BTS Gwanghwamun Performance Watched 18.4 Million Through Netflix [Star Issue]

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"BTS Comeback Live: ARIRANG," which Netflix broadcast live on the 21st, showed that 18.4 million viewers around the world enjoyed BTS's comeback stage through Netflix on the day of the live.

"BTS Comeback Live: ARIRANG" demonstrated its global interest in BTS and K-pop, remarkably reaching the top 10 weekly rankings in 80 countries and the top of the weekly rankings in 24 countries.

The live event will be broadcast live around the world and bring global viewers together. Netflix has made efforts to help global viewers enjoy BTS's comeback performance in the best environment by utilizing technologies optimized for live environments such as load balancing, multi-encoder automatic switching, and live-only encoding pipelines as well as its own content transmission network, Open Connect.

The live performance of BTS, which colored Gwanghwamun with purple waves, showed an unprecedented scale not only in terms of technology but also in terms of production and operation. In order to realize the balance of harmony between tradition and modernity, scale and intimacy, staff from 10 countries participated and collaborated in eight different languages, and a filming infrastructure was established that mobilized a total of 23 cameras, 124 broadcast monitors, and 164.5 tons of broadcast equipment. About 9.5 km of power cables were installed at the performance site, and 9,660 kVA of power was supplied. It also focused on large-scale live production and transmission capabilities, with 40 terabytes of server capacity and 108 terabytes of photographic data processed.

A Netflix official said, "Netflix has been sharing the global spread of Korean culture through K-dramas and K-movies. This performance is an example of expanding its role to K-pop along with BTS, and we will continue our efforts to promote Korean content to the world through various formats and genres of content."

"BTS Comeback Live: ARIRANG" is a richly colored Dolby Vision and Dolby ATMOS, which provides on-the-spot sound. In addition, newly renovated subtitles are provided in more than 34 languages after live broadcasting.

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