>Group Seventeen member Seungkwan has once again practiced sharing for his hometown Jeju.
>According to his agency Pledis Entertainment on the 11th, Seungkwan donated 20 million won to the National Heritage Administration and the National Trust for Cultural Heritage to protect Jeju’s precious heritage. The donation will be used to preserve and process the Jeju 4.3 Incident Records, which were registered as UNESCO’s Memory of the World in April.
>Seungkwan, a native of Jeju, has been practicing sharing for his hometown in various ways. In November of last year, when he was appointed as Jeju’s public relations ambassador, he donated a hometown love donation through the Jeju Provincial Office to help protect the southern right whale, which is an internationally endangered species.
>Seungkwan also garnered attention when he announced that Jeju was the first region in the world to be designated in three natural environment categories by UNESCO at the same time when he attended the ’13th UNESCO Youth Forum’ held at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France in 2023. SEVENTEEN, which he is a part of, was the first K-pop artist to be exclusively assigned a special session at this event, and was appointed as UNESCO’s first Youth Goodwill Ambassador last year, taking the lead in social contribution activities.
>Meanwhile, SEVENTEEN released their fifth full-length album “HAPPY BURSTDAY” on the 26th of last month, the 10th anniversary of their debut. The new album is receiving rave reviews from global music fans, recording the highest initial sales (albums sold in the first week after release) of any K-pop album released this year and entering the Billboard 200 (June 14th) at number 2.
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>Group Seventeen member Seungkwan has once again practiced sharing for his hometown Jeju.
>According to his agency Pledis Entertainment on the 11th, Seungkwan donated 20 million won to the National Heritage Administration and the National Trust for Cultural Heritage to protect Jeju’s precious heritage. The donation will be used to preserve and process the Jeju 4.3 Incident Records, which were registered as UNESCO’s Memory of the World in April.
>Seungkwan, a native of Jeju, has been practicing sharing for his hometown in various ways. In November of last year, when he was appointed as Jeju’s public relations ambassador, he donated a hometown love donation through the Jeju Provincial Office to help protect the southern right whale, which is an internationally endangered species.
>Seungkwan also garnered attention when he announced that Jeju was the first region in the world to be designated in three natural environment categories by UNESCO at the same time when he attended the ’13th UNESCO Youth Forum’ held at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France in 2023. SEVENTEEN, which he is a part of, was the first K-pop artist to be exclusively assigned a special session at this event, and was appointed as UNESCO’s first Youth Goodwill Ambassador last year, taking the lead in social contribution activities.
>Meanwhile, SEVENTEEN released their fifth full-length album “HAPPY BURSTDAY” on the 26th of last month, the 10th anniversary of their debut. The new album is receiving rave reviews from global music fans, recording the highest initial sales (albums sold in the first week after release) of any K-pop album released this year and entering the Billboard 200 (June 14th) at number 2.