SEOUL -- BTS was the talk of the town on Korean media over the weekend. No surprises there, but the fashion in which it made headlines was a little unusual -- it made headlines by making headlines in other countries. More specifically, it was by included in Rolling Stone's "10 New Artists You Need To Know." The Rolling Stone-BTS story was one of the most read K-pop stories Saturday, evident by the frequency the search term "BTS" appeared on Korea's most popular search engine Naver. This sentiment is apparent in the self-derogatory term "guk-ppong," a combination of the Korean word for country (guk) and a Korean slang term for drugs (ppong).

Source: The China Post July 24, 2017 07:41 UTC