{"id":19380,"date":"2022-01-16T13:55:01","date_gmt":"2022-01-16T21:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=19380"},"modified":"2023-01-15T23:54:04","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T07:54:04","slug":"disappearances-of-fans-reported-after-the-canceled-concert-of-stray-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/disappearances-of-fans-reported-after-the-canceled-concert-of-stray-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Disappearances of fans reported after the canceled concert of Stray Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Stray Kids<\/strong> concerts in <strong>Saudi Arabia<\/strong> were highly anticipated by fans attending the <strong>Riyadh Seasons<\/strong> festival; however, they were canceled just hours after they started, on the night of January 14 (AST).<\/p>\n<p>The event is a multi-week entertainment <strong>festival<\/strong> in Saudi Arabia that includes different types of art. It started in 2019 and had <strong>BTS<\/strong> as its first k-pop guest. The following year it postponed its edition due to <strong>COVID-19<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, the cultural event made a strong <strong>comeback<\/strong> and announced Stray Kids and <strong>Chungha<\/strong> as part of its 2022 concert <strong>lineup<\/strong>. Those events were scheduled for this January 14 (AST).<br \/>C<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>However, hours before the performance began, and with thousands of fans from all over the world waiting to see the <strong>artists<\/strong> in person, Riyadh Season announced the <strong>cancellation<\/strong> via social media due to a strong storm.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>\u201c<em><strong>Due to extreme weather conditions tonight&#8217;s Stray Kids and Chungha show has been postponed. We will provide further updates soon<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; they tweeted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RiyadhSeason\/status\/1482029152203067392\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Due to extreme weather conditions tonight\u2019s Stray Kids and Chungha show has been postponed. We will provide further updates soon.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \u0645\u0648\u0633\u0645 \u0627\u0644\u0631\u064a\u0627\u0636 | Riyadh Season (@RiyadhSeason) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RiyadhSeason\/status\/1482029152203067392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 14, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>After the cancellation of the concerts, it began to spread on <strong>Twitter<\/strong> that numerous fans who were waiting for the shows were <strong>missing<\/strong> in the midst of the chaos. It was also reported that Riyadh Season staff members <strong>assaulted<\/strong> fans, and there were cases of <strong>harassment<\/strong> and <strong>kidnapping<\/strong> attempts.<\/p>\n<p>You may also like: <\/p>\n<p>K-pop <strong>fandoms<\/strong> from all over the world came together on the social network to replicate information about missing people. Netizens claimed that both Stray Kids staff and the police joined the help at the scene.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>According to updates, many fans reported missing have already been <strong>located<\/strong> and are safe. However, there were still people who were <strong>wanted<\/strong> by friends and family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stray Kids concerts in Saudi Arabia were highly anticipated by fans attending the Riyadh Seasons festival; however, they were canceled just hours after they started, on the night of January 14 (AST). The event is a multi-week entertainment festival in Saudi Arabia that includes different types of art. It started in 2019 and had BTS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2817,"featured_media":19387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1586,16],"tags":[1074],"class_list":{"0":"post-19380","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-festival","8":"category-kpop","9":"tag-stray-kids"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19380","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\/2817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}