Overview
- Netflix released the first trailer for the feature documentary BTS: The Return, which will stream on March 27.
- BTS’s fifth studio album, Arirang, arrives on March 20, marking the group’s first LP since completing mandatory military service.
- A live comeback show, BTS THE COMEBACK LIVE | ARIRANG, will stream globally from Seoul’s Gwanghwamun Square on March 21 via Netflix.
- The trailer features the seven members’ military discharges, Los Angeles writing sessions, studio work and onstage moments, highlighting themes of authenticity and identity with lines like “we’re still just a bunch of country kids from Korea.”
- The film is directed by Bao Nguyen and produced by This Machine and HYBE, while newly posted album credits list collaborators including Diplo, Ryan Tedder, Jpegmafia and Tame Impala.