Recent reports revealed BTS raised over $300,000 in charity auctions, with 7 personal items demonstrating once again how their popularity generates a positive impact.
The ‘One Goal’ auction reunites a catalog full of exclusive World Cup items to raise funds for the FIFA Global Citizen Education Fund, which will bring quality education and sports activities to underprivileged children.
For this important cause, the BTS members seven personal items from their look on their World Cup halftime show performance, including RM‘s boots, Jin‘s belt, SUGA‘s pants, J-Hope‘s gloves, V‘s scarf, Jimin‘s shirt, and Jungkook‘s jacket.
Among these, Jimin’s shirt fetched the highest price of the auction by being sold for 110,000 USD, tying with the prize of the official match ball used in the World Cup Final between Spain and Argentina, which were the biggest items of the auction.
The other members items were also sold for large sums, such as both V’s scarf and Jungkook’s jacket for $46,200 USD, SUGA’s pants sold for $33,000 USD, J-Hope’s gloves for $28,600 USD, RM’s boots for $19,800 USD, and Jin’s belt for $16,500 USD.
This means that BTS members earned a total of $300,300 USD from their items, approximately 46% of the auction’s overall proceeds of $652,630 USD.
