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Daily BTS⁷ 💜

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BTS THE COMEBACK LIVE | ARIRANG @ March 21 8pm KST / 4am PST 🎤 BTS will perform at historic Gwanghwamun Square in Seoul. LIVE worldwide exclusively on Netflix.

BTS: THE RETURN, DOCUMENTARY FILM @ March 27 🎥 BTS: THE RETURN, a documentary film showcasing the making of their comeback album ARIRANG.

February 3, 2026 at 12:06 AM

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TK

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all january content unlocked!
enjoy the shenanigansss

BTS OT7 1/16 LIVE

BTS 1/16 OT7 Live discussing ARIRANG Album reveal... a little bit. Mainly it's shenanigans... JK turns into a circle so many times.

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February 2, 2026 at 6:38 AM

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BTS Translations / Bangtansubs

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260202 RM's Instagram Stories

Story 1:
S S Start!

Story 2:
After 4 years
BTS is back in business

Trans cr; Annie @ bts-trans
© TAKE OUT WITH FULL CREDITS

🔗 www.instagram.com/stories/rkiv...
🔗 www.instagram.com/stories/rkiv...

February 2, 2026 at 4:10 PM

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CatiK

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Yooooooongi ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

#SUGA on IG #BTS

January 31, 2026 at 9:06 AM

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TK

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Felt my translation brain start to rust so on a whim I checked to see if there were any old lives from 'Jan 29' from years back - and lo and behold on 1/29/2020, V did a live ft. 2 other members...

Here's a throwback translation of V's Jan 29, 2020 Live
#BTS #btstranslations #btsarmy

V 1/29/2020 LIVE

A throwback to a live from January 29, 2020... featuring V with guest member features unpacking a Black Swan performance, j-hope getting kicked in the face, and more!

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January 30, 2026 at 3:08 AM

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kelz⁷ spring is coming!

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no cause how could hobi handle those two looking at him like that🥹

Tae and Jungkook holding hands and standing next to each other looking SO CUTE. they're both wearing hobi's acorn merch bomber jackets and jk on the left has this CUTE brown hat on, Tae is wearing a black mask and brown baseball hat

January 29, 2026 at 2:32 PM

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BTS Translations / Bangtansubs

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260125 V’s Instagram Stories

The new plant parent is crying..
Why is this already..

Trans cr; Priya & Aditi @ bts-trans
© TAKE OUT WITH FULL CREDITS

🔗 instagram.com/stories/thv/...

January 25, 2026 at 4:27 PM

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D2A MicroFunds⁷

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US/PR ARMY are you looking for a bargain? Right now, Barnes & Noble has the lowest prices for ARIRANG CDs.

Compare pricing at US retailers:
tinyurl.com/ARIRANG-US-p...

Billboard Physical Album Rule: Max 4 copies per version per retailer per customer

#BTS #BTS_ARIRANG
#BTSComeback #BTSISBACK

January 25, 2026 at 7:53 PM

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D2A MicroFunds⁷

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7 million pre-orders + 7 million pre-saves

US/PR ARMY did you know our #BTS_ARIRANG pre-orders at US retailers COUNT FOR THE GLOBAL PREORDER RECORD? Let’s set records for global pre-orders AND Billboard 200.

Pre-order and pre-save today: bts.lnk.to/ARIRANG

January 25, 2026 at 7:57 PM

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BTS TICKET HELPER⁷

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Helping ARMYs sell/trade tickets and expose scammers since 2018!

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Please check my carrd to find out how this account works. DM me if you have any questions! 💜

BTS TICKET HELPER

Helping ARMY resell, trade tickets, and expose scammers!

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May 25, 2025 at 3:24 AM

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🖍️moonchowder⁷⁼¹⟭⟬E ARE B⟬⟭CK

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Got permission to post @sarabangtan07.bsky.social 's beautiful translation of rm's latest letter. There are nuances here that were lost in the other translations i read. I think it's one of namjoon's most poetic letters. Worth framing on our wall🤭

Ss of sarabangtan's translation of rm's latest letter.

January 24, 2026 at 4:28 AM

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TK

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Q: TODAY's LOOK?
1: Hi Vogue, I'm Jimin. I'm wearing Jonathan Anderson's new collection, pretty right?

Q: TODAY's TMI?
2: There's this member named V, he said he's hangout today and has since ghosted me ::neckslice:: I'm just kidding

#BTS #jimin #parkjimin

VOGUE KOREA on Instagram: "#협찬 #VogueView #Jimin <보그> 2월호를 장식한 지민의 촬영 비하인드. 화보 촬영 전 루틴부터 오늘의 TMI, 2026년 목표까지! 조나단 앤더슨의 디올과 함께한 지민의 하루를 영상으로 만나보세요. digital editor CHANG SORA fashion editor SOHN EUNYOU...

100K likes, 2,744 comments - voguekorea on January 18, 2026: "#협찬 #VogueView #Jimin <보그> 2월호를 장식한 지민의 촬영 비하인드. 화보 촬영 전 루틴부터 오늘의 TMI, 2026년 목표까지! 조나단 앤더슨의 디올과 함께한 지민의 하루를 영상으로 만나보세요. digital editor CH...

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January 19, 2026 at 7:52 AM

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yrrweg⁷🦢

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They all speak when you hover your cursor over them! I recorded them here (from 2026bts.com )

#BTS

January 18, 2026 at 4:16 PM

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TK

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it just occurred some ppl don't know this

🔴🔴🔴
ARMYRANG ARIRANG
is not just a random rhyme smashing ARMY in front of a bad rhyme lol

ARMY랑 아리랑
ARIRANG with ARMY

+랑 =with
친구랑 공부 하러 갔어
chingooRANG gongbu haro gassuh
I went to study WITH my chingoo (friend)

just "ARMYRANG" = ARMY랑 =
"with ARMY"

January 17, 2026 at 12:47 AM

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Daily BTS⁷ 💜

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A beautiful breakdown of Arirang & ARMYrang by user zarahgeeh— Filipino librarian, folklorist, writer & ARMY. Sharing this here for those not on Threads because this love, history, and meaning deserves to be heard. 💜

(🔗: www.threads.com/@zarahgeeh/p...)

I have been sitting with this for hours now, trying to steady myself because, my goodness, BTS has done something sublime, yet again.
Because, to name the comeback album, “Arirang” is not just an album title. And for them to send ARMY a message on Apple Music, calling us ARMYrang is not just a message.
As a librarian, as a folklorist, as a writer of folk tales, and as ARMY, this moment reaches far deeper than fandom. It touches the part of me that understands how culture survives;
how stories of ordinary people make the fabric of sovereignty and nationhood.
Arirang comes from folk tradition. It is not a song you own. It is a song you carry. It is a story you offer.
It has no single author. It belongs to farmers and migrants, to those who labored and waited, to people who crossed mountains and borders with grief in their pockets and hope folded carefully into song. Arirang has always been sung at thresholds, when leaving, when returning, when words are not enough.
So when BTS name their comeback album, Arirang, this is not nostalgia.
This is not branding. This is not a trend.
This is inheritance. This is heritage. A cultural artifact brought back to consciousness.

BTS is not saying we are back. They are saying we endured. They are saying we crossed. They are saying we remember who we are and where we come from.
And then, ARMYrang.
That word undid me.
In folk traditions, the refrain of song and story exists so others can join in.
The song lives because someone answers back. To be named inside a song and story is to be acknowledged as part of its survival.
ARMYrang is not a term of endearment. By using folk literature, BTS is addressing us as kin and community.
BTS says: you are not the audience.
You are not just a market. You are not merely a number.
You are part of the refrain.
As a librarian, I know this as second skin: for culture to survive it needs to be remembered and to be lived.
Because someone must keep on singing, retelling, passing it on with care.

As a folklorist, I know what it means to step into collective authorship; to speak with humility, to carry a story without flattening it, to trust the people who receive it to hold it well.
As ARMY, I know what it has meant to wait. As a mother, I learned how to hold joy and sorrow together. Being a woman, I know how to sing quietly when shouting would break us.
And now, ARMYrang. It feels like love eternal not
because it promises forever but because it promises continuance.
Eternity, in folk culture, is not endless time. It is unbroken transmission.
A song passed hand to hand.
A name spoken with care.
A people who show up, again and again, to sing. To tell stories.
This comeback does not ask us to scream. It asks us to listen.
It does not demand attention.
It asks for reverence.
Putang ina. Paiiyakin tayo ng Bangtan. (Fuck, Bangtan will make us cry!)

Not because this is dramatic.
But because this is true.
This is what it looks like when artists return not as products, but as people. And when they call their listeners not fans, but kin.
I am still gathering my wits. Really. I think I will be for a while.
But I know this much:
To be ARMY in this moment, to be called ARMYrang, is to stand inside a very old song to be held and to belong there.
Apobangpo! Purple and true! 💜

January 17, 2026 at 3:06 PM

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TK

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BTS OT7 1/16 LIVE Translation Up

They discuss Arirang, JK turns into a circle multiple times, Jimin's true form (baby duck) makes an appearance, laser hair removal, taking things from RM's house, and more!

#BTS #arirang #bts2026 #btstranslations

BTS OT7 1/16 LIVE

BTS 1/16 OT7 Live discussing ARIRANG Album reveal... a little bit. Mainly it's shenanigans... JK turns into a circle so many times.

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January 18, 2026 at 12:51 AM

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D2A MicroFunds⁷

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US & Puerto Rico ARMY do you know about the BTS Official US Store website? You can buy physical albums, digital albums, singles CDs, and your purchases will be counted for US Billboard charts. See our #ARMYEDU2026 how to guide for 🛍️ on the website

shop.bts-official.us

#BTS_ARIRANG

Buy on the BTS Official US Store. A guide for BTS ARMY in the United States and Puerto Rico.
First, only US/PR ARMY go to https://shop.bts-official.us/ and select BTS or the member name from menu.
Second, add items to your cart. Follow the guidelines on the max items. Digital albums and physicals single CDs are limited to 1 per version per customer and physical albums are limited to 4 per version per customer.
Third, enter your shipping details and payment information to complete checkout.
Fourth, download digital albums via the link sent in your email confirmation. YOU MUST DOWNLOAD FOR YOUR SALE TO COUNT FOR BILLBOARD CHARTS.
Note: Do not place group orders on the BTS Official US Store. Multiple orders for the same products sent to the same shipping address are deleted from the chart totals.

January 16, 2026 at 1:37 AM

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D2A MicroFunds⁷

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💜NEW MATCH CHALLENGE💜

ARMY, ARIRANG is here! A group of wonderful ARMY has offered a $777 match. Please help us meet our goal and make this comeback leJINdary! Let's give our seven a comeback that kings deserve.

💰0/777
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January 16, 2026 at 5:16 PM

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TK

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🐨🩵 RM 1/16 Weverse Post Translated

RM Weverse Post - 1/16

Poetry with RM to start the day... what a beautiful bright spot in 2026

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January 16, 2026 at 1:42 PM

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BTS Translations / Bangtansubs

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📅 260116 Weverse Translations

RM’s Post ❇️

‘Love’ continues to be a complicated word for me.
Have I ever, even just once, actually loved someone?
I have held on to that question for so long
and all I’ve grown surer of,
is the fact that I still don’t know.

Last year, I felt trapped in a lot of +

January 16, 2026 at 5:09 PM

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urmysoap⁷

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There’s many more layers to the title than just this, but this layer sits very close to my heart: “From the 1960s to 1980s, when Korea was under the rule of authoritarian leaders, "Arirang" was often used as a song for pro-democracy rallies.”

www.koreatimes.co.kr/lifestyle/20...

From lyrical folk song to cheering song: variations of 'Arirang' in Korean history - The Korea Times

"Arirang," which was put on the UNESCO's intangible heritage list Thursday, is the most popular traditional folk song of Koreans.The song with the...

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January 15, 2026 at 3:50 PM

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TK

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So... what is arirang?

Now available for everyone! Feel free to share/screenshot/repost/etc. w/ credit.

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ARIRANG (아리랑)

What does ARIRANG mean???

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January 15, 2026 at 8:28 PM

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불토끼 |Lin⁷⁼¹ 아포방포 ~ For the rest of my life 💜

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I am deeply emotional and endeared by the title they have chosen for the album.
No clear, distinctive translation, but the feelings of hope, resilience and overcoming difficulties, the song so beloved that a nation will immediately recognize its notes and weep if they are away from home.+

January 15, 2026 at 3:35 PM

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Daily BTS⁷ 💜

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GQ Korea — BTS V Interview & Feature (More photos)

“GQ: A kind of beauty, you don’t want to lose or want not to change as time passes?

V: What I don’t want to lose is our members. What I want not to change is the relationship between ARMY and us.”

Source: www.gqkorea.co.kr/2026/01/15/%...