SEOUL — Stocks gifted to members of boy band BTS have snowballed to a combined value of nearly 150 billion won ($132.5 million) over the course of about 10 months.
The gift — 478,695 common shares of BTS’ management agency Hybe that were evenly distributed to the seven members — is now valued at the domestic stock market at 149.8 billion won, as Hybe shares notched an all-time high for five straight trading days until Friday.
This means members RM, Jin, Suga, J-hope, V, Jimin and Jungkook have each accumulated wealth worth 21.4 billion won in stocks. Each of their 68,385 shares in their pockets represent 0.18 percent of voting rights in the company.
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