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BTS's AMA Triumph: Reactions from a Korean Online Community
An expert who often writes about culture posted about BTSโs appearance at the American Music Awards on the website I frequently visit, whose members are mostly middle-aged. The title of the post roughly translates to: โBTS Makes New History in American Pop Culture by Winning the AMA Grand Prize.โ
The post explains, based on the writerโs knowledge of the entertainment industry, how the American Music Awards, one of the three major American pop music award ceremonies alongside the Grammy Awards and the Billboard Music Awards, appeared unusually determined to secure BTS for this yearโs ceremony.
He points out that the event was held in Las Vegas at the exact same time BTS happened to be in the city for their concert tour. Even more telling, one of the groupโs off days between concerts lined up perfectly with the awards ceremony itself. He sees this as strong evidence that the organizers intentionally planned the event around BTSโs schedule.
To add my own two cents, there is some basis for that argument. BTS announced the dates and locations for their ARIRANG tour on January 13, while CBS revealed the May 25, 2026 AMA date on March 10. The timing does raise eyebrows.
What surprised the writer most was that BTS did not perform live on stage that night. Instead, the AMAs used concert footage in place of a live performance, while the other artists still appeared beneath the bright stage lights and performed in person. He argues that this was nearly unheard of for one of Americaโs three major music award shows.
To him, it felt almost as though the organizers were saying, โPlease just come to the ceremony. We will make every accommodation possible.โ That is how extraordinary the situation appeared from his perspective.
For the writer, the broader conclusion is clear. The way the AMAs treated BTS suggests that the groupโs influence and stature within the American music industry may be far greater than what is typically conveyed in Korean news coverage.
It was read by over 7,000 members, more than most of the other posts on that day, and here are some of the replies people left below the post:
โ๋ ์๋์ค๋ฝ๊ณ ํ๋ณตํ๋ค์.โ
(โThis makes me feel so proud and happy.โ)
โ๋ด๋ด BTS๋ฅผ ์ผ๋ง๋ ์ธ๊ธํ๋์ง. BTS ์ญ์ธ ์ฑ๊ณตํด์ ์์ฒญ ์ข์๋ ๋ณด๋๋ผ๊ณ ์.โ
(โThey kept mentioning BTS throughout the entire ceremony. It really seemed like they were thrilled they succeeded in bringing BTS in.โ)
โ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ์ธ๋ก ๋ง ์ธ๋ฉด.โ
(โOnly our own media keeps overlooking them.โ)
โ๋ํ๋ฏผ๊ตญ์ ๋น๋๋ ๊ทผ์ฌํ ์ฌ๋๋ค โBTS.โโ
(โBTS, truly wonderful people who shine brightly for South Korea.โ)
โ์ด๋ฒ ์จ๋ฒ ๋ชฝ๋ ์์!โ
(โI absolutely love every song on this album!โ)
โ๊ณต์ฐ ํ๋ฌ์ด ๋์ผ๋ ํ์ด๋ค ๋ชจ๋ ์ ๊ฐ์ด๊ฐ ์ํ๋ค ํ ์ ๋๋ก ๋ผ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ๊ณ ์๋๋ฐ ์ผ์ ์ด ๋๋ฌด ํ์ดํธํด์ ์ด์ฉ๋ ์ถ์์ด์. ๊ทผ๋ฐ ๊ณต์ฐ ์์ ๋์ฒด๋ ์ถฉ๊ฒฉ์ ์ด์๊ณ ์์์ ์ธํฐ๋ทฐ ๋ณด๋๋ฐ ๋๋ ์๋์ค๋ฝ๋๋ผ๊ตฌ์.โ
(โTheyโve been performing for over a month now, to the point the members were saying even their shins hurt from pushing themselves so hard, so I was worried the schedule was becoming too intense. But replacing the live stage with concert footage was honestly shocking, and watching their interviews at the ceremony made me feel incredibly proud.โ)
โ์ ๋๋ฐ ๊ฒฝ์ฌ์ ๋๋ค. BTS ์ ๋ง ์๋์ค๋ฝ์ต๋๋ค. ์ ์ง์ง ๋๋ฐ์ด๋ค. ์ด๋ฉ๋ฆฌ์นธ๋ฎค์ง์ด์์ฆ ๋์ ๊ตญ๋ฝ์ด ์ฐจ์ค๋ฅธ๋ค.โ
(โWow, this is huge news. BTS makes me so proud. Seriously unbelievable. Seeing them win the grand prize at the American Music Awards fills me with national pride.โ)
โBTS๊ฐ ๊ทธ ๊ฑฐ๋ํ ์ฝ์ํธ์ฅ ๋งค๋ฒ ๊ฐ๋ ์ฑ์ฐ๋๊ฑฐ ๋ณด๋ฉด ๊ฒฝ์ด๋กญ๋๊ตฐ์. ๋ฉ์์ฝ ๊ณต์ฐ๋ ์์ฒญ๋ฌ๋๋ฐ ๋งคํ ๊ณต์ฐ๋ง๋ค ์คํ ํผ๋์ ๋ผ์ค๋ฒ ๊ฐ์ค ๊ฑฐ๋ ๊ณต์ฐ์ฅ ๊ฐ๋ ์ฑ์ด๊ฑฐ ๋ณด๊ณ ์ด๊ฑด ์ด๋๋ ๋ ๋ฒ์ด๋ค ์ถ๋๋ง์.โ
(โItโs astonishing seeing BTS fill those enormous stadiums every single time. The Mexico concerts were massive too, but watching them completely fill huge venues in Stanford and Las Vegas over and over again made me realize they are on another level.โ)
โ๋ฒ ๊ฐ์ค ์จ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ BTS๋ก ๋๋ฐฐ๋ ๊ฑด ๋ค ์์์ฃ ? ์ง์ง ํต์ํผ์คํ๋ ์ด๋ฐ ์ํผ์คํ๊ฐ ์์ด์.โ
(โYou all saw how the entire city of Vegas was covered with BTS everywhere, right? Even among global superstars, thereโs no superstar quite like this.โ)
โ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ์์ด๋ค ๋๋ฌด ์๋์ค๋ฝ์ต๋๋ค! ํฅํด๋ผ ๋ฐฉํ! ๊ฑด๊ฐํ๊ฒ ํฌ์ด ํ์.โ
(โIโm so proud of our boys! May BTS continue to thrive! Letโs finish the tour safely and in good health.โ)
โ20์ธ๊ธฐ์๋ ๋นํ์ฆ 21์ธ๊ธฐ์๋ BTS๊ฐ ๋ ์ ๋โ
(โThe Beatles were the legends of the 20th century. BTS are the legends of the 21st.โ)
โํ๊ตญ์์ ๋๋ฌด ํ๋ํด์ ๊ฑฑ์ ํ๋๋ฐ ๊ธ๋ก๋ฒ๋ก๋ ๋ ์ฑ์ฅํ๋ค๋. ๋ ์ฌ๋ผ๊ฐ ์ ์๋ ์ถ์๋๋ฐ ์ง๋ถ์ ๋ซ์.โ
(โI worried because they are so underappreciated in Korea, but globally theyโve grown even more. I wondered if they could rise any higher, and instead they shattered the roof.โ)
If you told debut namgi that Busta Rhymes will hand them Artist of The Year, on the american music awards, and chase after them for a photo manifesting a collab together, they would have sent you to a psychiatrist
thatโs not agust d or suga thatโs gloss the 17yo rapper from Daegu who once dreamed of becoming a great rapper. look how giddy he is because he met his fave
Queen Latifah called BTS pretty, Ludacris and GloRilla presented their Song of the Summer Award, Busta Rhymes presented their Artist of the Year award and then chased them down for a picture and to say he wanted to collab with them.
Baby Bangtan would be in shock.
can you imagine hip-hop royalty like busta rhymes, queen latifah and ludacris standing on an international stage praising and handing awards to seven korean boys who started from hip-hop? well you canโt but bts can
Gloss and Runch Randa probably wouldnโt believe you if you told them theyโd be taking a picture with Busta Rhymes after winning Artist of the Year at the AMAs