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BTS brings K-pop energy to LA in last leg of tour

July 27, 2015
BTS performs "The Red Bullet III" inside Club Nokia in Los Angeles Sunday. (Angelina Widener/Korea Times)

BTS performs “The Red Bullet III” inside Club Nokia in Los Angeles Sunday. (Angelina Widener/Korea Times)

By Tae Hong

Fans lined up outside Club Nokia Sunday to see K-pop boy band BTS live for the last leg of their U.S. tour. (Angelina Widener/Korea Times)

Fans lined up outside Club Nokia Sunday to see K-pop boy band BTS live for the last leg of their U.S. tour. (Angelina Widener/Korea Times)

A sold-out “The Red Bullet III” concert starring BTS, the red-hot K-pop act of the moment, seemed to begin even before the doors opened, with hundreds of fans chanting, “BTS! BTS! BTS!” outside Club Nokia in Los Angeles Sunday.

Fans crowded into the 2,300-seat venue clad in BTS shirts, some holding signs, and nearly brought down the house with cheers as the seven boys entered the stage in military outfits.

Sets for the two-and-a-half-hour concert were a showcase of energy and of why the group has seen such a fast rise in the oversaturated South Korean music market.

Through jumpers like the hyper-choreographed “Danger” and “Boy in Luv” to intense head-bouncer “Cypher Pt. 3: KILLER,” BTS had fans on their feet, but the group’s softer side came out, too, in a cooing ”Just One Day” and the crowd-pleasing “Miss Right.”

Their latest hit “Dope” and “Fun Boys” concluded a four-city U.S. tour that saw the band traveling through New York, Dallas and Chicago before landing in the City of Angels.