Raymond James Stadium on April 25, 26 and 28<\/a>. Saturday\u2019s show kicks off the group\u2019s first North America stop for their Arirang World Tour.<\/p>\n\u201cIt really is an incredible opportunity for the entire Tampa Bay region, and we\u2019re excited about that,\u201d Castor said Thursday. \u201cWe\u2019ve seen several other acts that have sort of looked at Tampa as their Florida stop, and they\u2019ve set up here … for an extended period of time, as opposed to tearing down and moving from city to city. We would certainly endorse other acts to do the same. That\u2019s what Taylor Swift did.\u201d<\/p>\n
Castor\u2019s cousin\u2019s daughter, who lives in Korea, will travel to Tampa to see BTS next weekend. But the mayor herself regrettably won\u2019t be at any of the local shows.<\/p>\n
\u201cI certainly wish I was,\u201d she said. \u201cBut I am headed to Madrid, Spain. Actually, I was out of town, I think in London, for Taylor Swift.\u201d<\/p>\n
While Castor described herself as more of \u201ca yacht rock girl,\u201d she has enjoyed watching videos of BTS online and reading about their reunion after each member completed mandatory military service in South Korea.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re phenomenal,\u201d Castor said. \u201cJust the choreography and the staging and the entire presentation is pretty amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands of K-pop fans will descend upon Tampa starting next weekend for three BTS concerts. The city is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[104822,58778,5756,104448,11708,135,8894,137,136],"class_list":["post-235009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-arirang-world-tour","tag-bts","tag-jane-castor","tag-purple-lights","tag-raymond-james-stadium","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-region","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}