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NewTokyoOlympicPresident,
UntactK-popinthe
Hashimoto
GlobalMarket
Seiko Hashimoto, former
ⓒReuters
ⓒInstagram@blackpinkofficial
Olympics Minister and a
seven-time Olympian for
cycling and speed skating,
has been appointed as the
nextTokyo2020president.
Yoshiro Mori, 83, resigned
after making a sexist
Regardless of the pandemic and its limit
comment that women talk too much. He said “meetings with lots
for live concerts, K-pop celebrities continue
of women take long” and as the number of female board members
to go viral internationally. Last year in Oct,
increase, “Make sure their speaking time is restricted. They have
BTS streamed concert achieved 993,00 ticket
difficulty finishing, which is annoying.” Mori later resigned and
holders from 191 countries, estimating $43
apologizedforhiscomment.TheJapaneseOlympicCommitteeboard
million.BigHit,OnFeb.18BTS’sagency,Big
currentlyhas24members,fiveofwhomarewomen.
Hit Entertainment announced that their 2017
Moriwasoriginallyreplacedbyanotheroctogenarianmaleleaderbut
released song “DNA” achieved 1.2 billion
itwassoondismissedafterfacingabacklash.
viewsonYouTube.
The K-pop sensation continues as other
large entertainment companies also come on
boardwithonlineconcerts.SMEntertainment
held a free online concert “SMTOWN Live”
Clubhouse,theChangingSocial
on Jan.1 to give comfort to those fighting
against the COVID-19. YG Entertainment’s
MediaPlatform
BLACKPINK, had their first live stream
concertinJan..Theirsong“DduDuDduDu”
the most-watched music video on YouTube
Clubhouse’s
records1.4billionviews.
ⓒQuartz
popularity has
been recently
on the rise.
BitcoinSurpass
L a u n c h e d
early in 2020,
$50,000
Clubhouse
consists of
virtual rooms
where people
OnFeb.16theworld’slargestcryptocurrency
can talk to each
Bitcoinsurgespast$50,000forthefirsttime.
other?byvoice.Theapprecentlygainedglobalpopularityafterhigh-
Earlier in the month, Tesla’s decision to add
profile guests such as Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and more made
$1.5billioninBitcointoitsbalancesheetand
appearances. Musk’s appearance on the social audio app crashed
accepting it as a new method of payment was
Clubhouseserversbustingtheroomlimitof5,000concurrentlisteners.
amajorcatalysttothelatestjump.
The specialty of the app is that it can only be entered by an invite
Bitcoin’s increase in value continues the
of an insider, making the platform closed. Although the app is only
heated debate questioning whether it is a
availableoniPhones,sofarthereareabout8millionglobaldownloads
stableformofcurrencyorsimplyabigbubble.
ofClubhouse.Clubhousegrewfrom3.5milliondownloadsasofFeb.1
to8.1millionbyFeb.16,2021.
soohyun1207@hufs.ac.kr
5
MARCH 2021

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