BTS, the Korean pop trio, met with US President Joe Biden in the White House. President Biden expressed gratitude to the band for their visit to the White House.
“Thank you for dropping by the White House,” Biden said on Twitter, with a photo of himself with the K-pop group.
The White House complimented BTS’s trendy, floppy-haired members as “young ambassadors who transmit a message of optimism and happiness throughout the world.”
Band members, all in their twenties and regularly seen sporting earrings and lipstick, have given a voice to a generation that is at ease with gender ambiguity.
They are credited with creating billions of dollars for the South Korean economy, and despite doing fewer performances during the epidemic, their label’s revenues increased.
Biden, the oldest person to be elected president at the age of 79, has frequently reached out to youthful celebrities and social media influencers to attempt to infuse some glitz into his team’s discourse on social and health concerns.
In ads to convince young Americans to acquire Covid-19 immunizations, they featured pop singer Olivia Rodrigo and the Jonas Brothers.