Jin Hit News in English

  Original article:  Media Today ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ March 4 — Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism Report to the National Assembly's Culture Committee ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Regarding the exclusive live broadcast of BTS's comeback performance in Gwanghwamun, Seoul, on the 21st by global OTT platform Netflix, lawmaker Im Oh-kyung of the Democratic Party of Korea, floor leader of the National Assembly's Culture, Sport and Tourism Committee, urged the Ministry of Culture, Sport and Tourism to consider support measures for domestic OTT serviced when broadcasting K-content.  On March 4, during a plenary session of the Culture Committee, Im questioned Minister Choi Hwi-young, who was present to deliver a work report from the Ministry of Culture, Sport and Tourism.  She stated, "Do you understand what Netflix's exclusive broadcast implies? People around the world must subscribe to Netflix in order to watch BTS's performance. In effect,...

  ✪ 2013-2014: Debut & Early Struggles 2013 ● Debuted with "No More Dream" (2 Cool 4 Skool)  ● Began building a small but loyal fan base ● Known for socially conscious lyrics 2014 ● First overseas concerts ● Released "Dark & Wild" ● Started gaining international online fans 📌 Era: Survival and foundation.  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✪ 2015-2016: Breakthrough in Korea & Asia 2015 ● Breakthrough hit: I NEED U ● First music show wins ● Won "Artist of the year" at major Korean awards 2016 ● Released "Wings" ● First daesang (grand prize)  ● Major growth in Japan and Southeast Asia 📌 Era: Domestic success → regional dominance ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 2017: Global breakthrough 2017 ● Won "Top Social Artist" at the Billboard Music Awards ● First K-pop group to perform at major U.S. award shows ● Appeared on American TV programs ● Entered Billboard Hot 100 📌 Era: Entry into Western mainstream ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━...

Original article:  Herald Economy ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Accused of stalking by visiting Jungkook's residence 23 times "Repeatedly rang the doorbell hundreds of times and waited nearby" Also charged with trespassing by entering through an open side door ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ It has been confirmed that prosecutors have indicted a Brazilian woman in her 30s for repeatedly visiting the residence of Jungkook, a member of BTS, and engaging in stalking behavior, including ringing his front-door doorbell hundreds or times and unlawfully entering his home.  According to the investigation by Herald Economy  on March 3, the Women and Children Crimes Investigation Division of the Seoul Western District Prosecutors' Office (Chief prosecutor Wang Sun-joo) indicted the woman, identified as Ms. A, on February 27 on charges of violating the anti-stalking act and trespassing, while she was custody. Although she was also investigated for attempted trespassing...

  Original article:  IZE When American pop diva Taylor Swift launched her The Eras Tour in 2023, a new term —“Swiftnomics”—was coined. This was because the scale of her world tour was so massive that it was likened to an economic phenomenon in itself. Wherever Swift performed, crowds flocked to the cities, filling them with excitement and cheers. As a result, statistics in service industries such as transportation, accommodation, and food and beverage surged, temporarily boosting local economies. “Swiftnomics” was even officially mentioned in an economic report by the Federal Reserve . According to the report, hotel sales in Philadelphia and public transportation usage across Chicago reached post-pandemic highs due to the tour. In Chicago alone, tens of thousands of additional transit trips were recorded during the tour period. Based on these figures, media estimates put the economic impact of Swiftnomics at around $5 billion across more than 20 U.S. cities—over 7 trillion w...

  Original article:  NGO ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ "Performing time decided considering the nature of an outdoor public venue... Minimizing inconvenience to citizens" Seoul Metropolitan Government: "The concerts structure and duration are entirely under HYBE's authority" ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ BTS's free comeback concert celebrating the release of their fifth full-length album, BTS THE COMEBACK LIVE: ARIRANG, scheduled for next month on the 21st at Gwanghwamun Square in Seoul, is expected to feature not only new songs but also their past hit tracks.  According to the music industry on the 28th, their agency BigHit Music under HYBE is currently discussing a stage lineup that will include tracks from their fifth studio album Arirang as well as globally beloved hit songs.  This concert has drawn significant attention as it marks the first time in three years and nine months that BTS will present their new album on stage to a global audien...

  Jungkook's late-night Livestream in the early hours of the 26th continues to dominate online discussions. It marked the first time he openly admitted to smoking, saying, "I used to smoke a lot, but I've worked really hard to stop." Mentioning his agency, BigHit Music, he added, "The moment I talk about this, the company is going to flip out." He further vented, "I don't even know what I'm saying. It's frustrating and annoying. I'm going to live the way I want. I don't care about the company," and stated, "I wanted to be honest with ARMY. If it weren't for the company, I would have told you everything." During the broadcast, be was also seen making a middle-finger gesture and using profanity. When the sweat words came up, Jungkook clarified, "I didn't do that to the ARMYs. I only give love to the ARMYs."  Some viewers argued that he was still trying to "maintain the boundaries of an idol" b...