{"id":47910,"date":"2022-12-22T11:23:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T19:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=47910"},"modified":"2022-12-22T11:23:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T19:23:00","slug":"bts-jungkook-auctioned-off-his-car-and-they-give-him-a-million-dollar-sum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/bts-jungkook-auctioned-off-his-car-and-they-give-him-a-million-dollar-sum\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS&#8217; Jungkook auctioned off his car and they give him a million-dollar sum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jungkook<\/strong> is one of the most acclaimed members of <strong>BTS<\/strong>, all thanks to the success of his solo musical career, on this occasion the artist, taking advantage of fame, decided to <strong>auction<\/strong> off his old personal <strong>car<\/strong> and it was sold at auction for a million-dollar sum.<\/p>\n<p>The singer&#8217;s car, a <strong>Mercedes Benz AMG G 63<\/strong>, was auctioned via <strong>Backlot<\/strong> and sold for 1.2 billion won or $917,080 on Tuesday through the official auction platform <strong>Seoul Auction<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Backlot only described the car as being \u201c<em><strong>driven by a world celebrity after the car was launched<\/strong><\/em>\u201d, but after it was revealed to be K-Pop group Jungkook, it garnered much more attention.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BIGHIT_INFO\/status\/1602912307297673217\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jungkook&#39;s Mercedes Benz AMG G63 Edition of 230 million KRW ($178,357 USD) sold for 1.2 billion KRW ($930,629 USD) at auction.<\/p>\n<p>Jungkook purchased this car in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The starting auction price was $116,320 USD and the\u00a0vehicle was finally sold at $930,559 USD. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LI9vFp5gx4\">pic.twitter.com\/LI9vFp5gx4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BIGHIT INFO \u272a (@BIGHIT_INFO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BIGHIT_INFO\/status\/1602912307297673217?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 14, 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 car was supposed to go up for auction in November, but the process was <strong>halted<\/strong> shortly before the auction closed after the highest bidder was found to be a foreigner whose identity could not be <strong>identified<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The Backlot then resumed the auction last Tuesday after banning foreign minors from participating and limiting participation to those who left a <strong>deposit<\/strong> of 5 million won or $3,821, ending the auction on the same day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jungkook is one of the most acclaimed members of BTS, all thanks to the success of his solo musical career, on this occasion the artist, taking advantage of fame, decided to auction off his old personal car and it was sold at auction for a million-dollar sum. The singer&#8217;s car, a Mercedes Benz AMG G [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2817,"featured_media":47912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7,1361],"tags":[49,933],"class_list":{"0":"post-47910","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kpop","8":"category-news","9":"category-social-network","10":"tag-bts","11":"tag-jungkook"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47910","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=47910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}