{"id":683696,"date":"2026-07-10T05:28:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T05:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/683696\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T05:28:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T05:28:15","slug":"k-pop-stars-bts-and-british-museum-band-together-for-art-trail-the-art-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/683696\/","title":{"rendered":"K-pop stars BTS and British Museum band together for art trail – The Art Newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWhat do the latest album from global music sensation BTS and the British Museum’s Korea gallery have in common? Rather a lot as it turns out!\u201d\u2014so says the British Museum website<\/a>. The London institution has teamed up with the mega-popular K-pop band as part of a citywide experience<\/a> supporting the BTS world tour, entitled Arirang, which hit the UK capital last week. <\/p>\n

In a canny marketing move, the British Museum has created a trail around its Korea Foundation Gallery<\/a> highlighting five key objects selected by the curator Sang-ah Kim that link to Arirang\u2014a Korean folk song symbolising national values and traditions. Pieces featured include a white porcelain moon jar and items from the Silla Kingdom (fascinating fact for BTS fans: one of the tracks on Arirang, No. 29, is the sound of the Bell of King Seongdeok which was made during the Silla era founded in 57BC). <\/p>\n

The BTS BM tour is also a clever curtain raiser for a major show opening later this year at the London museum, Korea<\/a>\u00a0(1 October-31 January 2027), which presents sculpture, painting and decorative arts pieces from the past 2,000 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWhat do the latest album from global music sensation BTS and the British Museum’s Korea gallery have in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":683697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[83074,5675,96,10993,128,11998,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-683696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-british-museum","tag-diary","tag-entertainment","tag-exhibitions","tag-music","tag-south-korea","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683696","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=683696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/683697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}