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‘BTS Father’ Bang Si-hyuk rises to 500 U.S. variety enterprise leaders

Input 2020.12.29 11:55

Bang Si-hyuk, chairman of Big Hit Entertainment, who raised the group BTS (BTS), was the first to be on the list of 500 world entertainment industry leaders selected by the American entertainment media variety.

According to Big Hit on the 29th, Chairman Bang was selected as the’Variety 500′ released by Variety on the 23rd (local time). ‘Variety 500’ is a list of 500 most influential leaders in the global media industry every year since 2017.

Bang Si-hyuk, Chairman of Big Hit Entertainment. /Provided Big Hit Entertainment

Variety listed BTS’s achievements this year, including No. 1 on the Billboard single chart of’Dynamite’ and establishing a Guinness record with an online concert, and said, “If you don’t know Korean boy band BTS, where on earth did you live?”

Regarding Chairman Bang, “It’s not just a’Showman’,” he said, “Acquiring Pledis Entertainment, Source Music, and game company Superv, and advancing into the technology field through’Weverse’, a fan community, strongly promoting business diversification. “I did”.

He said, “40% of the top 100 sales of Korean album sales in the first half of this year were the work of Big Hit Labels artists, and when the company was released last October, the value of the Big Hit company recorded about 8 trillion won.”

In this year’s’Variety 500′, Lee Soo-man, the general producer of SM Entertainment, was also listed again. This producer has been on the list for the fourth year since 2017.

Variety said, “These days when Big Hit’s BTS is in the spotlight, this producer showed off a Super M called’K-Pop Avengers’.” “As the father of K-pop, the influence is still great.”

In the movie field, director Bong Joon-ho was named after last year. In addition, CJ Vice Chairman Lee Mi-kyung was the first to be on the list for his contributions to making the movie’Parasite’.

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