SEOUL \u2013 BTS member V said after the K-pop group performed in the United States on Aug 11 that he has been receiving treatment for hearing difficulties for more than two years.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve never told ARMY this before, but my hearing hasn\u2019t been good for the past 2\u00bd years,\u201d V said, referring to BTS\u2019 fan base by its official name.<\/p>\n
The 30-year-old South Korean singer, whose real name is Kim Tae-hyung, made the disclosure during a live stream on the fan platform Weverse with bandmate Jungkook as the two shared a meal after the concert in Baltimore.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf the hearing in my left ear is at 100, it\u2019s only about 30 in my right,\u201d V said. \u201cSo I\u2019ve been taking medication regularly and seeing doctors for treatment.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jungkook, 28, also disclosed a shin injury that has restricted his movement during the boy band\u2019s North American tour.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m on the verge of developing a stress fracture in my shin,\u201d he said, explaining that the pain had kept him from performing at full intensity.<\/p>\n
\u201cI really wanted to run around onstage today, but there were moments when it hurt too much for me to do so,\u201d he added. \u201cI hope the fans understand.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jungkook said he did not have a stress fracture, but that his shin was badly inflamed and the bone may have sustained minor damage.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll manage the injury as carefully as I can so that I can keep performing,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ll run when I absolutely need to, but at other times I\u2019ll have to force myself to hold back if I\u2019m going to make it through this tour.\u201d<\/p>\n
BTS are on the North American leg of their new Arirang World Tour. They are scheduled to perform at AT&T Stadium in Arlington in the US on Aug 15 and 16, followed by concerts at Rogers Stadium in Toronto, Canada, on Aug 22 and 23.<\/p>\n
The North American leg follows a series of European concerts in cities including London, Paris and Munich. THE KOREA HERALD\/ASIA NEWS NETWORK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEOUL \u2013 BTS member V said after the K-pop group performed in the United States on Aug 11…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-591665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591665","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=591665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}