BTS Is Back! BTS Returns With Free Seoul Concert At Gwanghwamun Square Massive Amount Of Fans Expected
The free concert of BTS is going to be on March 21, at the Gwanghwamun Square and there will be many people from not just in Seoul, but all over the world coming to see the concert. The best estimate for the total amount of people that will attend will be around 260,000, which may make it one of the biggest concerts ever held in Seoul. The concert will only last for one hour, and that is according to the BTS managers at HYBE, who have put together a lot of detailed plans and procedures on how to access the concert. The absence of ticketing for entry to the concert and having it take place in a publicly accessible area like the public square vs being located inside an arena will create added concern regarding concert access control. As such, the City of Seoul and the.
Police Department developed a concert plan that included; stage location, egress and ingress routes, crowd control processes and means of protecting all concert attendees and performers. As demand for tickets to the BTS concert skyrocketed immediately upon opening reservation, 1300 + tickets were booked in the first minute or two, and then all +15000 tickets were gone less than 15-minutes after that report. When ticket reservations started there were over 100,000 simultaneous users on one seller's website, causing severe lag. Fans were found in many PC cafés or "internet" cafés attempting to gain fast enough access to the internet to reserve as many individual tickets as possible, and to improve their chances, fans would cooperate by operating multiple devices and all share their experiences of being disconnected from the booking website on message boards.
To assist with managing the overwhelming amount of people who plan to show up to the concert in Seoul, the city is going to utilize a lot of different methods to reduce the crowd and create a “virtual stadium” on the square. To regulate movement, there will be twenty-nine secured entrances throughout the square. The concert will also be streamed live on multiple large televisions throughout the square in order to reduce the number of fans who come to the site, and many businesses in the area plan to close on that day to assist in providing a safe environment for those attending the concert.
Authorities are actively enforcing laws against ticket resellers, targeting illegal prices anywhere from 100,000 won to 1.2 million won with the intent to remove them. New rules passed by the South Korean government will subject individuals and companies to fines of up to 50 times their original cost for violating ticket resale limitations.
Aside from music, this event emphasizes what economists call “BTS-nomics” or the economic effects that BTS has on the tourism and hospitality industries. After serving almost four years in the military, RM, Jin, Suga, Jimin, V, Jung Kook, and j-hope will come together again for this concert in Seoul as a cultural and historic event.
