{"id":635566,"date":"2026-04-29T03:49:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T03:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/635566\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T03:49:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T03:49:12","slug":"bts-el-paso-special-awardthroughout-the-concert-bts-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/635566\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS, El Paso Special Award\u2026&#8221;Throughout the Concert, BTS Week&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n              <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/5acae532-bbe1-439e-8203-6bdfa6db4562.jpg\" class=\"post-image\"\/>\n            <\/p>\n<p>[Dispatch=Reporter Lee Myung-ju] BTS is creating significant economic ripple effects through their North American tour. Cities hosting the concerts have proclaimed &#8216;BTS Week.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>BTS opened their North American leg on April 25-26 and 28 at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida as part of their world tour &#8216;ARIRANG.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The next venue is Sunbowl Stadium in El Paso, Texas. The tour will take place on May 2-3. BTS is the first Korean group to perform at this location.<\/p>\n<p>The excitement extends beyond ARMY, the fanbase, to the entire city. El Paso County Commission awarded BTS the &#8216;Estimado Amigo&#8217; award on April 27 (Korean time).<\/p>\n<p>The award recognizes the group&#8217;s contribution to activating local tourism through this tour. The performance dates of May 2-3 have been designated as &#8216;El Paso BTS Weekend.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Bureau Chief Brook Underwood projected that &#8220;BTS&#8217;s concert will generate approximately $75 million (approximately 110.5 billion won) in economic impact.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The fandom&#8217;s activities were also highlighted. ARMY&#8217;s fundraising efforts to illuminate &#8216;Star on the Mountain&#8217; in purple was noted.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, BTS will continue their world tour across 34 cities with 85 shows total. This marks the largest scale for a single Korean artist tour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dp-image-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/4c4b459c-99ec-4f93-a722-8be254a524aa.jpg\" style=\"width:100%;\" class=\"post-image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>              Who Wins? You Decide on MURAPOP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[Dispatch=Reporter Lee Myung-ju] BTS is creating significant economic ripple effects through their North American tour. Cities hosting the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-635566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635566","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=635566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}