BTS kicks off South American tour for 'ARIRANG' in Bogota, Colombia

연합뉴스 · October 3, 2026 at 1:38 AM UTC

Management agency BigHit Music announced that the group BTS will begin the South American leg of their world tour 'ARIRANG' at Estadio El Campin in Bogota, Colombia, from the 2nd to the 3rd. The seven members are scheduled to hold a total of 14 concerts across 5 cities, including Lima in Peru, Santiago in Chile, Buenos Aires in Argentina, and Sao Paulo in Brazil. The Bogota City Secretariat of Economic Development estimated the economic impact of this concert at approximately 126.0544 billion Colombian pesos and projected the creation of 5,244 jobs. The queue for ticket purchases for the Lima concert exceeded 521,000 people, and more than 630,000 people flocked to Brazil during the two-day pre-sale period. As specific economic effects related to the tour and local responses from each country continue to emerge, global fans are focusing their attention on future concert schedules.