{"id":685695,"date":"2026-07-11T08:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T08:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/685695\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T08:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T08:07:08","slug":"bts-concerts-boost-korean-culture-and-business-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/685695\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS concerts boost Korean culture and business in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Friends Viviana Galindo and Nhan Tu, who had travelled from the US, had deliberately turned the concerts into a longer holiday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Having not visited London for more than 20 years, the pair planned to spend the week exploring exhibitions, restaurants and other events across the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We decided to make a whole big trip out of it,&#8221; Tu said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The two friends had attended previous &#8220;BTS The City&#8221; programmes and said they enjoyed having more opportunities to meet other fans outside the stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s always fun to have other activities to do with other &#8216;Armys&#8217;,&#8221; Tu said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It makes me feel more like a global citizen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You realise how many people, from so many different backgrounds, are brought together by the same thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friends Viviana Galindo and Nhan Tu, who had travelled from the US, had deliberately turned the concerts into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-685695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685695","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=685695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}