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BTS Reveal New ‘The Return’ Doc Trailer: ‘Where We’re Meant to Be’

The upcoming doc will follow the band as they make their fifth studio album, Arirang

BTS Reveal New ‘The Return’ Doc Trailer: ‘Where We’re Meant to Be’

BTS perform at the Grammys on April 3, 2022 in Las Vegas, NV.

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BTS have unveiled the trailer for BTS: The Return, which chronicles the making of their highly anticipated pop comeback, Arirang.

The album, arriving March 20, is their first LP since every member completed mandatory military service in South Korea. The behind-the-scenes documentary will debut on March 27 on Netflix. In the new preview dropped on Monday, all seven members — RM, Jin, Jimin, V, Suga, J-Hope and Jung Kook — are captured reflecting on their time apart. As clips of the group performing onstage in front of thousands of fans flash across the screen, one member says in a voiceover, “We are finally back where we’re meant to be.”


The clip also shows the group in Los Angeles, where they reunited to create their first album in more than five years. “In the military, time just passed by, but here in L.A., you really feel the impermanence of time. And we’re trying to find out what makes us BTS,” says RM while passing through the city.

Once the last member finished service, all seven members relocated to Los Angeles in mid-2025 and shared a house for two months. It was the first time they had all been in the same place since 2015. Mornings were dedicated to physical training and after lunch at home, they’d head to the studio and write and record with rotating teams of collaborators until the evening. RM discussed the rigid schedule with GQ: “We’d do six days a week, like businessmen.” RM said it felt like being trainees again, except this time they had years of stadium tours and billions of streams behind them.

A press release touts the upcoming doc as a “portrait of resilience, brotherhood, and reinvention” that will see the group battling with “how to begin again, how to honor the past without being bound by it, and how to move forward together.”

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