Coronavirus: BTS K-pop stars cancel their concerts in South Korea

Text by: Stéphane Lagarde Follow

The megastars of K-pop BTS announced this Friday, February 28, the cancellation of giant concerts planned for April in Seoul. South Korea has just registered nearly 600 new cases of coronavirus, much more in 24 hours than in China where the epidemic had appeared.

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From our correspondent in Beijing,

" The coronavirus forces us to hold this press conference [to launch the new album] in live streaming on Youtube ", apologized this Monday, February 24, the most famous of boy bands in South Korea. With the soaring curve of contamination cases in recent days , the show can no longer continue.

The seven BTS boys (for " Bangtan Sonyeondan ", " Boy Scout Resistant to the Balls ") are forced to cancel four dates scheduled at the Seoul Olympic Stadium in April. 200,000 spectators were expected for this start of the tour of the fourth album, " Map of the Soul: 7 ", pre-sold before its release on February 21 with more than 4 million copies.

Same thing for the Twice girls who were to perform in the same place on March 7 and 8. K-pop threatened by the coronavirus, the whole industry is now worried. Because beyond the Korean scenes, several groups have already had to cancel part of their concerts in China, as far as Mexico and the United States for the 13 singers, dancers and rappers of Seventeen . As for the members of the group NTC Dream which has just postponed its concert in Singapore, they will perform well this Sunday at the Jakarta Stadium, in front of spectators who will have had to agree to let their body temperature be taken at the entrance.

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