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The free online concert, SMTOWN LIVE- Culture Humanity sets record-breaking achievement as it wrapped up with 35.8M live viewers around the world!
As the world celebrated New Year s day, the global online music festival held by SM Entertainment and its artists called SMTOWN LIVE - Culture Humanity heated K-pop fans around the world, as it was broadcast free of charge around the globe via various platforms including Naver V LIVE, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and TikTok from 1 p.m. KST on Jan. 1.
Earlier then, reports confirmed that the concert recorded about 35.8million live viewers in 186 countries, the largest number of viewers in the history of Korean online concerts! The annual concert, which was held online due to the surge of coronavirus patients in Korea, once again proved just how massive the global popularity and power of SM artists are.
U.S. Passes 20 Million Cases as New Year Begins: Virus Update
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(Bloomberg) India will make vaccines free nationwide, Thailand’s capital will close entertainment venues and Hong Kong plans to roll out inoculations in February as authorities in Asia try to suppress recent outbreaks.
Sydney has mandated masks in many indoor settings as the pandemic shows no signs of slowing down in 2021. Tokyo’s governor is urging Japan to declare a state of emergency while Turkey, China and Brazil became the latest nations to report infections of the new, highly transmissible virus strain.
The U.S. surpassed 20 million Covid-19 cases, a year after a mysterious pathogen first revealed itself in Wuhan, China. Vaccines remained the best hope for 2021 with the World Health Organization issuing an emergency-use designation for Pfizer Inc.’s shot.