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The outfits that the members of BTS wore in the music video for their chart-topping single
Dynamite sold for US$162,500 (RM660,000) at a charity auction in Beverly Hills, California recently.
The septet’s pastel coloured ensembles were purchased by Japanese art collector Yusaku Maezawa and YouTuber Hikakin.
The outfits included the colourful T-shirts, hats, shirts, pants, shorts and sneakers that BTS wear during the beginning of the music video and the dance sequence at the end.
The event’s organiser Julien’s Auctions had estimated that the K-pop group’s ensembles would sell for somewhere between US$20,000 and US$40,000.
The proceeds of the auction will benefit MusiCares to provide aid to musicians devastated by Covid-19. MusiCares is the philanthropic organisation of the Recording Academy, which hosts the annual Grammy Awards.
Launched last year, the app allows fans to text their favourite artistes and receive texts from them. Some fans, however, are complaining they're not getting enough messages.
CJ ENM announced recently that Hyun Bin will join the sequel of the Korean comedy-action film
Confidential Assignment and play North Korean agent Lim Cheol-ryeong again.
Released in January 2017, the original
Confidential Assignment was a movie about an inter-Korean secret police mission. The film at the time garnered more than 7.81 million viewers.
Hyun Bin’s character Lim in the previous film was dispatched to South Korea to capture his superior Cha Ki-seong that murdered his wife and fellow team members.
In the new movie, Hyun Bin’s character will again be dispatched to South Korea to hunt down a leader of a North Korean criminal organisation. This time the North Korean agent will show how more comfortable he became working on his mission in South Korea.
As things stand, even the most optimistic scenarios today cannot assure access to vaccines and therapeutics for the majority of the population, in rich and poor countries, by the end of 2021.