Jin Hit News in English

  If you have recently visited X or Threads, you may have noticed an escalating online conflict between Southeast Asian users, offer referred to as "SEAblings," and Korean netizens. The controversy began after reports emerged that Korean fansites had secretly brought large professional cameras and lenses into a concert by DAY6 in Malaysia, despite strict rules prohibiting recording equipment.  Local fans criticized what they perceived as preferential treatment toward Korean fansites and argued that they had disrespected local regulations. Meanwhile, some Korean netizens defended the fansites and accused Malaysian fans of overreacting. Disparaging and discriminatory remarks made a segment of Korean netizens toward Southeast Asian fans sparked widespread backlash. Many SEA fans emphasized that, despite being a major consumer market, they were not being treated with due respect.  The dispute soon extended beyond K-pop and evolved into broader cross-cultural attacks. Korean c...

  Original article:  Aju News ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ As BTS prepares for its comeback in March, the world is once again abuzz with anticipation. News of the comeback, delivered through "Arirang," along with plans for a world tour, signals a massive phenomenon capable of generating immediate responses not only in the music industry but also across tourism and regional economies. BTS is both a global economic force and a symbolic name that elevates South Korea's national image. Ahead of this comeback, this publication presents the "BTS Profile Series," examining each member in turn and documenting the seven faces that make up BTS. <Editor's Note> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Jin (real name: Kim Seokjin), the eldest member of BTS, is a name that embodies both the longest endurance and the firmest emotional steadiness within the team. As a sub-vocalist, he supports the group's sound, and offstage, he has consistently played a role i...

Original article:  Newswhoplus ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ A survey has found that more than nine out of ten overseas fans of BTS have experience learning Korean language. The findings suggest that moments of suggest that moments of singing along to music have led to voluntary language learning, demonstrating that the influence of K-pop fandom is expanding beyond cultural consumption into the field of education.  According to A Basic Study on Developing Online Korean Language Education Programs for Fandom Communities , released by the Multicultural Convergence Research Institute, 93.4% of the 381 fans from 69 countries surveyed said they had learned Korean. The most common motivation for learning was "interest in K-pop and artists," cited by 70.6% of respondents. In other words, fan activities have become a direct driving force for learning.  However, learning methods were largely disconnected from systematic education. Only 7.8% had taken in-person classes, while...

  From every perspective—both physically and mentally—ARMYs would undoubtedly rank Jungkook among the bravest members of BTS. While other members—even the oldest one—are often afraid of things like ghosts, heights, or extreme sports, the "Golden Maknae" seems to fear almost nothing at all.  Jungkook can jump off swings without hesitation and enthusiastically take on  bungee jumping challenges towering cliffs.  Just watching him is enough to make one's heart race. Many idols would probably back out, but he remains calm and even excited when facing such activities.  Fans also know that Jungkook has a strong personality and always confronts challenges head-on. He participates in various sports, such as boxing and weight training, and performs difficult dance routines that require both mental and physical strength.  Because of this, it is hard to imagine anything could startle or scare him. However, Jungkook has shown that he is completely human and carries a f...

  Original article:  Aju News ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━─ With the comeback of the group BTS scheduled for March, the world is once again buzzing with with excitement. News of their return, delivered through "Arirang," along with plans of a world tour, signals a massive phenomenon that is expected to spark immediate reactions not only in the music industry but also across tourism and regional economies. BTS is a presence that influences the global economy and, at the same time, a symbolic name that elevates South Korea's national image. Ahead of this comeback, our publication presents the "BTS Profile Series," which takes an in-depth look at each member in turn, documenting the seven faces that make up BTS. <Editor's note> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The leader of BTS, RM (real name Kim Namjoon), is both the group's starting point and its compass. As the main rapper and the core of t...

  Original article:  Yonhap News ⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋⚋ Accomodation prices in Busan are set to rise sharply in June, when the K-pop group BTS holds its concert, with average rates increasing by 2.4 times and peaking at as much as 7.5 times.  The Korea Fair Trade Commission , together with Korea Consumer Agency , released the results of a survey covering 135 accomodations in Busan (52 hotels, 39 motels, and 44 pensions).  According to the commission, the average room rate on June 13, the scheduled concert date, was 143.9% higher—about 2.4 times—compared with the week before or after.  In particular, motels recorded the steepest increase at 3.3 times, followed by hotels at 2.9 times and pensions at 1.2 times.  There were 13 cases—about 10% of all surveyed properties—where prices rose by more than five times compared with normal rates, including instances where rated reached 7.5 times the usual level during the concert period.  The commission exp...