Finally they are back.

Global group BTS has officially announced a comeback in the spring of 2026.

BTS, the ‘21st century pop icon’, personally revealed news of their comeback during a live broadcast on the global superfan platform Weverse on the night of the 1st, saying, “Our group album will be released next spring.We will start preparing by ourselves starting in July.Since it is a group album, I think all the members ‘thoughts will go into it.We will go back to the beginning and work on it.”

He also added, “We are also planning a world tour with the new album.We will be visiting various places around the world, so please look forward to it.”

Then, in July, they revealed specific plans to sequentially move to the United States to begin working on music and preparing for performances.

They will be embarking on a massive world tour in 2026 with the release of their new album, once again painting the world with purple waves.

BTS’ world tour will be their first in about four years since ‘BTS PERMISSION TO DANCE ON STAGE’, which ended in 2022.At that time, the tour gathered an audience of about 4 million through in-person performances, online live streaming, live viewing, and live play.

BTS also talked about their upcoming activities for the second half of the year.They shared an anecdote about Jin’s fan concert tour ‘#RUNSEOKJIN_EP.TOUR’ that started in Goyang on the 28th and 29th of last month.The members who watched the concert live left comments like, “We really enjoyed it.He played the piano so well and it was a performance that only Jin could do,” encouraging Jin.After successfully wrapping up the’ j - hope Tour ‘HOPE ON THE STAGE’, J-Hope will be performing as a headliner at ‘Lollapalooza Berlin’ to be held at the Olympiastadion Berlin, Germany on the 12th and 13th.The members said, “We’re really looking forward to it and we think he’ll do well.”

This is BTS’ first group live broadcast since September 2022, and it received more attention than ever before.The live broadcast that lasted about 30 minutes on this day surpassed 7.3 million total real-time views.



Reporter Lee Jeong- annjoy@donga.com

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