UN invites influencers, YouTubers and anyone with fans to make speeches all the time in order to reach out more audience. The fact Kpop fans are talking about UN and its topics right now because of aespa means it’s working even if aespa isn’t the most popular group. If UN only limited their invitations they will end up with the same audience and it = less reach.
Now what aespa speech was about and its relevancy to the discussed topic is explained below:
(personally I don’t really believe in or fully understand all of the new sustainability ideas considering the wastage in kpop but what the hell do I know… it’s still better than not doing it, I guess).
e.g of sustainable development
And obviously it’s SM’s doing to accept the UN invitation or even suggest it. aespa came in as aespa the brand and its relation to metaverse ie SM’s ideas.