{"id":166112,"date":"2026-05-06T14:45:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T21:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=166112"},"modified":"2026-05-06T14:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T21:45:11","slug":"bts-visits-mexicos-national-palace-before-mexico-city-concerts-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/bts-visits-mexicos-national-palace-before-mexico-city-concerts-in-may\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS visits Mexico\u2019s National Palace before Mexico City concerts in May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President <strong>Claudia Sheinbaum<\/strong> announced that <strong>BTS<\/strong> will visit <strong>Mexico\u2019s National Palace<\/strong> on May 6, 2026, before the 7-member team begins their concerts in Mexico City. The head of state confirmed the visit during her morning press conference and said the meeting is scheduled for 5 p.m. local time. Sheinbaum described the event as something special for young people and praised the group for sharing messages of friendship, peace, humanity, and love through their songs.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BTS will visit Palacio Nacional and meet Mexico\u2019s President today at 8 am kst and a palace balcony will be opened for them to greet fans <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LeDBi2zBMa\">pic.twitter.com\/LeDBi2zBMa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; kat (@kookyun) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kookyun\/status\/2052064888579883276?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 6, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>\u201cThis is for the youth \u2014 today, the group BTS is coming here to the National Palace,\u201d the Mexican president announced. They have something very beautiful: What they sing always conveys messages of friendship, of peace \u2014 very humanistic messages \u2014 and of love.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p>Because of the strong excitement around BTS\u2019 return to Mexico, Sheinbaum revealed that a National Palace balcony will be opened so that the members can greet their fans. The palace faces the Z\u00f3calo, one of the most famous public spaces in Mexico City. Meanwhile, RM, Jin, SUGA, j-hope, Jimin, V, and Jungkook are expected to appear there before their shows at GNP Seguros Stadium on May 7, 2026, May 9, 2026, and May 10, 2026.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">A todas y todos los Armys de <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BTSM%C3%A9xico?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#BTSM\u00e9xico<\/a> hoy a las 17 h la banda estar\u00e1 saludando a sus fans desde un balc\u00f3n con vista al Z\u00f3calo.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a1Te esperamos!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ARIRANGTour?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#ARIRANGTour<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BTS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#BTS<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ccurieldeicaza?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@ccurieldeicaza<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/btsmexico_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@btsmexico_<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/armysyoungfever?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@armysyoungfever<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/force31697?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@force31697<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jinspacelatam?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@jinspacelatam<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thvstreamMx?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@thvstreamMx<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ugeMn2lxoq\">pic.twitter.com\/ugeMn2lxoq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Secretar\u00eda de Cultura (@cultura_mx) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cultura_mx\/status\/2052098427408789835?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 6, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The BTS Mexico concerts sold out quickly,\u00a0 with more than 136,000 tickets purchased. Demand was so high that Sheinbaum asked South Korea\u2019s President Lee Jae Myung for help in arranging more BTS shows in Mexico. On January 26, 2026, she said South Korea had later forwarded the request to HYBE, the agency that represents BTS. The boy group\u2019s return is expected to bring a major economic impact to Mexico City, with the National Chamber of Commerce, Services and Tourism of Mexico City predicting a revenue of over $107.5 million USD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Claudia Sheinbaum announced that BTS will visit Mexico\u2019s National Palace on May 6, 2026, before the 7-member team begins their concerts in Mexico City. The head of state confirmed the visit during her morning press conference and said the meeting is scheduled for 5 p.m. local time. Sheinbaum described the event as something special [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":166114,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,16,7],"tags":[49],"tmauthors":[3734],"class_list":{"0":"post-166112","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-kpop","9":"category-news","10":"tag-bts"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166112","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=166112"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166117,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166112\/revisions\/166117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166112"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=166112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}