Bruno Mars shouts in Seoul “Bogoshipoyo, my baby!”
[Photo Credit to Paul Ryu]
On 17th of June, Bruno Mars had his Hyundai Card Super Concert in Olympic Stadium, South Korea.
The ticketing for the Bruno Mars concert started on 27th and 28th of May and it didn’t take long for all the tickets to be sold; It only took approximately 40 minutes for him to sell out the stadium seats.
This was especially remarkable since it had over 1,000,000 concurrent accessors on both days- 1,030,000 on 27th, 1,160,000 on 28th- which is more than the last Coldplay’s concert which was held in Korea.
Bruno Mars had his world tour visiting several regions such as Seoul, Korea, Manila, Philippines, São Paulo, Brazil, Santiago, Chile, Louisville, Kentucky, Tbilisi, Georgia, and Tel Aviv, Israel.
The tour started in Seoul on 17th of June, 2023 and is going to end in Tel Aviv, Israel on the 7th of October, 2023.
This was good news to the fans of Bruno Mars because this concert was the first time he is having a world tour in South Korea in the last 9 years since 2014.
He has produced many popular songs since then including “Please Me”, “ Leave the door open”, “Smokin out the Window”, and “That’s what I like”, so it will be a point of note for Korean fans to enjoy his concert.
Korean fans are well-known for their culture in which the audiences sings a song along with the singer called Ddae-chang.
There are already videos on youtube to teach people how to ddae-chang the songs at Bruno Mars concert.
Before the concert started, there were a lot of fans in the line waiting for the security to enter the stadium.
After a long time of waiting, the security guards checked the waiting people so that there wouldn’t be any accidents at the concert.
Everybody had to go get their tickets checked by the security at first in front of each gate of the stadium and once the security checked the tickets, they handed Bruno Mars t-shirts and allowed them to enter the stadium.
As the concert was such a big event, there were lots of Korean celebrities such as RM, V, G-Dragon, Park Seo-Joon, indicating the international popularity of Bruno Mars.
When the concert started, the fans were fascinated and screaming.
Bruno Mars sang his hits making audiences go fanatical.
He began the concert with one of his most loved songs “24K Magic.” This song was enough to heat up the audience of the concert.
Also, he sang his other hits such as “Finesse,” “Treasure,” “That’s what I like,” and “Runaway Baby.”
When he was singing “Finesse,” he asked the audiences not to film him so they could focus on his music and feel the concert more vividly.
While he was singing one of his songs “Calling All My Lovelies,” he changed the lyrics into Korean saying “Bogoshipoyo my baby”.
Fans were so happy that Bruno Mars said Korean words and sang the songs along with him.
Once the concert ended, the fans went back to their home with an unforgettable memory of a lifetime.
- Paul Ryu / Grade 11
- Mill Creek High School