Former UNGA Secy General Ban Ki Moon praises BTS for spreading Korean culture at the Korean Studies Conference held in Stanford

Very much deserved of high praise. Congrats to BTS

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Especially when we see how many of their countrymen treat them so unfairly and do not pay them their due.

I have seen Japanese people praise and celebrate BTS more than Koreans.

Korea has actually done nothing for BTS for how much BTS have done for their country. Ungrateful and undeserving.

BTS deserves this praise and even more

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Of course many Koreans do such as Ban Ki Moon, but the way they have been treated over the enlistment issue these past few months is just leaving a very bad taste in my mouth.

It seems like for years now they've often been treated more respectfully abroad than at home and their impact has been acknowledged abroad in a way that SK was slow to catch up with (and still hasn'tfully caught up with). I recall conversations about this 4 or 5 years ago, as well.