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BTS cancel Seoul concerts as coronavirus spreads in South Korea

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Agence France-Presse

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2020/reuters/02/26/20200127-bts.jpg"/><figcaption>South Korean band BTS performs with Lil&#x27; Nas X at the 62nd Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California. <em>Mario Anzuoni, Reuters</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>SEOUL - K-pop megastars BTS on Friday canceled four concerts they were due to hold in Seoul in April, their agency said, as the coronavirus outbreak spreads in South Korea.</p><p>The country has so far confirmed more than 2,000 cases of the novel coronavirus, by far the largest national total outside China, the origin of the disease.</p><p>&quot;We regret to announce&quot; that the Seoul concerts have been cancelled, BTS agency Big Hit Entertainment said in a statement.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/02/26/20/how-bts-shot-a-top-secret-video-in-grand-central-terminal">How BTS shot a ‘top secret’ video in Grand Central Terminal</a></li></ul><p>The four concerts, scheduled to take place between April 11 and 19 at Seoul&#x27;s Olympic Stadium, home to the 1988 Games, were expected to draw &quot;over 200,000&quot; BTS fans.</p><p>It was &quot;impossible at this time to predict the scale of the outbreak&quot;, it said, creating uncertainty over the movement of staff, equipment and fans, making the cancellation &quot;unavoidable&quot;, it said.</p><p>The move came after the boy band held a press conference to promote their new album in an empty hall on Monday because of the virus.</p><p>BTS -- or Bangtan Sonyeondan, which translates as Bulletproof Boy Scouts -- are the first K-pop group to top charts in the United States and Britain.</p><p>Their latest album &quot;Map of the Soul: 7&quot;, released last week, was the most pre-ordered South Korean album of all time, with more than four million copies sold before its release.</p><div><strong>kjk/slb/qan</strong></div><div><strong>© Agence France-Presse</strong></div>

<p>SEOUL - K-pop megastars BTS on Friday canceled four concerts they were due to hold in Seoul in April, their agency said, as the coronavirus outbreak spreads in South Korea.</p>

SEOUL - K-pop megastars BTS on Friday canceled four concerts they were due to hold in Seoul in April, their agency said, as the coronavirus outbreak spreads in South Korea.