On Saturday, BTS took the stage in central Seoul for a large-scale comeback show after a four-year pause, with the performance carried live on Netflix and built around the group's new album rollout. The event mattered beyond music because the city locked down a major downtown corridor to manage a crowd that swelled into the tens of thousands.

K-pop supergroup BTS made their long awaited return to the stage Saturday with a performance at Seoul’s Gwanghwamun Square, marking the band’s first appearance together in nearly four years.

BTS reunited after military service with their album, Arirang, a nod to Korea’s cultural anthem often heard at the Olympic Games, highlighting their sports ties – from taekwondo to the FIFA World Cup

The South Korean band broke into American pop culture by hitting the talk shows, performing on “Saturday Night Live” and appearing at the White House.

This is what Director Hamish Hamilton, who directed “BTS Comeback Live: Arirang” at Gwanghwamun Square in Seoul at 8 p.m. on the 21st, revealed. Hamilton, co-founder of global production company Done + Dusted and dubbed the “king of live events,

The last time BTS performed on “The Tonight Show” happened in 2021 during the group’s BTS takeover. The event amassed nearly 120 million digital views and featured performances of “Butter” and “Permission to Dance.” Since then, Jimin, SUGA, Jung Kook, Jin and j‑hope have each appeared individually on the show.

The boy band last appeared on the late night show as a group in July 2021.

Group BTS, following their comeback performance at Gwanghwamun, is heading to New York. This marks their first full-group stage in the U.S. in four years. According to U.S. economic media outlet Forbes and others on the 17th,