BTS member Jin proudly carried the Olympic flame through Paris as the first torchbearer for the 2024 Paris Olympics, coinciding with Bastille Day, the French National Day. This historic moment was captured in real-time as Jin carried the torch at the Louvre Museum, representing the Republic of Korea.
He departed for Paris on July 11 from Seoul. The flame, first lit in Olympia, Greece, on April 16, 2024, is expected to reach Paris on July 26 for the grand opening of the Olympics. Around 10,000 torchbearers, including Jin, are participating in the prestigious torch relay, which will cover 400 cities in France and some overseas regions.
The official page of The Olympic Games on X, formerly Twitter, shared a video of Jin, the oldest member of K-pop supergroup BTS, bearing the 2024 Paris Olympics torch.
Previous torchbearers from past Olympics have included Muhammad Ali for the 1996 Atlanta Games and David Beckham for the 2012 London Games.
In addition to this remarkable achievement, BTS’ Jin has been busy since his discharge from the military on July 12. Besides the torch relay, he is scheduled to release a solo album this year and has completed filming for an MBC variety show called “The Half-Star Hotel in Lost Island.” The episodes are set to be broadcast soon.
On June 12, the K-Pop star completed his mandatory service and received a warm welcome from his BTS bandmates J-Hope, Jimin, Jungkook, V, and RM at a military base in Yeoncheon, South Korea. Later in the day, the band joyously celebrated Jin’s return, sharing a photo of their reunion on the social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter). The picture showed the band members reunited with balloons in the background that read “Jin is back.” Accompanying the photo was the caption, “I’m home.”