{"id":138208,"date":"2025-11-13T20:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T20:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/138208\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T20:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T20:36:08","slug":"btss-comeback-tour-is-just-what-k-pop-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/138208\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS\u2019s Comeback Tour Is Just What K-Pop Needs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The imminent return of super band BTS couldn\u2019t come at a better time. South Korea&#8217;s music scene is navigating a rough patch and has set its sights on international dominance. The group\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-10-26\/bts-plans-its-biggest-world-tour-ever-for-comeback-in-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">biggest tour ever<\/a> could be a major inflection point for the $9 billion industry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">With a new album due to drop in March, the decade\u2019s most commercially successful boy band <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-10-26\/bts-plans-its-biggest-world-tour-ever-for-comeback-in-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">is planning<\/a> to perform about 65 dates around the world, including nearly half in the growing North American market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The imminent return of super band BTS couldn\u2019t come at a better time. South Korea&#8217;s music scene is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[2102,114,31538,93,7319,9108,61,60,582,8874,278,23059,10046,541,11510],"class_list":["post-138208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-beijing","tag-china","tag-conservative","tag-entertainment","tag-exports","tag-goldman-sachs-group-inc","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-japan","tag-military","tag-music","tag-netflix-inc","tag-seoul","tag-south-korea","tag-view"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}