{"id":165754,"date":"2025-09-24T08:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T08:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/165754\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T08:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T08:59:10","slug":"k-pop-star-kang-daniel-shrugs-off-us-tour-robbery-tells-fans-lets-still-have-a-fun-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/165754\/","title":{"rendered":"K-pop star Kang Daniel shrugs off US tour robbery, tells fans \u2018let\u2019s still have a fun\u00a0show\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SEOUL, Sept 24 \u2014 K-pop star Kang Daniel is pressing ahead with his North American tour despite a string of misfortunes \u2014 including the theft of key concert gear \u2014 that has fans rallying behind him.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old singer revealed via social media on September 23 that a staff vehicle was broken into while his team was travelling from Los Angeles to San Jose, resulting in the loss of stage costumes, hair and makeup equipment and official merchandise.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His agency Aira told South Korea-based news site\u00a0Chosun Biz that the incident took place September 20, shortly after his Los Angeles stop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe got all our stuff stolen \u2014 outfits, hair and makeup tools, even MD goods,\u201d the former WANNAONE member posted on social media, adding a photo with a thumbs-up and the caption.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut let\u2019s still have a fun\u00a0show lol\u00a0I\u2019m okay.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/300677.jpg\" alt=\"A screenshot of Kang Daniel\u2019s Instagram Stories update for fans.\" title=\"A screenshot of Kang Daniel\u2019s Instagram Stories update for fans.\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none';\" style=\"width:100%\"\/>        <\/p>\n<p>A screenshot of Kang Daniel\u2019s Instagram Stories update for fans.<\/p>\n<p>His agency also said that staff members scrambled to nearby malls to replace the missing items so the San Jose performance could proceed without disruption on September 22.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This comes after a New Jersey date scheduled for September 6 was cancelled just two hours before showtime due to what Kang\u2019s agency cited as \u201cinsufficient local system preparation and operational problems.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kang, who was already at the venue, personally addressed the audience to apologise.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The agency promised full refunds, saying that moving forward with an incomplete setup \u201ccould be a greater insult to fans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite the rough start, supporters have flooded social media with encouraging messages such as \u201cthis counts as warding off bad luck\u201d and \u201conly good things will come from now on.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kang\u2019s 12-city North American trek, which began September 3, continues with stops in Washington, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles before heading to South America for shows in Argentina and Brazil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEOUL, Sept 24 \u2014 K-pop star Kang Daniel is pressing ahead with his North American tour despite a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,85632,85634,341,85636,85637,85633,85635],"class_list":["post-165754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-kang-daniel-north-american-tour","tag-los-angeles-to-san-jose","tag-music","tag-new-jersey-concert-cancellation","tag-san-jose-performance","tag-theft-of-concert-gear","tag-wannaone-member"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}