AKMU star wins YouTube 'Gold Play Button'
Lee Soo-hyun thanked her visitors and promised to continue to be their “happy virus mochi peach.” Korea Times file
By Ko Dong-hwan
YouTube's "Gold Button" plaque. Screen capture from YouTube
Brother-and-sister duo AKMU's Lee Soo-hyun clinched a YouTube “Gold Play Button” after her online channel passed one million subscribers on Sunday.
Her beauty and makeup channel, “
,” as of Monday had an additional 2,775 subscribers, making her eligible for the flat, square-shaped plaque made of gold-plated brass.
The singer, 20, from YG Entertainment, on Instagram thanked her followers and promised to continue to be their “happy virus mochi peach.”
The achievement came in 25 months, with 33 videos that range from singing covers to shopping, autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR, or psychologically comforting sounds YouTubers often make by eating), beauty makeup tutorials and video blog. Total hits are more than 34 million.
Park Joon-hyung, a member of defunct K-pop boy band God, has more than 1.9 million subscribers with popular YouTube channel “
.” K-pop girl band f(x)'s Taiwanese member Amber Liu has her “
” channel with more than 1.2 million subscribers.
Chef-tainer Paik Jong-won attracted one million subscribers to his “
” in just three days. Starting on June 10, as of Monday it has more than 1.5 million fans.