{"id":639503,"date":"2026-09-29T12:06:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T12:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/639503\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T12:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T12:06:15","slug":"taemin-postpones-north-american-tour-two-weeks-before-launch-over-us-visa-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/639503\/","title":{"rendered":"Taemin postpones North American tour two weeks before launch over US visa delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/344dd1c8-ef98-41ed-a44f-2c1573d2225a.jpg\" style=\"height: auto; aspect-ratio: 658 \/ 545; width: 100%; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto\" alt=\"Taemin \/ Courtesy of Galaxy Corporation\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Taemin \/ Courtesy of Galaxy Corporation<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">SHINee member Taemin has postponed the North American leg of his world tour due to issues involving U.S. visas and related administrative procedures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">A notice posted on Taemin&#8217;s official social media accounts Tuesday announced the postponement of the North American dates of his 2026-27 world tour, &#8220;LiMiNaL.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">According to the notice, Taemin&#8217;s team decided to postpone the scheduled concerts due to uncertainty surrounding U.S. visas and related administrative procedures affecting key tour and production personnel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">&#8220;A significant number of essential staff members required for the North American shows are still awaiting their visas, and there is no clear timeline for when they will be issued,&#8221; the notice said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The team said it determined that proceeding with the tour as scheduled would pose significant operational and production risks and instead plans to hold the North American concerts on a rescheduled itinerary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">New dates and venues are currently being arranged and will be announced at a later date. Refunds for the North American concerts are available through the original point of purchase.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Taemin previously held the Seoul leg of his &#8220;LiMiNaL&#8221; world tour from Sept. 18-20 at Jamsil Indoor Stadium in Songpa District, Seoul. He had been scheduled to begin a six-city North American tour at SAP Center in San Jose on Oct. 12.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">This article from the Hankook Ilbo, the sister publication of The Korea Times, was translated by a generative AI system and edited by The Korea Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taemin \/ Courtesy of Galaxy Corporation SHINee member Taemin has postponed the North American leg of his world&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-639503","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\/639503","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=639503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}