{"id":805597,"date":"2020-03-24T02:55:46","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T08:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=972026"},"modified":"2020-03-24T02:55:46","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T08:55:46","slug":"bts-launches-web-series-to-help-fans-learn-korean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/bts-launches-web-series-to-help-fans-learn-korean\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS Launches Web Series to Help Fans Learn Korean"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/shutterstock_editorial_10493834ge.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>If you\u2019re going to learn Korean, why not learn it from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/k-pop\/\" id=\"auto-tag_k-pop\" data-tag=\"k-pop\">K-Pop<\/a> group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/bts\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bts\" data-tag=\"bts\">BTS<\/a>? The band has announced they will host 30 language lessons on social media app Weverse beginning March 24th.<\/p>\n<p>Each episode will last three minutes and will focus on Korean grammar and expressions, with a lesson plan for each developed by researchers at the Korean Language Content Institute and Professor Heo Yong of the Department of Korean Education at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. The idea emerged after fans asked for the band\u2019s videos to be subtitled in English.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are only limited ways our fans could learn Korean with ease,\u201d Big Hit Entertainment founder, Bang Si-Hyuk, said in a statement. \u201cBig Hit has created Korean learning media using artist content for a more rewarding and immersive experience for our fans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The episodes are \u201cdesigned to make it easy and fun for global fans who have difficulty enjoying BTS\u2019 music and contents due to the language barrier,\u201d Big Hit noted.<\/p>\n<p>The lessons have arrived at the perfect time for fans who are stuck in the house during the COVID-19 pandemic, but the series was announced back in February. The series will reuse material from the band\u2019s reality show, <em>Run BTS!<\/em>, and from YouTube series like Bangtan Bombs and BTS Episodes. Fans can access the episodes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weverse.io\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">via Weverse<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>BTS <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/bts-cancel-map-of-the-soul-korea-shows-coronavirus-959472\/\">canceled<\/a> their Korean concerts last month due to coronavirus concerns. The string of concerts, scheduled to take place April 11th, 12th, 18th and 19th at Seoul Olympic Stadium, were intended to be the South Korean group\u2019s homecoming&nbsp;<em>Map of the Soul : 7 <\/em>shows. The album, released earlier this year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/rs-charts-top-200-bts-961225\/\">debuted at No. 1<\/a> on the RS Charts in early March.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/bts-web-series-learn-korean-972026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re going to learn Korean, why not learn it from K-Pop group BTS? The band has announced they will host 30 language lessons on social media app Weverse beginning March 24th. Each episode will last three minutes and will focus on Korean grammar and expressions, with a lesson plan for each developed by researchers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-805597","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-18 14:27:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}