The Arc de Triomphe was ordered to be built by Napoleon to record his many victories.
However by the technology of the day it was not easy to complete the huge structure, and although in 1811 an architect named Huyot was put in charge of the structure, Napoleon's fortune began to reverse, and so the structure was mostly unbuilt as the Allies stormed Paris in 1814.
What happened to it during the Restoration is not clear since no one documented it, but King Louis Phillippe I, who was put to the throne by a bunch of factions who didn't like the Ancien Regime (this time it died for good as its last heir, Henri the Count of Chambord, would die without a successor) including Bonapartists, so Louis Phillippe decided to finish the structure.
He called up Huyot, who had retired by then, to finish the structure and it was completed in 1836, and Napoleon's coffin passed through it in 1840, but France didn't have major victories outside of the country to have a victory procession through it.
And, in 1871, the Germans took Paris and had the first Victory Procession through the structure. Napoleon's monument was used first by the Germans. (The French did have their own victory celebrations after both World Wars, but since everyone knew the Americans bailed it out in both cases, they were not exactly joyous events.)
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If BTS had jumped the draft and continued to be active in the overseas, never returning to Korea, it would have been coldplay who would have performed at BTS' concert, not the other way around.
Seokjin, whose refusal to leave the group to buy more time for the younger members to avoid the draft, actually performed in front of Coldplay. I was very ticked off by that.
Assuming Seokjin and possibly Yoongi out and the 5 member BTS still performing around the world, we would not have heard too much about Taylor Swift as BTS would have outdone her, and Coldplay would be the #3 concert artist of the world.
With BTS continuing to be the #1 act of the world it would have been Coldplay who would have to come to BTS' venue, not the other way around.
Seokjin and maybe Yoongi should have left the group so the other members could have their concerts and teach Taylor Swift, Coldplay, Morgan Wallen, etc a lesson. With KPop still dominant in the world Coldplay would not be the hosts but guests, and no one would have objected after Seokjin and Yoongi returned after their services were over.
Korean opinion does not mean anything. Bibi ended IU's influence in KPop in early 2024, and people like Lim Youngwoong are leagues onto their own and do not really matter. The current iteration of Fifty Fifty, despite of the supposed support of Koreans, remains a nugu act.
Coldplay entered Korea as an occupying force and all these singers, some of them not even Koreans like Roseanne Park, MBE, go to them to curry favor to. It is like the Germans marching to the Arc de Triomphe for the first time in 1871.
