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The South Korean Pop Stars Are Inspiring Fans Around the World to Support Good Causes APRIL 2020 ● ARTS AND CULTURE ● VOL. 10 ● NO. 22 EDITION 2 THE BTS EFFECT The South Korean pop stars are inspiring fans around the world to support good causes. timeforkids.com ARTS Jailynne Garcia, 10, loves BTS. They of the charts. are a music group from South Korea. Fans like Jailynne are members “I like how funny they are,” Jailynne of the BTS ARMY. BTS are glad their told TIME for Kids. “I like that they’re fans feel connected to them. “That good dancers and singers. And I like was our goal, to create this empathy that they help people.” that people can relate to,” Suga said. BTS has seven members. They are He was interviewed by TIME in 2018. J-Hope, Jimin, Jin, Jung Kook, RM, Suga, and V. Together, they sing, Pay It Forward dance, and perform. Their songs BTS give back to others. They work are mostly in Korean. But they have with the United Nations Children’s Fund become international superstars. Their (UNICEF) on a big charity project. videos have been viewed billions of The group has raised MARK GARTEN—UNICEF times. Their albums have hit the top more than $2 million for BTS appear with UNICEF’s Lilly Singh (center left) and Henrietta H. Fore. COVER: SARA JAYE WEISS—SHUTTERSTOCK 2 Time for Kids April 2020 BTS perform live in New York City’s Times Square on New Year’s Eve 2019. UNICEF. This money helps protect children and teens. Jailynne and her mom are inspired by BTS. They joined a BTS fan group called One in an ARMY (OIAA). It leads projects to help people in need. SHUTTERSTOCK OIAA has raised money BTS member RM gives a speech at the United for many causes. Most Nations, in New York, on September 24, 2018. people donate just a dollar. But it goes a long way to help others! Jailynne hopes the BTS ARMY will grow. She hopes it will continue to do good deeds, MARK GARTEN—UNICEF too. “The more people GROWING raised more than $28,000 that are doing this, the for One Tree Planted. GOOD In Malaysia, the fan group more happiness it brings One way the BTS ARMY BTS for Charity (below) to others. And a bigger gives back is by planting formed the Green Namu trees. Some fans donate to Project. The group met in change there is in the One Tree Planted. This group November. They planted trees world,” she says. plants trees around the to celebrate the birthdays of three BTS members. ­—By Constance Gibbs world. The BTS ARMY has Power Words deed noun: something that is done; an action empathy noun: the ability to understand another’s feelings COURTESY GREEN NAMU PROJECT AND BTS FOR CHARITY HEAR THE STORY READ ALOUD IN ENGLISH AND IN SPANISH AT TIMEFORKIDS.COM. 3 WORLD Dance is an important part of South Korean WORLD OF DANCE culture. Here are three traditional dances. BUCHAECHUM is a fan dance. Dancers hold big BIKEWORLDTRAVEL/GETTY IMAGES fans with flowers on them. They wave and turn the fans. They wear colorful clothing called hanbok. NONGAK is a type of Korean music and dance. Performers spin in circles. They play drums and use hand gongs. This dance was originally done by farmers. PIXCOLO/GETTY IMAGES They did it for fun after working hard. OHGOMU is a drum dance. Each performer plays five drums. Here, one ANDREAS RENTZ—GETTY IMAGES drum hangs behind. Two are on each side. Usually, the drummers are women. They wear costumes. They dance between the drums. TIME for Kids Edition 2 (ISSN 2156-9169) is published weekly and mailed monthly from October through May, except for a combined December/January issue, by Time USA, LLC. Volume #10, Issue #22. Principal Office: 3 Bryant Park, New York, NY 10036. Periodical postage paid at New York, NY, and at additional mailing offices. © 2020 Time USA, LLC. All rights reserved. Reproduction whole or in part without written permission is prohibited. Subscribers: If the postal authorities alert us that your magazine is undeliverable, we have no obligation unless we receive a corrected address within two years. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to TIME for Kids, P.O. Box 37508 Boone, IA 50037-0508. Subscription queries: 877-604-8017. TIME for Kids is a registered trademark at Time USA, LLC. For international licensing and syndication requests, please email syndication@time.com. GET MORE AT TIMEFORKIDS.COM. 4 Time for Kids April 2020 Please recycle this magazine..
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