K-Pop Superstars BTS Honor Oldboy’s Iconic Hallway Fight Scene in New Music Video

Korean lad set BTS has released the euphony video for their caller opus 2.0, and it pays homage to 1 of cinema’s astir memorable enactment scenes: Oldboy’s iconic hallway fight.

The planetary K-Pop superstars made their comeback successful March with a immense performance successful the centre of Seoul that was streamed connected Netflix to observe the merchandise of their latest album, Arirang.

2.0 is the 2nd opus to person its ain MV aft pb azygous Swim, and features each 7 members of the radical arriving successful an elevator to beryllium greeted by respective angry-looking men holding weapons successful a wide homage to the modern Korean classic, Oldboy.

THIS IS THE HOTTEST INTRO TO A SONG IN A MUSIC VIDEO EVER. pic.twitter.com/nkVTDlXwzu

Park Chan-wook’s masterpiece features a now-synonymous combat country wherever its pb character, portrayed by Choi Min-sik, takes connected dozens of goons successful a thrilling one-shot, tracking sideways on the hallway with him. In the BTS video, the radical tin beryllium seen dancing arsenic the camera moves successful a akin mode arsenic they’re flanked by attackers.

Oldboy is mostly credited with sparking involvement successful the West successful Korean cinema, with its 2003 merchandise coming astatine a akin clip to different breakout hits specified arsenic Bong Joon Ho’s Memories of Murder and The Host.

BTS tin assertion to person a akin interaction erstwhile it comes to K-pop. While not arriving successful the archetypal question to travel to popularity, they person achieved planetary occurrence similar nary different Korean popular stars, speech from possibly Blackpink.

Their caller album, Arirang, takes its sanction from a accepted Korean people song, successful a solemnisation of the country’s culture, truthful it makes consciousness that the radical would further grant their nation’s taste practice by paying homage to 1 of its astir celebrated films.

For much connected Park Chan-wook, you tin cheque his breakdown of the precise country being honored successful the BTS euphony video, oregon his picks for his favourite shots from immoderate of his astir iconic movies, specified arsenic Oldboy, The Handmaiden, and No Other Choice.

Simon Cardy is simply a Senior Editor astatine IGN who tin chiefly beryllium recovered skulking astir unfastened satellite games, indulging successful Korean cinema, oregon despairing astatine the authorities of Tottenham Hotspur and the New York Jets. Follow him connected Bluesky astatine @cardy.bsky.social.