13 years ago today, BTS made their debut with โ2 cool 4 skoolโ ๐ฅโจ
the k-pop superstars went on to becoming the best-selling korean act in U.S. history and the first all-korean act to reach no. 1 on the hot 100 and no. 1 on the billboard 200. ๐
billboard hot 100 no. 1 singles:
๐ถ โdynamiteโ (2020)
๐ถ โsavage love (laxed - siren beat)โ (jason derulo / jawsh 685 ft. BTS remix, 2020)
๐ถ โlife goes onโ (2020)
๐ถ โbutterโ (2021)
๐ถ โpermission to danceโ (2021)
๐ถ โmy universeโ (coldplay & BTS, 2021)
๐ถ โswimโ (2026)
billboard 200 no. 1 albums:
๐ฟ โlove yourself: tearโ (2018)
๐ฟ โlove yourself: answerโ (2018)
๐ฟ โmap of the soul: personaโ (2019)
๐ฟ โmap of the soul: 7โ (2020)
๐ฟ โbeโ (2020)
๐ฟ 'proofโ (2022)
๐ฟ โARIRANGโ (2026)
what's your favorite BTS era? ๐๐
DR Congo national football team ๐จ๐ฉ arrive in Houston for the World Cup in leopard ๐ skin fashion๐ฅ๐ฅโฆ.. This will be their first appearance at the tournament since 1974 when the came as Zaire
The never ending saga of taking a shower ๐
๐ฃ Wahh, how am I going to wash up?
๐ฐ I really donโt want to wash up either
๐ฃ This is wrapped too. How am I going to unravel it? (his hair)
๐ฐ I have a solution. When you go to your roomโฆ
๐ฃ You sit on the sofa? Then itโs over.
๐ฐ No, not the sofa.
๐ฃ You have to go straight to the bathroom. You go directly to the bathroom with all your clothes on..
๐ฐ and then you walk back out? ๐
๐ฃ If you do that itโs over, you wonโt wash for another 2 hours
๐ฐ So the funny thing is, you have a queen sized bed
๐ฃ Oh yeah I heard thereโs two beds here
๐ฐ yeah, and then you have a smaller bed, a single. So the single is a place I can lay down on without being clean
๐ฃ mmmmm. You shouldnโt tell me thatโฆ becauseโฆ. No no, I canโt do that. I need to go straight to the bathroom without even looking to the side.
I need to block my view like this๐ซธ๐๐ซท
๐ฐ No, you need to look at your periphery
๐ฃ huh?
๐ฐYou need to look at your periphery or you might fall down
๐ฃ I can see like this ๐ซธ๐๐ซท
๐ฃ So I go straight to the bathroom and I get buck naked.
๐ฐ buck naked? ๐
๐ฃ Obviously, since youโre washing up. So you take off all your clothes, you put it away later, and you immediately get water on you and thatโs the start. You need to get wet. The most important thing is getting your hair wet.
๐ฐYou donโt remove your eye makeup first?
๐ฃ After I get wet, I wash my eyes. If I remove my eye makeup first without getting wet Iโll go back out to sit down again ๐
๐ฐ๐ฃ (proceeds to show how they keep postponing taking a shower because theyโre distracted by their phones and how they reprimand themselves)
๐ฐ The cell phone is scary
๐ฃ This is why you have to get yourself wet right away, or you have to throw your phone outside the room while you wash up. The cell phone is a problem!
"COME OVER" has now reached 80 #1's on iTunes Worldwide so far! ๐๐ฅ
#1 Argentina
#1 Armenia
#1 Australia
#1 Austria
#1 Azerbaijan
#1 Bahrain
#1 Belarus
#1 Belgium
#1 Bolivia
#1 Brazil
#1 Bulgaria
#1 Cambodia
#1 Canada
#1 Chile
#1 Colombia
#1 Costa Rica
#1 Czech Republic
#1 Denmark
#1 Dominican Republic
#1 Ecuador
#1 Egypt
#1 El Salvador
#1 Estonia
#1 Finland
#1 France
#1 Germany
#1 Greece
#1 Guatemala
#1 Honduras
#1 Hong Kong
#1 Hungary
#1 India
#1 Indonesia
#1 I*P
#1 Ireland
#1 Italy
#1 Japan
#1 Jordan
#1 Kazakhstan
#1 Kyrgyzstan
#1 Latvia
#1 Lithuania
#1 Malaysia
#1 Malta
#1 Mauritius
#1 Mexico
#1 Moldova
#1 Netherlands
#1 New Zealand
#1 Nicaragua
#1 Norway
#1 Panama
#1 Paraguay
#1 Peru
#1 Philippines
#1 Poland
#1 Portugal
#1 Romania
#1 Russia
#1 Saudi Arabia
#1 Singapore
#1 Slovakia
#1 Slovenia
#1 South Africa
#1 Spain
#1 Sri Lanka
#1 Swaziland
#1 Sweden
#1 Switzerland
#1 Taiwan
#1 Tajikistan
#1 Thailand
#1 Uganda
#1 Ukraine
#1 UAE
#1 UK
#1 USA
#1 Uzbekistan
#1 Venezuela
#1 Vietnam
CONGRATULATIONS BTS
CONGRATULATIONS PROD SUGA
#BTS_ComeOver
Another Paldogangsan fun fact:
Weโve all heard about how JK joined bighit because of Namjoon but did you know Taehyung says it was the same for him?
Seeing rapline perform Paldogangsan was what got him!
๐ฅ Thank you for coming today. The circumstances at the venue weren't very good and we're sorry about that.
๐ฐ We're sorry.
๐ฅ I actually didn't hear what went wrong. I heard they're analyzing it and I think they did do that. And we asked them to prevent this from happening tomorrow. So I hope tomorrow will go well? I'm sad about today. We prepared the gifts with good intentions, but passing them out ended up being a hurdle a bit, a lot?
๐ฐ A lot.
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:
โข Government representatives
โข Venue management
โข Local event organisers
โข Security contractors
Reports from the timeline include:
โข Significant delays getting attendees into the venue
โข Poor crowd management and queue control
โข Gift distribution that appears to have been poorly planned
โข Technical issues with NOL FacePass verification
โข Reports of inadequate medical staffing, equipment, and emergency response resources
โข Poorly managed entry points
โข Reports of unprofessional conduct from some security staff towards attendees
โข Public transport operating on normal schedules despite the event running significantly late
โข Traffic police directing attendees away from the venue while tens of thousands of people were simultaneously attempting to access buses, trains, taxis, and rideshares
โข 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.