It was revealed that the group BTS member Jungkook became the basis for a character appearing in an American Disney animation.
On the 22nd local time, Disney director Bo Coburn announced through SNS that one of the characters in the latest episode of his animation was BTS' Jungkook.
The animation produced by Bo Coburn is 'The Owl House', which has been aired on the US TV Disney Channel since January 2020, and won the Children's and Youth Program Award at The Peabody Awards, which is called the Pulitzer Prize in broadcasting. This is a suspicious piece of work.
He said, "I brought up my favorite artists in the hopes that K-pop music and culture would be reflected even a little."
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Bo Coburn revealed that in addition to Jungkook, other characters that appeared together in the same episode were the group Big Bang G-Dragon, SHINee Taemin, and singer Jessie.
The characters reproduce the appearances of real Jungkook, G-Dragon, Taemin, and Jessie, and in particular, Jungkook's purple hair in the BTS 'Butter' music video was made into a character.
Another producer of the same work, Vesela Stamenova, also shared the behind-the-scenes footage of the scene on social media.
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He said, "Director Bo Coburn's K-pop homage scene was the most important scene I've ever painted," he said, and said that he enjoyed the production process.
Koreaboo, an American entertainment media, said, "Even though it was only 2 seconds, viewers couldn't take their eyes off of it, and the fact that K-pop even made its way to the Disney show is proof of its (K-pop's) global influence. Idols in Disney It's not uncommon for it to appear, and it's a big step for K-pop to enter TV animation."
(Photo = Bo Coburn·Vesela Stamenova·BTS·G-Dragon·Taemin·Jesse Instagram, Disney Channel official website)
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(SBS Entertainment News Editor Minjae Jeon)