Korean idol BTS #1 on American music chart September 10 23:31
BTS, a male idol group in South Korea, won the first place on the American music chart, and the Korean government announced the analysis result that the economic ripple effect is more than 150 billion yen.
The new song "Dynamite" by BTS, an idol group of seven Korean men, won first place for two consecutive weeks in the single section of the American music chart "Billboard".
According to a major record company, it is the first time in 57 years for an Asian singer to win first place on a single chart since Kyu Sakamoto's "Let's walk up" in 1963.
Korea's Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism announced on the 7th that it will have a total of 1.7 trillion won, or more than 150 billion yen in Japanese yen, after analyzing the ripple effect on the economy that BTS won the first place. ..
Specifically, in addition to sales of songs, exports of related cosmetics, groceries, clothing, etc. will increase, and it will have the effect of creating jobs for approximately 8,000 people.
Regarding the Korean content industry such as movies and music, the movie “Parasite Semi-Underground Family” was the first foreign language movie to receive an Academy Award for Best Work, and was influenced by the new coronavirus. With the Korean economy stagnating, there are voices of expectations as a growth industry.