{"id":748757,"date":"2026-06-20T04:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T04:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/748757\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T04:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T04:32:10","slug":"bts-rm-named-first-global-ambassador-of-natl-museum-of-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/748757\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS&#8217; RM named first global ambassador of Nat&#8217;l Museum of Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/84bdacb4-3f91-4104-b91a-8d826be584fc.jpg\" style=\"height: auto; aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1280; width: 100%\" alt=\"RM, right, the leader of K-pop supergroup BTS, shakes hands with You Hong-june, director of the National Museum of Korea, after being named global ambassador of the museum, in this photo provided by You's office, Saturday. Yonhap\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>RM, right, the leader of K-pop supergroup BTS, shakes hands with You Hong-june, director of the National Museum of Korea, after being named global ambassador of the museum, in this photo provided by You&#8217;s office, Saturday. Yonhap<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">RM, the leader of K-pop supergroup BTS, has been named the first global ambassador of the National Museum of Korea to help promote the country&#8217;s cultural heritage around the world, the museum said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The singer, whose real name is Kim Nam-joon, was named in recognition of his longstanding interest in Korean traditional culture and art, as well as his efforts to support the preservation of cultural heritage, according to the museum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">RM donated 100 million won ($65,231) each in 2021 and 2022 to the Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Foundation to support the preservation and restoration of Korean cultural assets abroad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">An avid art collector, RM is set to hold a special exhibition of works from his personal collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The singer will participate in various promotional activities for the museum and help introduce Korean history and traditional culture to global audiences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">&#8220;I will do my best to help more people appreciate the beauty and value of our cultural heritage,&#8221; RM said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">You Hong-june, director of the museum, expressed hope that RM would help raise the museum&#8217;s global profile. &#8220;It is meaningful to share the beauty of our cultural heritage with the world together with RM.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RM, right, the leader of K-pop supergroup BTS, shakes hands with You Hong-june, director of the National Museum&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":748758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-748757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}