Tickets that go for $9,000 each; fans who plant trees so their idols can see them from their plane; devotees who listen for up to 11 hours a day.
Few places have caught the K-pop bug as intensely as Latin America.
After nearly a four-year break, the preeminent Korean pop music group BTS is reuniting for a world tour featuring several dates in Latin America, where the group’s return is highly anticipated.
In the band’s absence, the so-called “Korean wave” has continued to flourish on a global scale, with successes represented in the Netflix film “KPop Demon Hunters” and the solo careers of the Blackpink performers.
This dominance is especially…