πŸ‡°πŸ‡· K-pop World Tours 2026: Your Guide to Catching BTS, BLACKPINK & Stray Kids Live (2026)

If you've noticed "BTS tour dates," "BLACKPINK concert 2026," or "Stray Kids Colombia" spiking in your search history lately, you're not imagining it — K-pop's three biggest touring acts are all doing something newsworthy right now, and a lot of that buzz is coming out of Latin America specifically.

I live in Korea, so I get the local side of this (ticket sale panic on Korean sites, fan chatter, the works) as well as what's actually confirmed for international dates. Here's where each group stands as of today, plus a first deep dive into the biggest one of the three.

🎀 BTS — mid-way through the biggest K-pop tour ever

BTS are currently on the road with WORLD TOUR "ARIRANG," which kicked off in Goyang in April 2026 and doesn't wrap until March 2027. It's already the highest-grossing tour by a vocal group in history, and — this is the part Latin American fans have been asking about — Mexico, Colombia, and Brazil are all officially confirmed stops. Exact dates for those shows haven't dropped yet, but the countries are locked in.

I've written up everything confirmed so far, region by region, in a full deep dive: πŸ‡°πŸ‡· BTS World Tour "ARIRANG": Every Confirmed City So Far (2026-2027).

πŸ–€ BLACKPINK — between tours right now

BLACKPINK's "Deadline" World Tour wrapped in Hong Kong in late January 2026, and as of this writing there's no new group tour on the calendar. That doesn't mean quiet, though — Jisoo just dropped a solo single in September and the members have been busy individually. Given how their last tour sold out stadiums across three continents, I'd bet on an announcement eventually, but if you're seeing "BLACKPINK tour 2026" articles right now, most of them are recapping the tour that already ended, not a new one.

πŸƒ Stray Kids — a proper world tour, plus a Latin America festival run

Stray Kids just launched their "RUN IT" World Tour in Seoul this past summer, with the Asia leg (Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, Fukuoka, Hong Kong, Taipei) rolling out through early 2027. Separately — and this is the one to watch if you're in Latin America — they're headlining a new festival called "Straycity" across Colombia, Argentina, and Mexico this September, plus a slot at Rock in Rio in Brazil the same month. Full "RUN IT" dates for the Americas haven't been announced yet.

πŸ’‘ Pro tip: for any of these three, don't assume tickets work like a normal concert. Korean shows usually open with a members-only presale through the group's official fan platform (Weverse for BTS/BLACKPINK, a similar system for Stray Kids) before anything hits Ticketmaster or a local site — so if you want in, the fan-club presale is usually your best shot, not the general sale.

I'll be adding BLACKPINK and Stray Kids deep dives as their 2026 schedules firm up — for now, dig into the full BTS breakdown if that's the one you're chasing.

Enjoy~

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