{"id":517471,"date":"2026-07-09T11:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T11:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/517471\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T11:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T11:34:08","slug":"bts-member-v-is-first-male-k-celeb-with-75m-instagram-followers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/517471\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS member V is first male K-celeb with 75m Instagram followers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">SEOUL &#8211; South Korean singer V amassed 75 million followers through his Instagram account as of July 7, a first for a South Korean male celebrity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The member of K-pop boy band BTS has the second-most followers among male pop stars after Canadian singer Justin Bieber.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">V, whose real name is Kim Tae-hyung, opened the account in December 2021, as did the rest of the six BTS members.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The 30-year-old surpassed 1 million followers in 43 minutes and 10 million in less than five hours. Both achievements earned him Guinness World Records, which he still holds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">V attended Celine\u2019s spring\/summer 2027 menswear show in Paris in June\u00a0during the European leg of BTS\u2019 tour Arirang,\u00a0generating about 22 million social media interactions in 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The artiste will return to the French capital on July 17 and 18, where the septet are slated to have their last show in the region, before moving on to stops in North America. THE KOREA HERALD\/ASIA NEWS NETWORK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEOUL &#8211; South Korean singer V amassed 75 million followers through his Instagram account as of July 7,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-517471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}