BTS Drops Promotional Animation Video and First Group Photo Ahead of Album Release

BTS Asks Poignant Question in New ‘ARIRANG’ Teaser Honoring Korean History: ‘What Is Your Love Song?’

BTS is honoring its country of origin’s history with new album ARIRANG, for which the members just dropped a meaningful animated trailer showing how the group’s modern-day impact on the Western world mirrors a story from many generations ago. Related BTS Is Ready For Business In New ‘Arirang’ Artwork …

BTS Unveil ‘ARIRANG’ Album Trailer, Links 1896 Korean Students To The Band’s Global Journey

The trailer connects this historical event to BTS's journey, symbolised by a red thread representing a destined connection.

BTS' Arirang animation trailer traces the origins and cultural inspiration behind the upcoming album

BTS' official YouTube channel before the much-awaited release of their fifth studio album Arirang. The animation is a prologue to the history and cultural influences that have inspired their latest release. The animation opens with the seven members of BTS sitting around a gramophone with their animated versions. As the music starts to play on the gramophone, the scene shifts to a historical scene of a ship crossing the Pacific Ocean with Korean…

BTS Arirang trailer stuns fans with an emotional 1896 history lesson: ‘The red thread of fate’

BTS Arirang trailer draws from a largely forgotten moment in 1896, when seven young Korean students in Washington, D.C., produced what are believed to be the earliest known audio recordings of "Arirang." More than a century later, BTS uses that history as the entry point to their most personally rooted album yet.

BTS drops promotional animation video and first group photo ahead of album release

The video is inspired by the story of seven young Koreans published in The Washington Post on May 8, 1896, some of whom also captured the first-known audio recordings of Koreans in Washington DC, in the US.