8List.ph
  • News
    • Showbiz
    • Opinion
    • Sports
    • Profiles
    • Weird
  • Adulting
    • Career
    • Money
    • Health
    • School & Learning
    • Relationships
  • Pop
    • Movies & TV
    • Music
    • Books
    • Games
    • Theater
    • Retro
    • K-World
  • Lifestyle
    • Style
    • Beauty
    • Food & Drink
    • Nest
    • Tech
    • Travel
    • Pinoy
  • Videos
    • Slam8ook
    • Isabuhay Ang Panata
    • 8list Plays
    • Archives
      • 8List Asks
      • 8List Explores
      • 8List Presents
      • 88 Seconds
      • 8secs
      • Filgood
      • Kaya Today!
      • Pagsubeks
      • #8MinutesWith
      • YOUth DECIDE
      • Str8 Up with Delamar
      • Toughest Job 2016
  • Breathe
  • About
  • Sitemap
  • Advertise
  • Privacy
  • Archive
  • Bitesized.ph
  • Windowseat.ph

 

 

 

8List.ph is published by ID8, Inc.

Subscribe
8List.ph
8List.ph
  • News
    • Showbiz
    • Opinion
    • Sports
    • Profiles
    • Weird
  • Adulting
    • Career
    • Money
    • Health
    • School & Learning
    • Relationships
  • Pop
    • Movies & TV
    • Music
    • Books
    • Games
    • Theater
    • Retro
    • K-World
  • Lifestyle
    • Style
    • Beauty
    • Food & Drink
    • Nest
    • Tech
    • Travel
    • Pinoy
  • Videos
    • Slam8ook
    • Isabuhay Ang Panata
    • 8list Plays
    • Archives
      • 8List Asks
      • 8List Explores
      • 8List Presents
      • 88 Seconds
      • 8secs
      • Filgood
      • Kaya Today!
      • Pagsubeks
      • #8MinutesWith
      • YOUth DECIDE
      • Str8 Up with Delamar
      • Toughest Job 2016
  • Breathe
  • K-World
  • Music

8 Reasons Why Flying to Seoul to See BTS in March 2022 Isn’t a Good Idea Right Now

  • Posted on Dec 9, 2021Sep 12, 2022
  • 7 minute read
  • Kyzia Maramara
Total
1
Shares
0
0
1

8 Reasons Why Flying to Seoul to See BTS in March 2022 Isn’t a Good Idea Right Now

Dec 9, 2021   •   Kyzia Maramara

After the successful four-day “Permission to Dance on Stage” in Los Angeles attended by 200,000 fans, it looks like the biggest band in the world is gearing up for another live concert. This time, it’s in their home country, South Korea for BTS in Seoul, March 2022.

See you in Seoul, MARCH 2022#PTD_ON_STAGE_SEOUL #PermissiontoDance #BTSCONCERT #BTS #방탄소년단 pic.twitter.com/wVcuUzXZIW

— BTS_official (@bts_bighit) December 3, 2021

ARMY is ecstatic. Another in-person concert so soon? Fans who couldn’t fly to L.A. might actually get the chance to see BTS perform live. PTD ON STAGE has a special place in everyone’s hearts since it was the first time after two years that RM, Jin, SUGA, j-hope, Jimin, V, and Jung Kook performed in front of a live audience. And now it looks like we’ll have more of those face-to-face performances in the year to come. But for Filipino ARMYs literally shaking from excitement, you might want to hold your horses. Flying to South Korea might not be such a good idea right now and here’s why.

 

There’s a quarantine period of 10 days after you land in South Korea

South Korea to impose 10-day quarantine for all incoming travellers, regardless of vaccination status, from Friday amid new Omicron variant fears https://t.co/H6qP3bHhpq pic.twitter.com/CROtlaQ6em

— CNA (@ChannelNewsAsia) December 1, 2021

Because of the new Omicron COVID-19 variant, South Korea has once again tightened its health and safety measures. Once you land in the county, you’d have to spend a mandatory 10 days in quarantine with expenses out of your own pocket. Even BTS members who just arrived from L.A. aren’t safe from the new policy. Not only does that spell expensive, but it’s also a waste of time. A 10-day quarantine would mean you’d have to spend at least two weeks in the country locked in a hotel room. Days you could’ve spent exploring what the country has to offer and capping it off with the concert.

.@BTS_twt Jin, Jimin and Jungkook to reportedly return to South Korea on December 4. The rest of the members will go after them. Upon arrival at the airport, they will undergo a PCR test and then enter self-quarantine for 10 days.

🔗https://t.co/BZCbRXDQmE pic.twitter.com/eSHCFcFE30

— BTSFOREVERARMY || Permission To Dance (@btsforever0213) December 5, 2021

Gift Your ARMY Friends the ~*Coolest*~ BTS Fanmade Merch From These Local Stores
Gift Your ARMY Friends the ~*Coolest*~ BTS Fanmade Merch From These Local Stores
Kyzia Maramara | Dec 03, 2021

 

South Korea doesn’t allow tourists at the moment

Via Source

Let’s say you’ve got money enough to last you a 10-day quarantine in the country. That’s nice. The only problem is you can’t actually land in Korea since they aren’t allowing foreigners or tourists from the Philippines at the moment. According to Philippine Airlines, unless you have a Korean passport or you’re married to a Korean national, you can’t enter South Korea.

 

South Korea’s vaccine system recognition is delicate

.@USEmbassySeoul with 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇳 embassies has asked 🇰🇷 gov for urgent recognition of foreign nationals fully vaccinated overseas. They should have same access rights to public facilities as those Korean nationals fully vaccinated overseas.

— U.S. Embassy Seoul (@USEmbassySeoul) December 7, 2021

At the moment, South Korea only recognizes fully vaccinated individuals who (a) got their vaccines in the country and (b) are Koreans. These people get privileges such as dining in public, entering buildings, and more just by scanning their vaccine passes. But foreign nationals who have been vaccinated overseas aren’t given the same treatment. It won’t matter if you have the complete vaccine doses with papers to prove it. If you’re not Korean or you didn’t get inoculated in South Korea, you can’t register those doses ergo they’re useless. This is why embassies are currently urging the South Korean embassy to change their policy, stirring talks of discrimination. But it looks like that’s not happening anytime soon.

ARMY! Can You Identify the BTS Music Video With Just One Screenshot?
ARMY! Can You Identify the BTS Music Video With Just One Screenshot?
Kyzia Maramara | Nov 26, 2021

 

They’re going on a world tour anyway

BTS WORLD TOUR 2022 ITS HAPPENING SAVE YOUR MONEY #PTD_ON_STAGE_LA pic.twitter.com/TC8BS2yLLT

— ❀⁷ (@itsapjm) December 3, 2021

BTS has yet to confirm their world tour but every ARMY knows it’s coming. Many even anticipated the tour to be announced after PTD Day 4. We got the Seoul, March 2022 teaser instead, but everyone knows that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

ARMY isn’t exactly pulling these speculations out of nowhere and manifesting a tour out of the sheer desire to see the boys. BTS themselves gave their fans solid hints. In one of their interviews at iHeartRadio’s Jingle Ball 2021, a reporter asked them to “blink three times” if we should be expecting a new album and a 2022 world tour. Here’s what they did:

“blink if you have new album and world tour happening”

BTS: pic.twitter.com/GECc4xtqtl

— Mel⁷ MISSES BTS (@withlovebts7) December 4, 2021

We must’ve counted 77 blinks. Kings of comedy? Subtlety? Even Namjoon’s “Only God knows” can’t save them. There’s a world tour coming, folks. If you can’t join them for the Seoul, March 2022 event, maybe you can in another country on the world tour.

 

BTS has a concert ticket lottery system (which you might not win)

ANNOUNCING Fanclub Raffle Winners for BTS MAP OF THE SOUL TOUR – SEOUL!

See if you won the raffle! 👉 https://t.co/lCYvOw4GQP#BTS #MapOfTheSoulTour pic.twitter.com/LGinAd1Gep

— Weverse Shop (@weverseshop) February 6, 2020

In the Philippines, there are two ways to buy a concert ticket: line up in person at ticketing booths or try your luck booking tickets online. But for BTS concert tickets in South Korea, the process is a bit tricky and nerve-wracking. The ticketing system is a lottery and it comes in waves. First, you have to have an ARMY Membership ($22/roughly P1,109.56) that completely matches your valid ID details. In the event that you win a ticket, you’d have to present both to claim it.

There are two waves of raffles based on previous BTS concerts. The first one is the Fan Club Raffle that’s mostly for floor and first-level tickets. Once you win here, you get to claim a ticket and pay for it. And then there’s the Fan Club Early Reservation where those with ARMY Membership get to reserve tickets not claimed in the raffle. After this, the seats are opened for the general public who will snap it up in seconds. This system is supposed to encourage fair ticketing circumstances so scalpers can’t hoard tickets.

“The lottery system will be put in place in hopes to eliminate unfair circumstances and is one of the many improvements that BigHit introduced to improve their fans’ concert experiences.”

I honestly like this #BigHit 💁🏽‍♀️ @BTS_twt pic.twitter.com/7td9l8iMPX

— ᴮᴱ kyara⁷ ⟭⟬ saw BTS!!💜 (@kyaramonic) August 21, 2019

If you want to have good seats, you’ll want to join the lottery. (Although I’d argue that any seat at a BTS concert is a good seat.) But if you’ve never won a raffle your whole life, it’s going to be disappointing.

 

Ever-changing global pandemic landscape

The state of the global pandemic is a lottery as much as BTS tickets are. Everyone thought we were slowly successfully burying COVID-19 underneath millions of fully vaccinated individuals around the world. But then news of a new variant came — Omicron, a strain that scientists are saying might not fully work against our vaccines. Borders are once again closing and the stock market is plummeting. One thing is for sure — while we’re in the middle of the pandemic, nothing is certain. Flying out puts you at risk of not only contracting the virus but also being stuck out there with no way back home. If you have a choice between safety and security or following your whims, you should know better.

 

It will probably have online streaming

Who’s excited to see the rest of PERMISSION TO DANCE ON STAGE – LA?🙌 Can’t wait to see you all again very soon!💜

🌟 Highlights of #PTD_ON_STAGE_LA: https://t.co/UrpyZYG8QM
🎫 Get Your Online Streaming Ticket: https://t.co/Kq8Rcb75Ku#Stage_For_ARMY #방탄소년단 #BTS

— BTS_official (@bts_bighit) November 30, 2021

We bet our left kidneys there will be an official online streaming ticket purchase for whatever’s happening in March 2022. BTS knows how much fans all over the world want to attend their concerts so they make it as accessible as possible, albeit online. Just like the fourth day of their PTD stage in L.A., you can trust that they’ll open online streaming too. Besides the fact that you can’t see the boys face to face, an online concert is still awesome. It’s convenient and the multiview option gives you six camera angles that are undoubtedly the best seats in the house.

 

Because you’ll live even if you don’t see them in Seoul, March 2022

TO THE PERSON WHO’S READING THIS, YOU WILL BE A PART OF THIS PURPLE OCEAN SOON. CLAIM IT! pic.twitter.com/PfKoXFGcav

— luna (@VANTAEJE0NS) December 3, 2021

ARMY, we feel you. We understand the visceral desire to see BTS in the flesh and to be part of that purple ocean at least once in our lives. But this isn’t the right time to fly to Seoul just yet. Hold on a little longer and maybe the upcoming world tour lands them in cities that are better for tourists. Or maybe, *just maybe,* they’ll consider stopping in the Philippines. A girl can dream, right?

But even if you don’t get to see BTS in person, that doesn’t make you any less of a fan. Just dance your feelings out to Jin’s “Super Tuna” and you’ll be alright.

💾: https://t.co/Lsu7egCqQG#JIN #석진 #SEOKJIN #BTS #방탄소년단진 @BTS_twt pic.twitter.com/DY0Qj1vnDy

— k s j g⁷ ♐️ (@kimseokjingifs) December 4, 2021

 

Check us out on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube, and be the first to know about the latest news and coolest trends!   


Total
1
Shares
0
0
1
Related Topics
  • BTS
  • K-Pop
  • music
Avatar photo
Kyzia Maramara

Kyzia spends most of her time capturing the world around her through photos, paragraphs, and playlists. She is constantly on the hunt for the perfect chocolate chip cookie, and a great paperback thriller to pair with it.

Previous Article
  • Lifestyle

The 8List.ph Gift Guide: 8 Awesome Gifts to Give Someone Impossible to Shop For

  • Posted on Dec 9, 2021Sep 12, 2022
  • Kyzia Maramara
View Post
Next Article
  • Showbiz

‘I Feel Great … Life in Siargao Is So Simple’ Is What Nadine Lustre Says About Her Move to the Island

  • Posted on Dec 9, 2021
  • Meryl Medel
View Post
You May Also Like
View Post
  • K-World

8 Lee Minho in Manila Moments We’re Sure Fans Will Hold in Their Hearts Forever

  • Posted on Apr 29, 2025
  • Meryl Medel
View Post
  • K-World
  • Lifestyle

Everything You Need to Know About the BTS Pop-Up: Space of BTS in Metro Manila

  • Posted on Mar 20, 2025Mar 20, 2025
  • Meryl Medel
View Post
  • K-World

Lee Minho Is Returning to Manila, and Tickets Start Selling This Weekend

  • Posted on Mar 14, 2025
  • Meryl Medel
View Post
  • K-World
  • Music

Taeyeon in Manila 2025: Ticket Prices, Important Dates, and Everything You Should Know

  • Posted on Feb 21, 2025
  • Meryl Medel
View Post
  • Music

10 Years of Wanderland: 8 Things You Need to Know About the Much-Awaited Music Festival

  • Posted on Feb 20, 2025Feb 20, 2025
  • Ina Louise Manto
View Post
  • Music

Bloom Onwards, BINI: Notes on The Grand BINIverse Repeat

  • Posted on Feb 18, 2025
  • Juan Miguel Severo
View Post
  • K-World

K-Dramas to Watch If You’re a New Fan of ‘Love Scout’s’ Lee Joon Hyuk

  • Posted on Feb 3, 2025
  • Andy Flores
View Post
  • Music

Cup of Joe Explains the Story Behind Each Song From Their Album, ‘Silakbo’

  • Posted on Jan 17, 2025Jan 17, 2025
  • Kyzia Maramara

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Get the l8est delivered right to your inbox.

8List.ph
  • About
  • Sitemap
  • Advertise
  • Privacy
  • Archive
  • Bitesized.ph
  • Windowseat.ph
Your daily dose of entertaining, useful and informative lists.

Input your search keywords and press Enter.