[Notice] BTS Fan Club Etiquette Notice (2020.01.23)

Hello, this is your BTS Fan Club manager.

We would like to sincerely thank all of our ARMY for your love and support for BTS.

We would like to provide a review of BTS Fan Club etiquette rules to ensure that we can create a sound fan culture and protect the rights of our artists. Please make careful note of the rules below.

Fan Club Etiquette Rules

1. Please do not visit set or locations closed to the public or private spaces.

- Do not visit sets, locations or activities that are not listed as official on the Big Hit Entertainment schedule page or via Weverse announcement. Do not visit private spaces such as company offices, practice rooms, living spaces or nearby areas, and any other locations that BTS has visited or are related to them.

- Do not visit airports or board the same flight as the artists during any part of their domestic or international activities including tours and personal traveling by using information acquired improperly.

Do not send or leave gifts or letters at the artists’ private locations (living space, family home, etc.).

2. Please do not stalk the artists.

- Do not carry out or repeatedly attempt to contact, visit, follow, talk to or make physical contact with the artists.

- Do not attempt the above actions towards the family members, friends and acquaintances of the artists.

- Do not attempt to access the waiting room of the artist or try to approach them by illegally copying, producing or acquiring passes at concert venues or other similar access-controlled locations.

3. Please do not sell or purchase the artists’ personal information.

- Do not transact or attempt to transact the artists’ personal information such as resident registration number, phone number, address, ID, etc.

- Do not transact or attempt to transact flight information such as flight number or seat number.

4. Please do not take photographs or record video or audio except where permitted.

- Do not covertly photograph or record video or audio of the artists in closed sets or locations, or in their private spaces.

- Do not photograph or take video or audio, or broadcast (live stream) video or audio where such activities are prohibited.

- Do not violate rules prohibiting the possession of any devices capable of recording video or audio into concert or other venues (except mobile phones), or use mobile phones for the purpose of recording video or audio.

- Do not engage in video or audio recording activities that violate copyrights.

- * Areas where recording is not permitted: inside airports (ticket counter, security checkpoint, lounge, duty-free stores, boarding gate, security area, baggage claim area), inside network broadcast studios, and performances and any venues where recording video or audio is prohibited.

* If violations are discovered, you may be asked to delete any video or audio recordings, and will be escorted out of the venue.

* We hold no responsibility for any devices damaged while you are being escorted out.

* If violations are discovered during open music show recordings, the network may sanction the entire ARMY fan body.

5. Please do not interfere with artist-related activities.

- Do not interfere with the duties of artist management staff, security personnel in Korea and abroad or any other persons carrying out artists-related activities, or refuse to comply with their requests for cooperation.

- Do not block the artists from entering their vehicles or prevent the vehicles from moving normally.

- Do not engage in a vehicle chase with the artists’ vehicles.

6. Please do not engage in other inappropriate actions.

- Do not assume a false identity to engage in fan activities (transferring ID cards, using an unlawfully-acquired ID, using another person’s ID or documents or forging such documents).

- Do not limit the opportunities of other members from attending events by applying for then failing to show up for a Fan Club seat for a music show broadcast or failing to bring the necessary identity verification materials to such an event.

- Do not engage in actions that physically or mentally threaten the artists.

- Do not force a gift on the artist except handwritten letters. (Please refer to the separate notice on fan letters).

- Do not engage in other improper and inappropriate actions unbefitting of a fan or that which may be seen in a negative light by the fandom.

For Violations of Fan Club Rules

1. If any violations of the Fan Club etiquette rules are discovered, you may be restricted or prohibited from receiving the benefits of the official BTS GLOBAL OFFICIAL FANCLUB (ARMY Membership) without prior warning.

2. Entrance to an official BTS activity (performance, music shows, fan signing events, etc) may be restricted or prohibited without prior notice.

3. If any actions that do not comply with the etiquette rules above are found to be unlawful, evidence may be collected and violators may be subject to civil and criminal penalties.

We will continue to strive to create a sound fan culture and protect the rights of our artists.

Thank you ARMY for your continued support and cooperation.

Thank you.