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| In this undated provided photo, the streets around Busan's Asiad Main Stadium, where BTS held its "Yet to Come in Busan" concert to support the city's bid to host the World Expo 2030 on Oct. 15, are illuminated with 600 purple lights to welcome the group and its global fans. Courtesy of Busan Metropolitan Government |
By Lee Hae-rin
The southeastern port city of Busan plans to make a BTS-World Expo 2030 Busan road around Busan's Asiad Main Stadium, where the K-pop giant held "Yet to Come in Busan," a concert to support the city's bid to host the event on Oct. 15, according to the city government, Sunday.
The Busan Metropolitan Government will light up the roads near the concert venue stretching for one kilometer with purple, the emblematic color of the boy band and its fans, ARMY.
Along the sidewalk, the city plans to display images and phrases that support the port city's bid to host the World Expo with laser projectors, the city government said.
Before and after the concert, from Oct. 13 to 17, Busan installed 600 purple lights along the roads around the venue in celebration of the event. The city also illuminated its major tourist attractions, including Mount Hwangnyeong, Busan Tower and Busan Port Bridge, as part of a special lighting event to welcome BTS and its fans who came to visit the city from all over the world.
Busan plans to mark the destination as one of the city's top tourist attractions and stage several events there while campaigning to host World Expo 2030.
Korea, along with Saudi Arabia and Italy, has submitted its bid to host the international event in 2030. The final winner will be announced at the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) general assembly in November next year.
If World Expo 2030 is hosted in Busan, Korea will become the world's 12th country to host a World Expo and the seventh country in the world to host all three mega-events: the Olympics, the World Cup and the World Expo.
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