BTS is a Kpop boy group that spreads good influence everywhere in various ways including campaign speech donations. At the UN General assembly in 2018, they made a comment asking to love themselves and have a voice to make the younger generation feel self-esteem, and to ban discrimination and violence.  Through a campaign that aims to be me motivate the younger generation, charitable BTS members are sending a moving message to the world.

Charitable BTS LOVE MYSELF campaign support UNICEF’s #ENDviolence campaign.

A video message created by charitable BTS K-pop boy group for tomorrow’s generation across the world as we face this COVID-19 pandemic together.

This year has been hard on young people. Peoples’ lives turned upside down. What seemed normal and familiar is now strange and new and feelings are probably hard to explain. Things might not feel normal right now anywhere in the world but this time can use to think about how we reimagine and build a better world.

In the 75th UN general assembly charitable BTS Kpop group leader RM and other charitable BTS members deliver their valuable speech as follows;

“Two years ago here, I asked your name. I urged you to let me hear your voice.  And I let myself be filled with imagination. As a boy from the small city of Islan in Korea, as a young man standing at the United Nations General Assembly, as a global citizen of this world, I imagined the limitless possibilities before all of us, and my heart beating with excitement. But COVID-19 was beyond my imagination. Our world tour was totally canceled, all our plans went away, and I become alone. I looked up but couldn’t see the stars at night. I felt hopeless. Everything fell apart. I could only look outside my window. I could only go to my room. 

Yesterday, I was singing and dancing with fans around the world. and now my world had shrunk to a room. And then, my friends took my hand. We comforted each other and talked about what we could do together. Life becomes simple, maybe for the first time. It was a precious time, unwanted but welcome. I’m used to an entire world shrinking in an instant. When I’m on tour, I stand in bright lights and loud cheers, but at night back in my room, my world becomes only a few paces wide. The room itself was small, but my world and our world reached far wide.

In this world, we had our instruments, our phones, and our fans. But this time it was different. It felt lonelier and smaller.  Why? I thought for a long time. I thought, maybe because it becomes harder to imagine.  I was frustrated and depressed. But I took notes, wrote songs, and thought about who I was. I thought, ‘If I gave up here, then I’m not the star of my life.’ This is what an awesome person would do. I don’t know who was first. We embraced all these emotions and the seven of us began to make music together. This is where the music came from, and this made us honest.

Our lives are unpredictable. We don’t know all these answers. I knew where I wanted to get. But not how I could get there. All I did to get there was trust ourselves, do my best, and love what I do. I found again the people I love. The other members, my family, my friends. I found the music I love, and I found myself. Thinking about the future and trying hard are all important. But cherishing yourself, encouraging yourself, and keeping yourself happy is the most important. In a world of uncertainty, ‘we must cherish the importance of ‘me,’ ‘you’ and ‘us.’ 

That’s the message of ‘LOVE MYSELF’ we talked about for three years, It’s the message in the lyrics of our song ‘Dynamite.‘

“I’m diamond, you know I glow up”

One night we were working together, RM said he couldn’t see the stars anymore. But I saw my face reflected in the window. I saw all of our faces. Our songs become the stories we wanted to tell each other. We live in uncertainty, but really, nothing’s changed. If there’s something I can do, if our voices can give strength to people, then that’s what we want and that’s what we’ll keep on doing. 

When I start to feel lost, I remember my face in the window, as Jungkook said. I remember the world I spoke here two years ago.

“Love yourself, speak yourself”

Now more than ever, we must try to remember who we are, and face who we are. We must try to love ourselves, and imagine the future. Charitable BTS will be there with you. Our tomorrow may be dark, painful, difficult. We might stumble or fall down. Stars shine brightest when the night is darkest. If the stars are hidden, we’ll let moonlight guide us. If even the moon is dark, let our faces be the light that helps us find our way. Let’s reimagine our world. We are huddled together tired, but let’s dream again. Let’s dream about a future when our worlds can break out of our small rooms again.

It might feel like it’s always night and we’ll always be alone. But the night is always the darkest before the first light of dawn. Life goes on. Let’s live on.