Happy birthday Jungkook: BTS singer turns 26 – fans celebrate around the world with ads and charity donations

Billboards, subway stations and shopping centres around the world have been emblazoned with birthday wishes for BTS singer Jungkook, 26 on Friday

The singer, the sixth band member to release a solo single, and who sang at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, has yet to sign up for military service in South Korea

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BTS’ Jungkook, who turns 26 on Friday, has received birthday wishes from his fans around the world. Photo: Instagram/@jungkook_bighitentertainment

Published: 4:15am, 1 Sep 2023Updated: 5:05am, 1 Sep 2023

Jungkook, the youngest member of K-pop boy band BTS, turns 26 today, and his fans around the world want to make sure everyone knows it.

Fan site Jungkook Global Website has paid for a birthday message on a billboard in New York’s Times Square, while Jungkook China delivered well wishes on the screens at the COEX Media Tower in Seoul.

The singer’s Hungarian fans have lit up billboards at the Allee Shopping Centre in Budapest, while his Japanese fans did the same in Shinjuku in Tokyo. Bangkok, too, is celebrating his birthday – with a billboard at the city’s Empire Tower skyscraper.

Posters and LED screens featuring Jungkook have also popped up in subway stations from Taipei, Taiwan to Seoul in South Korea.

Jungkook China bought space on the huge screens of COEX Media Tower in Seoul to deliver their birthday wishes. Photo: Jungkook-SNS/X, formerly known as Twitter

The pop star’s fan clubs have raised money to make donations in his name for various causes. Jungkook Japan, for example, has donated 10 million won (US$7,500) to Seoul National University’s Children’s Hospital – a place which the singer himself has previously donated money to, to the tune of 1 billion won.