BTS's Jin's Astronaut turns 4: Why the song was a wound, a bandage and a homecoming

“BTS's Jin's Astronaut turns 4: Why the song was a wound, a bandage and a homecoming”

In October 2022, and it was Busan. BTS was performing their old favourites and the new ones. The best was yet to come, they said. The atmosphere was ringing with fan chants, laughter, inside jokes and yet, somehow, unshed tears. ARMY feeds caught the smiles beneath the bursts of confetti and the promises, repeated a little too often, to return soon. Something was being said without being said, and no one could quite put it into words. Barely two days later, the band announced they would be…