BTS gave ARMY permission to dance for the first of many times on the band’s world tour supporting ARIRANG, which kicked off Thursday (April 9) with a spectacular performance at Goyang Stadium in South Korea. And in a sweet post on Weverse, Jin summed up his happiness surrounding the night.
“ARMY,” the performer began. “I had so much fun at Arirang Tour’s first concert. I feel comfortable performing as a team and being in the same space with ARMY, so I feel like I’m back home.”
“I hope to see you all together next time!” Jin added in his post. “Then let’s meet on Saturday and jump together! Get home safely and good night everyone.”
The Bangtan Boys will play two more shows at Goyang Stadium before moving on to Tokyo. The trek will last through March of next year and see BTS stopping through cities in North America, Latin America, Europe and Australia as well as Asia.
On top of the tour and release of ARIRANG in March — soon after which the album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 — BTS has been hitting the ground running with promotion for this era. The band has already released three music videos for the album’s “SWIM,” “2.0” and “Hooligan,” and the members have appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Wired‘s auto-complete series and Hot Ones in recent weeks.
On Hot Ones, which dropped Thursday, the guys explained to host Sean Evans how they narrowed down the ARIRANG tracklist. “We all gathered in one place and listened to all the songs, from track No. 1 to track 100,” Jung Kook said. “We’d discuss while we listened. ‘How is this?’ or ’Thoughts on this.’ Almost in a pure fashion.”
V added, “And if I remember correctly, we had a point-scoring system.”
