{"id":29192,"date":"2022-07-20T08:59:50","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T15:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=29192"},"modified":"2023-01-16T00:28:15","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T08:28:15","slug":"busan-world-expo-2030-officials-criticized-for-abrupt-physical-contact-with-bts-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/busan-world-expo-2030-officials-criticized-for-abrupt-physical-contact-with-bts-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Busan World Expo 2030 officials criticized for abrupt physical contact with BTS members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On July 19, a ceremony was held to officially announce that <strong>BTS<\/strong> would be the honorary ambassador of the upcoming <strong>Busan <\/strong><strong>World Expo 2030<\/strong>. The ceremony took place at the <strong>HYBE<\/strong> building, where the nomination committee went to present plaques to each of the seven BTS members as honorary ambassadors.<\/p>\n<p>As <strong>ambassadors<\/strong> of Busan World Expo 2030, BTS will work to promote Korean culture, starting with a world concert to be held in Busan next October.<\/p>\n<p>During the ceremony, a <strong>live<\/strong> broadcast was held where fans from around the world could tune in to watch BTS officially become ambassadors of Busan World Expo 2030. However, many fans could not help but <strong>criticize<\/strong> the officials and politicians for their rude <strong>treatment<\/strong> of the members.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/coltnava\/status\/1549711368403963909\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BTS Chaotic Moments During Appointment Ceremony For World EXPO 2030 Busan<br \/>(<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vRQd8YrTZ7\">https:\/\/t.co\/vRQd8YrTZ7<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ibYVfd98Kl\">pic.twitter.com\/ibYVfd98Kl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Colt Nava (@coltnava) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/coltnava\/status\/1549711368403963909?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 20, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>You may also like: <\/p>\n<p>Many pointed out that when each of the members came forward to receive their individual <strong>plaque<\/strong>, the officials posed for a photo by raising the members&#8217; <strong>arms<\/strong> without warning. As a result, members&#8217; arms were raised and twisted at an odd angle.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>In the shared photos, members can be seen feeling <strong>uncomfortable<\/strong> as they did not expect their arms to be awkwardly raised in the air. Especially <strong>V<\/strong>, who seemed surprised by the sudden action and even stared at his arm.<\/p>\n<p>Many have criticized officials and politicians for doing such a thing without first <strong>consulting<\/strong> the members. Others have even started criticizing the current administration of President <strong>Yoon Seok Yeol<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/charts_k\/status\/1549309155399372800\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BTS_twt?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@BTS_twt<\/a> Busan 2030 World Expo Honorary Ambassador Appointment Ceremony (Media Pics) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Zd5UbXKJnW\">pic.twitter.com\/Zd5UbXKJnW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BTS Charts &amp; Translations (@charts_k) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/charts_k\/status\/1549309155399372800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 19, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 19, a ceremony was held to officially announce that BTS would be the honorary ambassador of the upcoming Busan World Expo 2030. The ceremony took place at the HYBE building, where the nomination committee went to present plaques to each of the seven BTS members as honorary ambassadors. As ambassadors of Busan World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2817,"featured_media":29196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[49],"class_list":{"0":"post-29192","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kpop","8":"tag-bts"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29192","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\/2817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}