The members of BTS will not be playing the Dream Concert in Seoul this June, instead focusing on the more lucrative Japanese market.
Last week, BTS started unveiling a massive, worldwide tour that is quickly selling out. Unfortunately, that tour is forcing the group to bypass South Korea’s Dream Concert in favor of several Japanese dates. According to comments from BTS’ label, the group simply cannot prioritize hometown South Korean audiences due to pre-existing commitments to important Japanese fans.
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“BTS will be in Japan for their tour when the 2017 Dream Concert begins, so it will be difficult for them to attend,” the group’s agency, Big Hit Entertainment, stated.
Overall, Japan represents a far larger revenue market than South Korea, across all areas. Accordingly, the Bangtan Boys have multiple dates across several Japanese cities, starting May 30th and continuing through early July. In fact, the group will be entirely focused on the Japanese market in June, and unable to fly back to South Korea for even a single-day performance. Sorry Seoul!
The BTS tour of Japan starts May 30th, with three, sold-out days in Osaka. That is followed by concerts in Osaka, Hiroshima, Nagoya, Saitama, and Fukuoka, where ravenous fans await the group.
The Dream Concert starts June 3rd, in the middle of BTS dates in Osaka and Hiroshima. Seoul’s World Cup Stadium will host the affair, with other dedicated Kpop groups performing.
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Part of the problem, according to the group, is that dedicated Japanese fans cannot easily travel to Seoul. That means prioritization of the critical Japanese audience, which continues to surge. “It is difficult for Japanese tourists to attend the Dream Concert,” BTS told South Korean publication, OSEN.
Perhaps South Korean fans have had enough time. Actually, this will be the third time that the group has skipped the hometown Dream Concert, based on previous conflicts. Separately, the group is growing far beyond their core South Korean audience, with dates scheduled in Australia, Brazil, and the US.
Dude is it for them or against them seriously the article is every badly written plus they are in japan because of there fans i know fans in seoul would be feeling bad but still the tour dates were pre-planned if u actually want to learn how to write an unbiased article go and learn from this place
https://www.soompi.com/2017/03/17/btss-agency-says-members-might-not-able-attend-2017-dream-concert/
This is the most neutral, fact-based article Resnikoff has written about BTS in a month (although I can tell he’s fighting the urge not to outright accuse BTS of abandoning their home country). Let’s hope he has stopped smoking whatever anti-BTS, conspiracy-theorist, alterna-news crack he’s been on and get back to decent, fact-driven reporting.
agreed
leave it to paul resnikoff to be not-so-subtle in implying that BTS will not go to Korea to be with Japan. my God Paul…you seriously have a way of writing articles targeting BTS to defame them. I find it funny that you, not a korean, a foreigner based in california(? I forgot) is acting like a know-it-all with regards to BTS. I remember Epik High Tablo’s antifan, the one who acted as know-it-all and reported and defamed Tablo with regards to his being a graduate of Stanford if I remember it well. he really tried so hard to ruin Tablo that even though the foreign university said Tablo really graduated there, that antifan still wrote defaming articles against Tablo. I see that antifan in you Paul. that you will do everything to ruin BTS. psychologically it is said that antifans that are like you are so unsatisfied with their own achievements in life that when they see a very successful one, they will do everything to bring that one down. your life must suck so much that you’re dedicating your life to ruin BTS.
BTS is simply on an already scheduled fans-sold-out World tour and it will be very difficult and tiring for them to go back and forth between Korea and wherever country they will be at the time of Dream Concert. it’s as simple as that. But you really couldn’t help to be such a freaking fame-whore prick Mr. Resnikoff in implying that BTS is prioritizing Japan than their home country Korea. Such a disgrace this Digital Music News site is. This is actually a Blog/Gossip/Hate site.
The articles name and picture make it seem like BTS purposely skipped the south Korean festival for Japanese fans. Please don’t make such a misleading article about BTS.
Hey look, another pointless article about BTS, passed over by industry people who are still scratching their heads over all the pointless BTS articles…
You just want BTS look bad for no reason.
to look bad*
You need to hire a properly educated and ethical journalist Paul. Because that ain’t you. You are continuously throwing shade against BTS and disparaging them even if they’re not doing anything wrong. You’re so clouded by your hate towards BTS that you’re throwing the credibility of your articles.
I agree with you
Do not make BTS look bad. They are very busy!
Honestly, this is the only nice article about BTS that Paul wrote. And don’t you dare mess with us again paul something. BTS never plagiarized big bang’s handcreams. BTS even released some in 2015. And no offence to big bang, handcreams weren’t even made by bigbang. And so what if other groups are more popular than BTS? Is it such a crime? So shut up and start acting like a rational and normal journalist. Shame on you Paul reskoff.
Everytime i see a DMN article I think of an antifan called Paul Reskinoff. It really makes me angry whenever I hear that stupid guy’s name. Cause you Paul, are defaming BTS for no reason. So stop. You should delete your anti articles.
Everyone, this is just an article about BTS playing in Japan for their newer fans. There’s a lot more money there, and BTS is a global group. I’m sorry if you think that BTS should only play Korean shows, just because they’re Kpop? That’s so sad, because it will only hold them back.
We never said that BTS should only play korean shows and stop changing the topic Pal Reskoff. I told you before not to mess with us. I am calling a lawyer if you continue to defame bts and write fake,unreliable articles that are antiBTS. So shut up Pal Reskof
Now I know what goes wrong with you, Mr founder, SERIOUSLY, YOU HAVE A VERY POOR UNDERSTANDING, from the way you reply above. POOR YOU, POOR YOUR SPONSORS AND YOU TEASER (even there are just few).
* you readers
I love the way he tries to make it look like ARMY is trying to “slow them down”. Nice try bitch, but your an embarrasment. If I was your mom, I would’ve killed myself before you were born so that way there’d be at least one less idiot of the world
you really don’t know BTS right…
FYI BTS was always more popular internationaly than in korea.
their popularity in korea started in 2015 with i need u and blow up in 2016 with BST, korea started to notice BTS because of their international results, so…. yeah, it’s normal if BTS and Big Hit think their international fans are important.
+ the tours dates are decided way before they annouce them and before Dream Concert annouced their date, they can’t cancel a tour date to go to the Dream Concert and it’s not like all the kpop groups participate to the Dream Concert
So please stop writing these kind of articles.
I just laugh at your ridiculous articles
HAYYYS wasn’t bts who are copying big bang, BUT it is BIGHIT copying market strategy of YG that’s why it looks like bts don’t have real identity if this continue bts will always be shadow of big bang and the main reason is the company
BIG BANG ALWAYS HAD MORE THAN BTS ON YOUTUBE YOU RETARTED PIECE OF SH*T
AND BTS DEBUTED IN 2013
AND IBIGHIT IS NOT EVEN A BTS CHANNEL YOU DUMB SH*T
OH WRONG COMMENT ANYWAYS IT IS NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS WHAT BTS WNAT TO DO YOU DUMB SHI*
IT IS THEIR LIFE AND TOUR
SO DID YOU MAKE 1 OR 2 CENTS OFF OF THIS STUPID ARTICLE? CONGRATS.AND HOW IS ANY OF THIS RELATED TO DIGITAL MUSIC OR NEWS?YOU PROBABLY BRING DOWN THE AVERAGE IQ OF YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD TO 0.