Saturday, April 11, 2026

BTS Arirang Tour

Momoko and I watched a free BTS tour teaser on Netflix. It was a 1 hour special. They sung a bunch of new songs from their new album. This week, their full world tour started in Korea. Momoko purchased an e-ticket to stream their second concert.

I wanted to watch too. So, Momoko enlisted Little Kat to help her project the concert from her laptop. Little Kat ordered a cable or two from Amazon. They did not work. In the end, he discovered Momoko's adapter had an HDMI port. We used my plain HDMI cable to connect her laptop to the big screen TV.

We woke up early this morning. Convert was to start at 6am. But you could log in as early as 5am. We were set up, watching the pre-concert show. Then we lost connection. Momoko scrambled to re-verify herself. There was no hurry. The band was 10 minutes late to start the concert.

There were trying a new concert setup. It was a 360 degree view. Their center stage rotated slowly. Their backup dancers had all kinds of items such as computer screens that show different images. They also later brought out the sheets.

At one point in the concert, the whole band walked off stage down and circled the stadium. They were singing the whole time. RM was pushed in some sort of chair on a chariot. They did a lot of talking to the fans. There was no encore. They did not play Mikromosmos, my new second favorite song. At least there was not bad weather like their tour opening show.

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