{"id":409619,"date":"2026-08-18T08:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T08:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/409619\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T08:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T08:40:10","slug":"bts-jimins-kiss-on-cheek-of-young-cancer-patient-goes-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/409619\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS Jimin’s kiss on cheek of young cancer patient goes viral"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Jimin Jimin gives a key chain and a kiss on the cheek to a young cancer patient during a concert in Arlington, Texas, Saturday. (Instagram @heroesforchildren) <\/p>\n

A brief encounter between Jimin of BTS and a young fan undergoing pediatric cancer treatment at the group\u2019s latest concert has drawn widespread attention online.<\/p>\n

BTS was performing at the Arlington, Texas, stop of the group\u2019s \u201cArirang\u201d world tour Saturday. In the audience were children supported by Heroes for Children, a Texas nonprofit that provides assistance to the families of children battling cancer.<\/p>\n

In videos circulating online, Jimin stepped offstage and approached a young fan identified as Olivya. He handed her a key chain, gently patted her head, then hugged her and kissed her on the cheek.<\/p>\n

Visibly stunned, Olivya repeatedly exclaimed, \u201cI got a kiss,\u201d before turning to footage she had recorded of the encounter.<\/p>\n

“Still not over this moment. Thank you BTS for giving our girl Olivya the sweetest hug at last night’s concert in Arlington! A core memory she’ll never forget,” the organization wrote in a social media post Monday.<\/p>\n

Videos that captured the moment quickly proliferated online, with fans around the world praising Jimin’s interaction with Olivya, while many also left messages wishing her a full recovery.<\/p>\n

BTS’ North American leg of its “Arirang” tour is set to continue with stops including Toronto, Chicago and Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

shwang9@heraldcorp.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jimin gives a key chain and a kiss on the cheek to a young cancer patient during a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":["post-409619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}