Jungkook Breaks Multiple Records During The Live Performance At The Fifa World Cup 2022
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For the last five days, every major news channel in South Korea has been raving about Jungkook’s outstanding performance at the World Cup opening ceremony. Thousand of articles have been written and all major news channels have been discussing Jungkook’s performance. Upon his return to Korea after his historic performance, Korean media hailed Jungkook as a “National Treasure” for his phenomenal live performance and achievement. BTS JungKook – Return of the national treasure – is the headline in South Korean media. KooKoo’s presence is once again felt in Korea, World-class Jungkook is Korea’s national representative” and The world-class that graced the opening ceremony wrote one Twitter fan.
South Korean Medias are headlining JungKook as “BTS Jungkook – The national treasure has come back. Korea returns to the state of enjoying KooKoo’s presence again”, “World-Class Jungkook Is Korea’s National Representative Too”, “The world-class that graced the opening ceremony”🥺 pic.twitter.com/m1dH8CmlIB
— Jungkook SNS✨️ (@Jungkook_SNS) November 21, 2022
Jungkook’s performance of “Dreamers” was highly rated by KBS news and it led to his being rediscovered as a solo artist and opening up new horizons for Kpop and the world to meet. ‘Dreamers’ was a huge success and Jungkook’s world cup performance was highly praised. A lot of people are remarking about Dreamers, saying that it has explosive popularity and is topping all of the main charts throughout the world. Korean SNS platforms and search engines were buzzing about Jungkook’s World Cup opening performance after he performed.
S Korea’s Top 2 national television channels KBS and MBC started their prime time news of last night by highlighting Jungkook’s performance as the main feature of their first headline which was about World Cup. KBS highlighted that Jungkook is the first Korean singer who sang pic.twitter.com/gzC1vAFdNx
— Golden Times✨ (@JJK_Times) November 22, 2022
BTS Jungkook Is Being Praised By South Korean Media About His Performance Of Dreamers At FIFA Opening Ceremony Calling Him A National Treasure
Through Jungkook, every Korean will remember this year’s FIFA World Cup regardless of the South Korean team’s performance. The 25-year-old became the first person from the country to perform at the event. One Korean channel fl ashed the headline: The national treasure has returned when Jungkook returned to Korea and performed Dreamers live. Leading media outlets hailed Jungkook as a “National Treasure.” Korea is once again able to enjoy KooKoo’s presence. A performance by Jungkook was also broadcast on KBS and MBC. Not only did he put on an incredible show, but he also earned a higher level of credibility as an international artist due to his incredible performance. His song debuted on the global music charts with a record-breaking debut.
#Jungkook breaks his own record as #Dreamers becomes the Longest-Charting Song at #1 by a K-Pop Soloist on #WorldwideiTunes this decade (6 days), surpassing #StayAlive! He now holds the Top 2 Longest Charting Songs at #1 by a K-Pop Soloist this decade!💪🥇🇰🇷👨🎤📈1⃣🌎🎵✖️6⃣🕛🐐👑💜 pic.twitter.com/d86qkAmNqv
— World Music Awards (@WORLDMUSICAWARD) November 26, 2022
The incredible performance of Jungkook was also praised in the FM Standard and TBN radio shows. Before the South Korean-Uruguay game, KBS played Jungkook’s song Dreamers to introduce their team. Almost a week has passed since Dreamers was released. Jungkook and Qatari singer Fahad Al Kubaisi performed the song at the FIFA World Cup, making it the fastest FIFA World Cup song to reach No. 1 on the iTunes Charts in the US. Only two hours and eleven minutes after its release, the song achieved this feat. As soon as Dreamers was released, BTS’ golden maknae was praised by ARMYs all over the world, members of the band, and even Jordan’s Crown Prince, Hussein bin Abdullah shared a video of the live performance on his Instagram account.