south korea pop band BTS won online reader’s poll for TIME ‘Person of the Year 2018’.
South Korean pop group BTS has won the online reader’s poll for TIME ‘Person of the Year 2018’.
BTS — which stands for ‘Bangtan Sonyeondan’ or ‘Beyond the Scene’ — garnered over 15 per cent of the vote.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in finised second with 5 per cent votes, followed by former US President Barack Obama with three percent votes
BTS, consists of singers RM, Jin, Suga, j-hope, Jimin, V and Jungkook
Person of the Year (called Man of the Year or Woman of the Year until 1999) is an annual issue of the United States news magazine Time that features and profiles a person, a group, an idea, or an object that "for better or for worse... has done the most to influence the events of the year".
The tradition of selecting a "Man of the Year" began in 1927, with Time editors contemplating the news makers of the years.
Multiple named people
Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mei-ling, President and First Lady of China (1937)
William Anders, Frank Borman and Jim Lovell, crew of Apollo 8 (1968)
Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, political allies (1972)
Ronald Reagan and Yuri Andropov, Cold War rivals (1983)
Nelson Mandela and F.W. de Klerk; Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin, political leaders leading peace negotiations (1993)
Bill Clinton and Ken Starr, key figures in the Clinton impeachment (1998)
Cynthia Cooper, Coleen Rowley and Sherron Watkins, whistleblowers (2002)
Bill Gates, Melinda Gates and Bono, philanthropists (2005)
Classes of unnamed people
The American fighting-man (1950)
The Hungarian freedom fighter (1956)
U.S. Scientists (1960)
The Inheritor (1966)
Middle Americans (1969)
American women (1975)
The American soldier (2003)
You (2006)
The Protester (2011)
Ebola fighters (2014)
The Silence Breakers (2017)
Inanimate objects
The Computer (Machine of the Year, 1982)
The Endangered Earth (Planet of the Year, 1988)
South Korean pop group BTS has won the online reader’s poll for TIME ‘Person of the Year 2018’.
BTS — which stands for ‘Bangtan Sonyeondan’ or ‘Beyond the Scene’ — garnered over 15 per cent of the vote.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in finised second with 5 per cent votes, followed by former US President Barack Obama with three percent votes
BTS, consists of singers RM, Jin, Suga, j-hope, Jimin, V and Jungkook
Person of the Year (called Man of the Year or Woman of the Year until 1999) is an annual issue of the United States news magazine Time that features and profiles a person, a group, an idea, or an object that "for better or for worse... has done the most to influence the events of the year".
The tradition of selecting a "Man of the Year" began in 1927, with Time editors contemplating the news makers of the years.
Multiple named people
Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mei-ling, President and First Lady of China (1937)
William Anders, Frank Borman and Jim Lovell, crew of Apollo 8 (1968)
Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, political allies (1972)
Ronald Reagan and Yuri Andropov, Cold War rivals (1983)
Nelson Mandela and F.W. de Klerk; Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin, political leaders leading peace negotiations (1993)
Bill Clinton and Ken Starr, key figures in the Clinton impeachment (1998)
Cynthia Cooper, Coleen Rowley and Sherron Watkins, whistleblowers (2002)
Bill Gates, Melinda Gates and Bono, philanthropists (2005)
Classes of unnamed people
The American fighting-man (1950)
The Hungarian freedom fighter (1956)
U.S. Scientists (1960)
The Inheritor (1966)
Middle Americans (1969)
American women (1975)
The American soldier (2003)
You (2006)
The Protester (2011)
Ebola fighters (2014)
The Silence Breakers (2017)
Inanimate objects
The Computer (Machine of the Year, 1982)
The Endangered Earth (Planet of the Year, 1988)
