{"id":804638,"date":"2020-02-26T13:19:37","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T20:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=958518"},"modified":"2020-02-26T13:19:37","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T20:19:37","slug":"korean-music-festival-in-los-angeles-postponed-amid-coronavirus-scare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/korean-music-festival-in-los-angeles-postponed-amid-coronavirus-scare\/","title":{"rendered":"Korean Music Festival in Los Angeles Postponed Amid Coronavirus Scare"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Amid coronavirus<\/a>-scare travel restrictions, the annual Korea Times Music Festival<\/a> has been postponed, festival organizers announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is with deepest regret that we announce the postponement of the 18th KTMF scheduled on April 25th, 2020, due to current travel restrictions in Asia,\u201d organizers said in a statement. \u201cWe truly apologize for the inconvenience to those who have been looking forward to this event and ask for your kind understanding.\u201d<\/p>\n

The festival, one of the more notable annual Korean music events in the U.S., has previously showcased the likes of K-Pop<\/a> stars Rain, Super Junior, Red Velvet, and NCT 127. The annual event started in Southern California in 2003 and was set to take place at the Hollywood Bowl. Organizers did not specify when the concert would be rescheduled, but said fans can return their tickets for a refund or save them for the later date.<\/p>\n

The spread of coronavirus has led to multiple travel restrictions, and concerts across Asia had been postponed over health concerns. British rapper Stormzy announced earlier this month that he would postpone shows in Asia from his world tour. <\/a>There have now been nearly 81,000 coronavirus cases globally, and 3,000 people have died, according to The New York Times<\/em>. <\/a><\/p>\n

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This isn\u2019t the first time the coronavirus has delayed Asian music events in Southern California. Earlier in February, the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra\u2019s concert in Orange County was canceled, according to the Los Angeles Times<\/em><\/a>. <\/em>Last week, the Overpass Music Festival<\/a>, another Orange County event, featuring multiple asian performers, announced it would be postponing the concert<\/a> until September 26th.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith guests coming from different parts of the globe, specifically from Asia, rescheduling the festival to protect people\u2019s health and safety is an important and necessary decision to make,\u201d Overpass organizers said. \u201cWe are hoping that that COVID-19 threat can be contained and travel bans are lifted so that we may push forward with the festival.\u201d<\/p>\n

The coronavirus has most prominently impacted Asia\u2019s live-music scene. \u201cEveryone has to cancel their Asian tours for a while,\u201d Steve Dixon of Music Tour Management said following a question from Rolling Stone <\/em>at a Pollstar conference in Los Angeles in February. \u201cPeople are waiting to see what happens. If artists can\u2019t tour Asia while they\u2019re waiting for it to be contained, you might see a lot more people touring other territories. You might see more in America, South America, Europe while they can\u2019t tour Asia.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Amid coronavirus-scare travel restrictions, the annual Korea Times Music Festival has been postponed, festival organizers announced Tuesday. \u201cIt is with deepest regret that we announce the postponement of the 18th KTMF scheduled on April 25th, 2020, due to current travel restrictions in Asia,\u201d organizers said in a statement. \u201cWe truly apologize for the inconvenience to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-804638","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-21 15:21:45","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}