Stream KBS Music Bank Live On Twitter Every Week!
Support your favourite K-pop bands and tune into their exciting comeback stages in real time as Twitter teams up with South Korea’s largest broadcaster KBS! Popular national Korean music programme ‘Music Bank’ will stream live weekly through Twitter every Friday from 17:00 to 18:30 KST (03:00 to 04:30 EST) starting on 10 November 2017.
For the first KBS ‘Music Bank’ livestream on Twitter this Friday, the exciting artist line-up includes K-pop performances from Super Junior, Twice (@JYPETWICE), Monsta X (@OfficialMonstaX), Seventeen (@pledis_17), ASTRO (@offclASTRO) and many more.
KBS ‘Music Bank’ will be available for logged-in and logged-out users on Twitter and connected devices globally. Fans will be able to watch the free livestream at KBS.twitter.com as well as through Music Bank’s official account (@KBSWorldTV) on Twitter. Besides the 90-minute livestream on Twitter every Friday, @KBSWorldTV will also Tweet out video highlight clips of the Music Bank show every week to reach the international Kpop community in different timezones around the world.
READY TO BE ENTERTAINED EVERY WEEK WITH THE HOTTEST #KPOP STARS? #MusicBank? streaming LIVE ONLY ON https://t.co/4DUI9xWWmY every FRIDAY at 5PM(KST)! #goLIVE
— KBS World TV (@KBSWorldTV) November 10, 2017
Through this global live streaming partnership between Twitter and KBS World TV, millions of K-pop fans on Twitter will now be able to watch popular K-pop groups such as BTS (@BTS_twt) and EXO (@weareoneEXO) perform their latest hits live from the ‘Music Bank’ stage. Bringing even more exclusive real-time content onto Twitter, this live stream highlights how Twitter is a great way to see what’s happening in the world of K-pop and to
talk about it with other K-pop fans worldwide.
Commenting on the partnership with Twitter, Director of KBS World TV, Yonghun Choi shared, “The number of overseas K-pop fans who are eager to watch ‘Music Bank’ in real time is increasing. We decided to partner with Twitter as they are an active global live streaming platform with a strong K-pop fan community, and we look forward to expanding our K-pop fan base and be able to reach them worldwide through this partnership.”
Global Contents Partnerships Lead of Twitter Korea, YeonJeong Kim said, “Global Live Partnership between KBS World and Twitter will provide opportunities for global users to enjoy K-POP live contents and also provide advertisers with live marketing opportunities to communicate with users in real time.”
To stay tuned to the latest K-pop hits and catch performances by your favourite K-pop groups at KBS ‘Music Bank’ on Twitter, follow @KBSWorldTV or look up the official hashtag #MusicBank for the latest updates about KBS’ weekly national Korean music programme.
