{"id":151319,"date":"2025-10-29T08:06:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T15:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=151319"},"modified":"2025-10-29T08:06:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T15:06:54","slug":"bts-rm-delivers-powerful-keynote-at-apec-ceo-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/bts-rm-delivers-powerful-keynote-at-apec-ceo-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS\u2019 RM delivers powerful keynote at APEC CEO summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BTS<\/strong>\u2019 <strong>RM<\/strong>\u2019s influence has been notorious over the years, particularly as global organizations highlight his efforts and contributions to the music industry. This time, the idol delivered a powerful keynote at the APEC CEO\u2019s summits\u2019 cultural session.<\/p>\n<p>On October 29, the APEC session was held at Gyeongju Arts Center, focused on \u201c<em>Creative Industries in the APEC Region and the Soft Power of K-Culture.<\/em>\u201d RM then shared his insights into why Kpop became a <strong>global success<\/strong> and why it is important to support creators worldwide.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=w02UBQ4nqoM\" title=\"BTS RM, APEC CEO \uc368\ubc0b \uae30\uc870\uc5f0\uc124 - [\ud604\uc7a5PLAY] MBC\ub274\uc2a4 2025\ub144 10\uc6d4 29\uc77c\" width=\"1240\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w02UBQ4nqoM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>&#8220;As a creator, I feel both deep pride and great expectations that this year, culture has been recognized as a <strong>core agenda item<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><strong>The idol also recalled how difficult it was to introduce the Kpop genre to the whole world<\/strong>, but all of his efforts and the rest of the Kpop industry have paid off as he reflects on his personal journey during these past 10 years:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>\u201cFans who embrace our music not just as entertainment but as a language of life. Their borderless passion opened a completely new path for me, enabling me to speak not only at global award shows like the &#8216;Billboard Music Awards&#8217; and the Grammys, but also at the UN General Assembly, the White House, and now, this APEC stage. It was even more difficult when people introduced us as &#8216;Korean artists.&#8217; Instead of asking about our music, we were often met with unexpected questions: &#8216;Are you from North Korea or South Korea?&#8217; &#8216;Where is Korea exactly?&#8217; We had to explain the country before our music. But today, <strong>I stand here because those barriers were broken thanks to ARMY. They use our music to communicate across borders and languages.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BTS\u2019 RM\u2019s influence has been notorious over the years, particularly as global organizations highlight his efforts and contributions to the music industry. This time, the idol delivered a powerful keynote at the APEC CEO\u2019s summits\u2019 cultural session. On October 29, the APEC session was held at Gyeongju Arts Center, focused on \u201cCreative Industries in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3102,"featured_media":151320,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,16,7],"tags":[49,934],"class_list":{"0":"post-151319","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-kpop","9":"category-news","10":"tag-bts","11":"tag-rm"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}