BTS deliver ‘message of hope’ at UN General Assembly to ‘give strength to people’ amid Covid-19 pandemic

Band members share their own struggles with coronavirus lockdowns in English and Korean, and encourage fans to stay positive

The K-pop supergroup were appearing in a pre-recorded video posted by Unicef on Wednesday

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K-pop supergroup BTS delivered a ‘message of hope’ in a pre-recorded video posted by Unicef as part of the 75th UN General Assembly on Wednesday.

Published: 11:06am, 24 Sep 2020Updated: 9:43pm, 24 Sep 2020

K-pop supergroup BTS delivered a “message of hope” in a pre-recorded video posted by the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) on Wednesday as part of the 75th UN General Assembly.

In the video, members of the South Korean pop group shared their own struggles with coronavirus pandemic lockdowns in English and Korean, and encouraged fans to stay positive.

“Let us reimagine our world,” said BTS leader RM. “It might feel like it’s always night and we’ll always be alone, but the night is always darkest before the first light of dawn.”

“If our voices can give strength to people, then that’s what we want and that’s what we’ll keep on doing,” band member Jungkook said in his native language.

BTS recently became the first South Korean act to debut at No 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 singles chart after their first English-language song, Dynamite, logged nearly 34 million US streams and 300,000 sales in its first week, the biggest digital sales week for any artist or group in nearly three years.