Gwangju City Creates 'HOPE WORLD' Sculpture Featuring BTS J-Hope Fan Messages

Chungjang-ro 'K-POP Star Street' Collects 21,800 Messages from Fans Worldwide

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Seon-gang] Gwangju Metropolitan City announced on the 27th that a sculpture called ‘HOPE WORLD,’ containing fan messages for BTS member J-Hope, will be installed.

‘HOPE WORLD’ is the title of J-Hope’s first solo mixtape (non-commercial free album), which became the first album by a Korean solo artist to enter the Billboard 200 album chart for two consecutive weeks.

Gwangju City plans to create the ‘HOPE WORLD’ J-Hope fan message sculpture on Gwangju Chungjang-ro K-POP Star Street together with BTS fans worldwide, collecting 21,800 messages by the 30th of next month.

The number of messages engraved on the sculpture symbolizes J-Hope’s birthday, February 18.

Fans can summarize their feelings for J-Hope in messages of up to 50 characters, and send them along with their name, nationality, and email. A sculptor will then engrave these messages onto the sculpture.

Currently, messages are being collected in various languages including English, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, Arabic, Italian, and Russian. Going forward, the city plans to promote message participation to domestic and international fans through social networking systems (SNS) such as Twitter and Facebook.

Gwangju City will film the process of engraving fans’ messages and release the video on YouTube. Once the sculpture is completed, an event inviting fans who sent messages to Gwangju is also planned.

The sculpture is expected to be completed around November, and its appearance can be viewed on the city’s official website.

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