{"id":249394,"date":"2026-01-17T10:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T10:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/249394\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T10:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T10:31:09","slug":"bts-comeback-to-fuel-a-k-pop-concert-led-boom-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/249394\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS comeback to fuel a K-pop concert-led boom in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/5\/5.jpeg\" alt=\"20260116 BTS Reunion\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">BTS gave their final performance as a group in Busan, South Korea,\u00a0on Oct.\u00a015, 2022, before members entered required\u00a0military service. (Photo courtesy of BIGHIT\u00a0Music\/ Kyodo)<\/p>\n<p>KIM JAEWON<\/p>\n<p>January 17, 2026 09:10 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">SEOUL &#8212; South Korea&#8217;s K-pop industry is expected to enter a new growth phase this year, led by the long-awaited return of global sensation BTS, with the boy band announcing this week its seven members would reunite in April for a world tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BTS gave their final performance as a group in Busan, South Korea,\u00a0on Oct.\u00a015, 2022, before members entered required\u00a0military&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[23197,598,6432,123708,125060,93,9658,61,60,6521,278],"class_list":{"0":"post-249394","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-23197","9":"tag-boom","10":"tag-bts","11":"tag-comeback","12":"tag-concert-led","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-fuel","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-k-pop","18":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249394","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=249394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}