How K-Pop Band BTS Positively Impacted Gender and Youth Equality Throughout Their Career

How K-Pop Band BTS Positively Has Impacted Gender and Youth Equality Throughout Their Career
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How K-Pop Band BTS Positively Has Impacted Gender and Youth Equality Throughout Their Career
Abstract
Music can significantly influence how people do or perceive various things in life. Indeed, it can encourage people on how to avoid problems. The K-Pop band BTS is a seven-member South Korean music group founded in 2010. The band has gained popularity worldwide by composing, writing, performing, and producing songs and videos that promote gender and youth equality. The two primary themes emphasized by BTS are love and equality, which are crucial in fighting against individuals’ differences. BTS encourages people to love themselves and others regardless of their culture, age, or gender differences. The group has gone further to release English songs to ensure that the message is passed to people worldwide. Therefore, BTS has been a significant force positively promoting gender and youth equality.
Introduction
The K-Pop band BTS is one of the largest music groups in South Korea. The band has seven members, and they began as the Big Hit Entertainment’s trainees before becoming a band. Band members’ names are Kim Nam-Joom, Kim Seok-Jin, Min Yoon-Gi, Jung Ho-Seok, Kim Tae-Hyung, Jeon JungKook, and Park Ji-Min (Kraterou & Roback, 2021). BTS was established in 2010, and in 2013, the band signed with Big Hit Entertainment. Many of the K-Pop band artists were discovered by Big Hit Entertainment through auditions. Big Hit Entertainment nurtured the BTS members, prepared, and coached them to be music superstars. For instance, they were trained how to sing and dance. Some of the members, such as JungKook, started to train when he was only 14. JungKook is the youngest member and is now 23-years-old (Choi, 2020). The popularity and celebrity status of BTS has positively impacted youth equality and gender. Before becoming a K-Pop idol group, BTS was previously thought to be a hip-hop group. The K-Pop Band’s first music album is called “2 COOL 4 SKOOL” and succeeded beyond expectations after it was released. In particular, one of the songs in the album is known as No More Dream, which portrays the pressures that teenagers encounter when growing up. The K-Pop Band has positively impacted gender and youth equality throughout their career. 
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The K-Pop band is so far the largest group in South Korea and exports music overseas. In 2019, their music downloads, merchandise, and ticket sales generated about $4.65 billion, accounting for around 0.3% of South Korea’s gross domestic product (GDP) (Liu, 2020). BTS became the first South Korean band to earn three number one albums based on the Billboard 200 chart in the same year. Although BTS did not get a Grammy nomination in 2020, they performed with Lil Nas X. Specifically, BTS has become one of the most renowned music bands globally. The K-Pop band has many fans from all over the world, and they significantly influence numerous gender and youth equality social movements. Being an idol group has made numerous peo...