🎭 The Arirang Busan Hears Tonight Isn’t a 600-Year-Old Relic — It’s a Song Still Growing — Woody Magazine, Jun. 13, 2026
Woody Magazine — Jun. 13, 2026 Woody Magazine A Song Still Growing 🎭 Culture — The real age of the Arirang the world sings Jun. 13, 2026 (Sat.) 🎭 Culture The Arirang Busan Hears Tonight Isn’t a 600-Year-Old Relic — It’s a Song Still Growing BTS is carrying Arirang to the world. But the single song the world sings back is younger than almost anyone assumes. Tonight, tens of thousands of voices fill Busan Asiad Stadium on Korea’s southern coast for the second and final night of BTS’s two-show ARIRANG stand in Busan — falling, as it happens, on June 13, the seven-member group’s debut anniversary, thirteen years on. Begun in Goyang in April, the tour runs to 85 shows across 34 cities in 23 countries, the largest ever mounted by a Korean act, and crowds far from Korea have learned to carry its Korean-language refrain: arirang, arirang, arariyo . The album that names the tour, rel...