywhere.
Its already better.
They definitely got chewed out!!
I'll be honest, as someone who has professionally helped organise large-scale events, the issues being reported from Day 1 of Arirang in Busan (12 June 2026) don't point to failures by BTS or BigHit/HYBE. Instead, they appear to be failures in venue operations, crowd management, and local event execution.
Based on what we've seen from attendees, the primary failures appear to sit with:
• Government representatives
• Venue management
• Local event organisers
• Security contractors
Reports from the timeline include:
• Significant delays getting attendees into the venue
• Poor crowd management and queue control
• Gift distribution that appears to have been poorly planned
• Technical issues with NOL FacePass verification
• Reports of inadequate medical staffing, equipment, and emergency response resources
• Poorly managed entry points
• Reports of unprofessional conduct from some security staff towards attendees
• Public transport operating on normal schedules despite the event running significantly late
• Traffic police directing attendees away from the venue while tens of thousands of people were simultaneously attempting to access buses, trains, taxis, and rideshares
• Insufficient transport and crowd-dispersal planning for the volume of people leaving the stadium at once
Having attended Yet To Come in 2022, I still remember how difficult it was to leave the venue. At one point, the crowd density became high enough that I was genuinely concerned about crowd crush. That's why transport planning and crowd dispersal aren't minor operational details - they're critical safety measures.
BigHit/HYBE are renting the venue and producing the show, but venue operations, crowd control, security staffing, emergency services, transport coordination, and infrastructure are often managed locally through the venue, local organisers, contractors, and government agencies.
What stands out to me is that if this level of operational dysfunction were primarily a BigHit/HYBE issue, we'd expect to see similar problems at BTS concerts everywhere. Instead, we continue to see recurring concerns associated with this specific venue and its management.
Unfortunately, BigHit/HYBE are the most visible organisation attached to the event, so they're often the first to receive criticism when something goes wrong. However, based on the issues being reported, many of these failures fall within the responsibilities of venue management, local event organisers, security providers, transport coordinators, and government agencies.
As someone who has worked on large-scale events, I think it's important that accountability is directed at the parties actually responsible for each aspect of event delivery. Not every operational failure at a BTS concert is automatically a BigHit/HYBE failure, particularly when the same concerns continue to emerge around the same venue and local management structures.
For new armys, Paldogangsan is a complex track that emphasises bts’ roots and the regional dialects of the members! Paldogangsan got huge amounts of praise nationally for its lyrics as regional dialects were rarely highlighted in kpop/k-hiphop scenes
the city can absolutely be held accountable btw. they halved the staff that were supposed to do safety management & traffic control just days before. if their own officials don't wanna be deployed for concerts then they gotta stop renting out the stadium for "commercial events"🤷♀️
It's 2 AM in Busan and Armys are still stranded at Geojae St. Buses are shut off bc it's the weekend and the show ended so late.
There are no Ubers and hundreds of lost confused foreigners out.
Busan, get your shit together. Security were even cursing at the guests today.
A little update today.
I’ve had countless people messaging me about the girls my inlaws took in. What started as 15 girls quickly became 20 because at around 4am they had to go and collect another five girls who were stranded on Gwangalli Beach after missing the bus. On top of that, one girl’s hotel cancelled her booking and then had the audacity to try and charge her an outrageous amount for a replacement room.
Honestly, it’s an absolute disgrace.
No one should have been left in that situation in the first place. Thankfully, there are still genuinely kind hearted people out there. Some of the girls will be dropped off at the venue today, while others will be taken to the airport. I’ve also heard that more residents in the Haeundae area have stepped up and opened their homes to stranded people who had nowhere else to go.
The fact that ordinary people are having to clean up this mess says everything.