As promised at the start of the new year, at exactly midnight on January 14 (KST), BigHit Music unveiled the poster and schedule for BTS’s 2026 world tour through the fan platform Weverse. This marks BTS’s first world tour in approximately four years, following the conclusion of their “BTS PERMISSION TO DANCE ON STAGE” tour in Las Vegas, the United States, in 2022.
The group will kick off the new world tour with concerts scheduled for April 9, 11, and 12 at Goyang Sports Complex. Following the Goyang shows, BTS is set to hold tour concerts in Busan for two days starting June 12, around the group’s debut anniversary on June 13.
BTS will then continue touring across 34 cities with a total of 79 performances, spanning North αмєяι¢α, Europe, South αмєяι¢α, and Asia. Notably, during the North αмєяι¢αn leg, BTS will become the first кσяєαn artist to hold concerts at some of the world’s largest stadiums, including AT&T Stadium in Arlington and M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore.
The agency stated that this will be the tour with the highest number of shows ever for a single K-pop artist, adding that additional dates in נαραи and the Middle East will be announced in the future, further expanding the scale of the tour. Meanwhile, the UK’s public broadcaster BBC predicted that BTS could generate USD 1 billion (KRW 1.478 trillion) in revenue from their year-long world tour.
Since the world tour schedule was announced, fans around the globe have been sent into a frenzy. Across social media platforms and both domestic and international media over the past several hours, attention has been focused on a single topic: the world tour of the “21st-century pop icons.” However, crucially, several hours before BigHit Music made the official announcement, a wave of news had already stirred the fandom. Among them was a leaked report claiming that Goyang would be selected as the starting point of BTS’s 2026 global tour.
Even more surprisingly, this single piece of leaked information was enough to result in all hotels surrounding Goyang Sports Complex being fully booked on accommodation apps for April 10 through April 12. Several fans reported this situation on Twitter hours before BigHit Music officially revealed the schedule, prompting reactions from other fans such as, “YALL INSANE OR WHAT???? THE DATES NOT EVEN OUT YET,” “wtf… the dates aren’t even announced yet,” “I’ll laugh if the dates were fake and yall did this for nothing,” and “D*MN dates not even announced yet,” among others.
In addition, areas farther away also experienced a shortage of available rooms, with some hotels abruptly raising prices due to the surge in demand. One fan complained, “I was laughing so hard cause a mini hotel was 260k won a night while MARRIOT was f***ing 160k slkdfjslkdfjds and I was like??” just half an hour before BigHit Music officially announced the dates at midnight on the 14th.
In reality, accommodation shortages or sudden spikes in lodging prices around concert venues are not unprecedented. In the past, during BTS concerts—or more recently, Jin’s solo encore concert in Incheon—fans also reported local hotels significantly raising prices or canceling reservations without explanation. However, this appears to be the first time that hotels around Goyang were completely sold out several hours before BigHit Music even confirmed the official schedule.
Some have begun to question whether this could be a tactic by hotels to drive up service prices, while others wonder how confident early bookers were that they would secure concert tickets to the extent that they reserved hotel rooms in advance. Meanwhile, some fans have already started searching for nearby cities or more practical and affordable alternatives in preparation for the possibility of obtaining tickets to the Goyang concerts.
Fans have expressed a wide range of reactions in the comments under posts discussing this topic, which have now surpαѕѕed 1 million views:
- This is crazy all the hotels in the area around the possible BTS tour dates locations are already fully booked in кσяєα!!
- The devil works hard but karmys work harder
- because why am i panicking over this when i know d*mn well i am not going to be able to go to the korea stops ???
- When these guys went to the military, some of us were happily thinking that a few people must have quit being ARMY. Now they’ve booked hotels even before the tour was announced. How are you even supposed to compete?
- Even if I were earning 300,000 a month, I still couldn’t compete with them at this pace. Who am I even comparing myself to, d*mn it
- Lemme book my Busan Airbnb today. This is so insane
- кσяєα about to make serious bank ! I know everyone is happy af , from the government to business owners.
- The кσяєα show dates got leaked and they literally sold out most of the hotels in the area—holy s**. This BTS tour opening is going to be historic. You guys are mαѕѕive
- This is only the beginning—the real ticketing war is still ahead. The journey to a BTS concert is going to be a tough one, my friends
