{"id":142712,"date":"2025-05-24T15:30:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T22:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=142712"},"modified":"2025-05-24T15:30:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T22:30:15","slug":"bts-missed-a-qatar-stage-because-of-jungkooks-service-heres-the-real-tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/bts-missed-a-qatar-stage-because-of-jungkooks-service-heres-the-real-tea\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS missed a Qatar stage because of Jungkook\u2019s service? Here\u2019s the real tea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BTS<\/strong> has been on pause for nearly three years thanks to <strong>South Korea<\/strong>\u2019s mandatory military enlistment. Jin and J-Hope are already out, and the rest of the crew is weeks away from reuniting. But on May 23, ARMY\u2019s excitement was momentarily popped when <strong>Qatar<\/strong> revealed it almost hosted BTS\u2014but couldn\u2019t, because Jungkook was still serving. Talk about a missed opportunity!<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dailyjkpraise\/status\/1925495857836957725\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Qatar Tourism Authority Chairman, Saad Bin Ali Alkarji saidan mentioned in an interview with the press on Qatar Economic Forum ( QEF ) held in Doha, &quot;We tried to invite BTS for a concert in Qatar, but it didn&#39;t happen because the main vocalist was serving in the military.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ey0PJEb3zz\">pic.twitter.com\/ey0PJEb3zz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Daily JK Praise \uea00 (@_dailyjkpraise_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_dailyjkpraise_\/status\/1925495857836957725?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 22, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>At the 5th Qatar Economic Forum, Tourism Authority Chairman <strong>Saad bin Ali Al Kharji<\/strong> confirmed they had big plans for a BTS performance in Doha. But when they reached out to the group, their main vocalist was already on duty. Fans immediately lit up social media, grieving the missed occasion, especially since this is Jungkook\u2019s second major global gig missed due to service. Reportedly, he also declined the 2024 Super Bowl halftime show with Usher.<\/p>\n<p>Despite what some fans call a \u201cmissed chance,\u201d the BTS boys will soon be back. And the best part? Qatar might just be ready to hit that invite button again. Now that the wait is almost over with the members being <strong>discharged<\/strong> (RM and V are out June 10, Jungkook and Jimin follow on June 11 and SUGA will be ready by June 21), the reunion clock just started ticking. And guess what? ARMY is ready.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BTS has been on pause for nearly three years thanks to South Korea\u2019s mandatory military enlistment. Jin and J-Hope are already out, and the rest of the crew is weeks away from reuniting. But on May 23, ARMY\u2019s excitement was momentarily popped when Qatar revealed it almost hosted BTS\u2014but couldn\u2019t, because Jungkook was still serving. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":142713,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,16],"tags":[49],"class_list":{"0":"post-142712","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-kpop","9":"tag-bts"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}