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BIGBANG’s Taeyang named as honorary ambassador for Pyeongchang

Posted : 2017-06-21 16:11 | Updated : 2017-06-21 16:11
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BIGBANG member Taeyang promised to compose an Olympic song after he was appointed as an honorary ambassador for next year’s Winter Olympics in the eastern ski resort of Pyeongchang.

The popular K-pop singer said a song would be released before November to promote Pyeongchang which will host South Korea’s first Winter Olympics from February 9 to 25.

“Because my vocation is a singer, I will promote the Pyeongchang Olympics through music,” he said at a ceremony in Seoul. He picked figure skating and curling as favorite winter sports and vowed to support teen figure skater, Cha Jun-hwan.

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SEOUL, June 21 (Yonhap) — Taeyang, a member of the popular K-pop boy band BIGBANG, was appointed as an honorary ambassador for the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics on Wednesday.

Taeyang, 29, joins actors Lee Min-ho and Kim Woo-bin as “hallyu” stars tasked with extolling the virtues of South Korea’s first Winter Games.

PyeongChang 2018 will take place from Feb. 9 to 25 next year in PyeongChang, some 180 kilometers east of Seoul, and its neighboring sub-host cities in Gangwon Province.

Taeyang said he’s going to compose a promotional song on the Olympics.

“Since I am a recording artist, I’ll try to promote the PyeongChang Winter Olympics through music,” he said at a ceremony in Seoul introducing him as the honorary ambassador. “I’ll write a song about the PyeongChang Olympics before November and hopefully a lot of people will be able to enjoy it.”

Among winter sports, Taeyang said he’s a fan of figure skating and curling, and added he’d like to see teen figure skater, Cha Jun-hwan, do well in PyeongChang next year.

BIGBANG’s Taeyang (L) holds up a card showing him as an honorary ambassador for the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, alongside Lee Hee-beom, head of PyeongChang’s organizing committee, at a ceremony in Seoul on June 21, 2017. (Yonhap) BIGBANG’s Taeyang (L) holds up a card showing him as an honorary ambassador for the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, alongside Lee Hee-beom, head of PyeongChang’s organizing committee, at a ceremony in Seoul on June 21, 2017. (Yonhap)

Other honorary ambassadors for PyeongChang include former Olympic figure skating champion Kim Yu-na, alpine skiing star Lindsay Vonn, Texas Rangers outfielder Choo Shin-soo and popular soprano Sumi Jo.

BIGBANG has been an iconic K-pop act since its debut in 2006. Taeyang, like other members, has carved out a successful solo career, and has also performed in the duo GD X Taeyang with fellow BIGBANG member G-Dragon.

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