Laura Bicker
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Laura Bicker
@BBCLBicker
This account is no longer active. BBC China Correspondent, Beijing. Former Asia Pacific, Seoul and North America Correspondent.
Beijing
Joined January 2011
- RM from BTS: "Sometimes I was afraid of the audience. The lights were so bright I could not see the audience but they could see me... But we have this energy that we receive from our fans and that is much bigger than the fear that we have."
- Morning, @ygofficialblink will be on @BBCWorld in the next hour to tell us why they’ve decided to call for action on climate change. I will post the online version soon. It was lovely to meet Rosé, Jennie, Jisoo and Lisa.
- 380 Afghans who worked for the Korean government in Afghanistan will arrive in South Korea tomorrow according to MOFA. They will not be entering as refugees, but as people of merit to the country says the Foreign Ministry.
- Ok South Korea, here’s some really good news. Only 4 new cases of coronavirus have been reported in last 24 hours and they were all found at the airport. 0 from within the country. Let me repeat that one more time. ZERO locally transmitted COVID19 cases in last 24 hours.
- BOOM! They’ve done it. BTS become first Korean artists to top UK chart
- Wow! Fans of the South Korean pop group BTS (known as the Army) have now matched the band’s donation of $1 million to Black Lives Matter.ARMY You #MatchedAMillion💜 It's really amazing to see so many of you coming together to support #BlackLivesMatter. Thank you so much to everyone who donated, shared, used the hastag and helped by any means to make this possible!
- K-pop superstars Blackpink @ygofficialblink have emerged as the latest force in the global fight against climate change. They’ve decided to speak out just months before a major conference on climate change in UK #COP26.
- Meet 3 and half year old Anhelina. She spent 6 weeks in a bunker in the besieged city of Mariupol listening to relentless shelling. Her family counted 60-80 air strikes on some days. She’s made it to Zaporizhzhya refugee centre after travelling 2 weeks and 2 days.
- The BTS press conference venue was a secret until the YouTube feed. Fans from US, Russia, Indonesia, France, Germany and of course Korea are outside.
00:00 - When you see BTS perform you think that they are confident, assured with no doubts. Then they give honest revealing answers about how difficult this journey has been for them and the fears that they face on stage. I think this honesty is part of their global appeal.
- Good answer from BTS on whether they find the fact that they're doing things never seen before from Korean bands invigorating or intimidating: "We are standing here thanks to the road made by many artists who came before us."
- CALLING ALL BLINKS: CLIMATE ACTION IN YOUR AREA! #COP26 To all BLINKs across the planet. WATCH our video with @UKinKorea on our journey to learn more about #ClimateChange ahead of next year’s UN Climate Summit in UK @COP26. #ClimateActionInYourArea #TogetherForOurPlanet
00:00 - Replying to @BBCLBicker"We continue to hold on to those fears, but this is more important and precious to me to be able to control the dark things or feelings that we have."
