{"id":30375,"date":"2022-08-18T10:38:08","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T17:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=30375"},"modified":"2022-08-18T10:38:08","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T17:38:08","slug":"mayor-of-busan-asks-the-presidential-office-to-grant-alternative-military-service-to-bts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/mayor-of-busan-asks-the-presidential-office-to-grant-alternative-military-service-to-bts\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor of Busan asks the presidential office to grant alternative military service to BTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On August 18th, Busan Mayor<strong> Park Heong Joon<\/strong> requested to allow members of the K-Pop group <strong>BTS<\/strong> to replace their <strong>military<\/strong> service with alternative service as public relations ambassadors for the city&#8217;s <strong>World Expo 2030<\/strong> bid.<\/p>\n<p>The Mayor took the matter to the presidential office, explaining that the singers would play a vital role beyond imagination in winning the bid to <strong>host<\/strong> the event in the city in 2030.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the presidential office should grant them the benefit of <strong>alternative<\/strong> service currently available to athletes and entertainers who have contributed to national prestige or cultural advancement.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Kpop_Herald\/status\/1560121593317462017\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Busan Mayor Park Heong-joon has made a proposal asking the presidential office to grant <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bts_bighit?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@bts_bighit<\/a> the alternative military service benefit as a PR ambassador in charge of promoting the city&#39;s bid to host the 2030 World Expo. Fingers crossed! \ud83e\udd1e <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BTS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#BTS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WorldExpo2030BusanKorea?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#WorldExpo2030BusanKorea<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gAmM5JiHK1\">pic.twitter.com\/gAmM5JiHK1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; KpopHerald (@Kpop_Herald) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Kpop_Herald\/status\/1560121593317462017?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 18, 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>The government appointed BTS as a public relations <strong>ambassador<\/strong> to promote the bid for the Expo, for which Busan is competing with cities in Italy and Saudi Arabia. The mayor is hoping for a big promotional campaign from BTS to give the city a competitive edge in the <strong>competition<\/strong> to host Expo 2030.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>\u201c<em><strong>I am well aware of what it means to serve in the military in South Korea. However, if BTS is allowed to do alternative military service, its members will have national duties as heavy as military service and will serve the nation in their unique capacity<\/strong><\/em>\u201d, he explained.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On August 18th, Busan Mayor Park Heong Joon requested to allow members of the K-Pop group BTS to replace their military service with alternative service as public relations ambassadors for the city&#8217;s World Expo 2030 bid. The Mayor took the matter to the presidential office, explaining that the singers would play a vital role beyond [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2817,"featured_media":30376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[49],"class_list":{"0":"post-30375","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\/30375","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=30375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}