{"id":915172,"date":"2026-09-30T09:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T09:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/915172\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T09:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T09:42:10","slug":"bts-rm-donates-70000-to-national-museum-of-korea-for-artifact-acquisition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/915172\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS&#8217; RM donates $70,000 to National Museum of Korea for artifact acquisition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/7795b457-633a-4521-a7a2-2727dc5ee8d6.jpg\" style=\"height: auto; aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1280; width: 100%\" alt=\"RM, right, the leader of K-pop group BTS, shakes hands with You Hong-june, director of the National Museum of Korea, after being named global ambassador of the museum  in Seoul, June 19. Courtesy of National Museum of Korea\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>RM, right, the leader of K-pop group BTS, shakes hands with You Hong-june, director of the National Museum of Korea, after being named global ambassador of the museum  in Seoul, June 19. Courtesy of National Museum of Korea<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">BTS leader RM has donated 100 million won ($70,000) to support acquisitions at the National Museum of Korea, extending his long-standing patronage of Korean art and culture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The museum said Wednesday that RM, whose legal name is Kim Nam-joon, made the contribution on Tuesday through the National Museum of Korea Foundation. The funds will be used to acquire objects for the museum\u2019s collection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Appointed as the museum\u2019s global ambassador in June, RM said he was pleased to offer support in the role.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">\u201cI am happy to be able to support the museum as its global ambassador,\u201d RM said. \u201cI will continue to work with the museum to promote it and our culture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The museum said it expects RM\u2019s continued support of the arts and culture to draw greater public interest in Korea\u2019s cultural heritage and museums, adding that it will respond with stronger exhibitions and programs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Known as an avid art lover and collector, RM has supported cultural institutions and built a collection focused largely on Korean modern and contemporary art.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">His collection will take center stage in San Francisco this week. \u201cRM x SFMOMA: Between You and Me\u201d opens Saturday at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, bringing together 140 works from his collection and others from museum holdings. The exhibition runs through Feb. 7, 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RM, right, the leader of K-pop group BTS, shakes hands with You Hong-june, director of the National Museum&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":915173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-915172","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\/915172","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=915172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/915173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}