Big Hit Music, the agency of K-pop idol group BTS, confirmed that Jin will be participating in the torch relay at the Paris 2024 Olympics.
In a statement, the agency said Jin will participate in the Paris 2024 Olympic Torch Relay as a torchbearer from South Korea.
While the specific schedule is yet to be disclosed, Jin will take part in the Olympic Torch Relay to spread the message of “harmony” and “peace.”
BTS' Jin (Big Hit Music)
The Olympic torch (Picture by Paris 2024 / Costas Baltas / SIPA PRESS)
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BTS members have been touted as the 21st century pop icons, making an indelible impact in the global music scene. Beyond music, they have expanded their global influence and message of positivity through various efforts, including speaking at the UN General Assembly in 2018 and 2021, continuing the “Love Myself” campaign with UNICEF since 2017.
The torch relay for the Paris 2024 Olympics began in April in Olympia, Greece and is currently traveling through 65 territories all across France until the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games.
Jin and other torchbearers are scheduled to go across various historic sites of the host country, the agency added.
The opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympic Games will be held on July 26 at the Seine.
“For the first time in the history of the Olympic Summer Games, the Opening Ceremony will not take place in a stadium. Paris 2024 is breaking new ground by bringing sports into the city and the same will be true of the Opening Ceremony, set to be held in the heart of the city along its main artery: the Seine,” according to the Paris 2024 website.
For the Olympic torch relay, it started on April 16 with the lighting of the Olympic flame in Olympia, Greece.
The flame arrived in France on May 8. The relay will be participated in by 10,000 torchbearers. In the French territory, the relay will run for 68 days.
A total of 3,000 torchbearers will participate in team relays.
According to the Olympics website, the final torch relay, set on July 26 to 27, “will showcase Seine-Saint-Denis and Paris—two cities at the heart of these Olympic Games—to the world. Friday, 26 July will begin with a parade, as has been the case on previous days.”
“The Olympic torch will wind its way through the lively streets of Saint-Denis, passing the Basilica of Saint-Denis (the necropolis of many kings of France) and then the Pleyel district, built around the central railway station serving the whole of eastern Paris. The Olympic torch will then make its way to the heart of the Olympic Village and be admired by many of the athletes, who will be able to immortalize the moment just hours before the Opening Ceremony of the Games,” it added.
The schedule added that “the Olympic torch will then cross the canals between Seine-Saint-Denis and Paris. It will pass near the Olympic Aquatics Centre, an infrastructure built for the Olympic Games and intended to be accessible to all following the Games. The torch will continue its journey past the Stade de France, which will host the athletics events of Paris 2024. It will then head for the Parc de la Villette, another nerve center of the event, where Club France will be based. Then it's off to the Seine for the eagerly awaited Opening Ceremony. The end of one adventure—the Olympic Torch Relay—and the start of a new one, just as rich in emotion.”