{"id":532878,"date":"2026-07-18T23:18:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T23:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/532878\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T23:18:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T23:18:21","slug":"macron-makes-appearance-at-bts-tour-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/532878\/","title":{"rendered":"Macron makes appearance at BTS tour in France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>       <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/news-p.v1.20260718.f375bed4ab10400d87970118987c977b_P1.jpg\" alt=\"A screen grab from French President Emmanuel Macron's Instagram account\"\/>     A screen grab from French President Emmanuel Macron&#8217;s Instagram account  <\/p>\n<p>French President Emmanuel Macron made an appearance at the Stade de France Friday local time to attend a BTS concert there.<\/p>\n<p>Macron was accompanied by his wife Brigitte Macron on the first day of the seven-member K-pop sensation&#8217;s France gig as part of its Arirang world tour. The French presidential couple&#8217;s appearance soon went viral on social media.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday Seoul time, Macron posted a 17-second clip of BTS performing one of its record-smashing hits &#8220;Dynamite&#8221; on his Instagram account. The post read, &#8220;Bienvenue a Paris !&#8221; or &#8220;Welcome to Paris&#8221; in English.<\/p>\n<p>In President Lee Jae Myung&#8217;s latest state visit to France in April, Lee gifted autographed CDs by South Korean pop stars including BTS to Brigitte Macron.<\/p>\n<p>consnow@heraldcorp.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A screen grab from French President Emmanuel Macron&#8217;s Instagram account French President Emmanuel Macron made an appearance at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-532878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}