[ENg] Korean Cultural Center in China made the public relation contents about BTS Jimin`s Korean Fan Dance(note: 부채춤/Bu-chae-choom)...‘Icon of Enhancing the national prestige’ / 주중한국문화원, 방탄소년단 지민 부채춤 퍼포먼스 홍보 콘텐츠 제작..'국위선양 아이콘'

주중한국문화원에서 지민이의 부채춤을 가지고 홍보 자료를 만든것에 대한 기사 번역입니다. 이때 김백봉 부채춤 보존회에서 감사패도 받고, 지민이 멋진 공연도 보고 정말 좋았죠? ㅎㅎ 국보급 가수 지민이 앞으로도 파이팅!!💛

Korean Cultural Center in China made the public relation contents with Jimin’s Korean fan dance performance at the 2018 Melon Music Award. 🍈 I translate the article about it.

Original Article/원문 링크: https://n.news.naver.com/entertain/article/108/0002875734

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Title: Korean Cultural Center in China made the public relation contents about BTS Jimin`s Korean Fan Dance(note: 부채춤/Bu-chae-choom)...‘Icon of Enhancing the national prestige’ (translated by @translation_jm)

Korean Cultural Center in China started introducing Korean culture, making the public relation contents with BTS Jimin`s Korean fan dance performance. 

On last 30th June, Korean Cultural Center in China said “K-culture, which means Korean culture, is spreading to the world beyond Korea. We hope this to be the bridge that can best show Korean culture, and promote the cultural exchanges between China and Korea”, on its official Weibo account.

In succession, North American entertainment magazine Allkpop also provided full coverage of this, saying “Korean Cultural Center in China made headlines by posting Jimin`s Korean fan dance performance video on its Weibo account, as part of its Korean Culture public relations.”

Korean Cultural Center in China introduced ‘K-FOOD’ like ‘Kimchi, Doenjang-guk, Japchae, Kimbap’, which represents Korea, and also introduced Korean fan dance among ‘K-DANCE’, saying “Korean dance is the artistic expression method with outstanding expression which moves the audiences` thoughts and emotions”, as the Korean culture public relation contents.

Also it posted the 3 minute-long video, saying “Jimin, the member of global popular idol group BTS, surprised lots of K-pop fans all around the world with the Korean fan dance performance which’s just a minute or so at the awards ceremony. Would you join our Korean traditional fan dance learning class for foreigners?”

Jimin showed Korean fan dance performance, with his dynamic and delicate dancing line and matchless acting skills, along to the Korean-style melody on the intro performance of the ‘IDOL’ stage at ‘2018 Melon Music Award’. His performance captivated the audience at once, and drew huge attentions by ranking 2nd in the Worldwide trending on Twitter with more than 2 million tweets, and ranking 1st in the real-time search on Daum`s entertainment issue. (note: Daum is the popular portal site in Korea, like Google.)

Also Jimin got credit for introducing Korean traditional dance, receiving the appreciation plaque from the society for the preservation of Kim Baek-Bong’s Korean fan dance, which`s the 3rd intangible cultural asset of Pyeongannam-do Province. And the picture from Jimin`s fan dance performance graced the cover of Korean weekly policy information magazine ‘Weekly Gonggam(496th issue)’ (note: You can see the 496th issue here http://gonggam.korea.kr/fcatalog/ecatalog5.jsp?Dir=1579 ), which is published by Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. 

At that time, a foreign media provided the full, glowing coverage of Jimin making a strong impression which overwhelmed the whole world with the stage which was just one minute or so, saying Jimin`s ‘Serendipity(the title of Jimin`s solo track)’-like Korean fan dance, which was performed at 2018 Melon Music Award, was awe-inspiring. Jimin is the king of dance, and he proved once again that he was born for the stage.”

Like this, Jimin contributed a lot to promoting the status and aesthetic value of Korean fan dance to the world by embodying Korea`s beautiful fan dance originatively. Also, as the lifting the ban of Korean culture in China is anticipated, BTS Jimin`s national treasure-like fan dance, which`s leading ‘K-Culture’, is expected to act as the bridge for the cultural exchange between Korea and China.

Whether Jimin, who`s building powerful fandom in China with his unrivaled power of influence and presence although he has never acted in China, will raise his status as ‘K-pop Frontman’ more, further heating up the Chinese continent, is attracting the attention.