{"id":1079636,"date":"2026-07-10T02:12:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T02:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1079636\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T02:12:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T02:12:35","slug":"k-pop-stars-bts-and-british-museum-band-together-for-art-trail-the-art-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1079636\/","title":{"rendered":"K-pop stars BTS and British Museum band together for art trail – The Art Newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWhat do the latest album from global music sensation BTS and the British Museum’s Korea gallery have in common? Rather a lot as it turns out!\u201d\u2014so says the British Museum website<\/a>. The London institution has teamed up with the mega-popular K-pop band as part of a citywide experience<\/a> supporting the BTS world tour, entitled Arirang, which hit the UK capital last week. <\/p>\n

In a canny marketing move, the British Museum has created a trail around its Korea Foundation Gallery<\/a> highlighting five key objects selected by the curator Sang-ah Kim that link to Arirang\u2014a Korean folk song symbolising national values and traditions. Pieces featured include a white porcelain moon jar and items from the Silla Kingdom (fascinating fact for BTS fans: one of the tracks on Arirang, No. 29, is the sound of the Bell of King Seongdeok which was made during the Silla era founded in 57BC). <\/p>\n

The BTS BM tour is also a clever curtain raiser for a major show opening later this year at the London museum, Korea<\/a>\u00a0(1 October-31 January 2027), which presents sculpture, painting and decorative arts pieces from the past 2,000 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWhat do the latest album from global music sensation BTS and the British Museum’s Korea gallery have in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1079637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,18097,7792,393,4845,4884,257,525,16,15],"class_list":["post-1079636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london","tag-britain","tag-british-museum","tag-diary","tag-england","tag-exhibitions","tag-great-britain","tag-london","tag-south-korea","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116893263396284254","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1079636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1079637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1079636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1079636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1079636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}