A total of 45,000 people will be allowed to attend the concert of K-pop superstars BTS in Seoul in March.
This is based on the report received by Korean lawmaker Rep. Jeon Yonggi from the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MCST) about pop music concerts approved in Korea from September 2021.
BTS will hold their “BTS Permission to Dance on Stage-Seoul” concert on March 10, 12 and 13 at the Olympic Stadium.
According to the report, the MCST approved the BTS concert to have 15,000 people per concert day or a three-day total of 45,000, the biggest number of people allowed in an event since the COVID-19 pandemic started in 2020.
This will be BTS’ first in-person concert in nearly two and a half years since the “2019 BTS World Tour Love Yourself: Speak Yourself The Final” that was held on Oct. 26, 27 and 29, 2019 in Seoul.
The number of people that will be allowed to go to the BTS concert will be at least three times larger than that of other singers since the MCST considers the Olympic Stadium as outdoors.
The MCST approves performances within 50 percent of the venue capacity, or based on the number of seats. In case of indoor performances, up to 4,000 people are allowed.
Korean media reported that the Olympic Stadium has about 65,599 seats. Based on the approved number for the BTS concert, 15,000, the total is equivalent to 22.9 percent of the venue’s capacity.
The MCST report also revealed from November last year up to Feb. 16 this year, a total of 149 performances have been approved by the ministry.
Based on the report, the events with the second highest number of audience allowed were at the KSPO Dome and Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul from Dec. 17 to 19. These were the events by trot singer Na Hoon-a and K-pop boy band NCT, each with an audience of 5,000.
The concerts of NU’EST and TWICE were allowed to have 4,000 people each.