BTS, the trailblazing global boy group who helped popularize K-pop internationally, made their grand return to Las Vegas Memorial Day weekend.
The seven-member outfit, comprising members RM, Jin, Suga, J-hope, Jimin, V and Jungkook, sold-out four nights at Vegas’ Allegiant Stadium as part of their Arirang World Tour. BTS played their first show in Vegas on Saturday (May 23) and will resume on May 27 and 28. The K-pop group last played the stadium in 2022 during their concert series Permission to Dance on Stage — it was one of the few locations the group performed the show due to COVID regulations at the time.
The Bangtan Boys had just as many fans lining up to see their Sunday night two concert as the group did four years ago. The stadium inside was illuminated by the group’s lightsticks, known as ARMY Bombs, and the screams were near deafening. Lines to get in wrapped throughout the stadium’s parking lot, and there wasn’t an empty seat visible throughout the venue.
Sunday’s concert was a just over two-hour show of elaborate production and cool performances. The tour’s been highly anticipated as Arirang, the group’s album that the tour’s named after, is their first album in years. BTS, much like all young men in South Korea deemed fit to serve, spent the last few years completing their mandatory military service. Seeing BTS onstage, however, you’d never know the members each had to take a minimum 18-month hiatus over the last few years.
