{"id":651999,"date":"2026-06-22T10:27:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T10:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/651999\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T10:27:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T10:27:24","slug":"how-k-pop-loneliness-gave-rise-to-bangkoks-outdoor-aerobics-classes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/651999\/","title":{"rendered":"How K-pop, loneliness gave rise to Bangkok&#8217;s outdoor aerobics classes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/life-arts\/life\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Life<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Hundreds come out each day in the Thai capital to feel fit and a sense of community<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/9\/0.jpeg\" alt=\"20260616N Bangkok Dance Night 2\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Two one-hour aerobics sessions\u00a0are offered on weekdays, with one catering to beginners and the other to advanced participants.\u00a0(Photo by Ken Kobayashi)<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">BANGKOK &#8212; Large outdoor aerobics has grown into a social phenomenon in Thailand, with the surge in participants fueled by the loneliness epidemic, especially among young people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Life Hundreds come out each day in the Thai capital to feel fit and a sense of community&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[219292,219291,59597,6647,219290,102,1849,6704,21861,75911,12716,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-651999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-aerobics","tag-bangkoks","tag-classes","tag-fitness","tag-gave","tag-health","tag-how","tag-k-pop","tag-loneliness","tag-outdoor","tag-rise","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}