[K-enter] Seventeen donate charity auction proceeds to UNESCO

Time for some K-entertainment news with Bella Kim. Bella, today we have a wide range of K-entertainment news. Let's start with a warm donation story.

Seventeen, a group that serves as a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassadors for Youth, have made a huge gesture.

According to their agency, Pledis Entertainment, the group donated 250-thousand U.S. dollars to UNESCO on International Youth Day.

The donation was raised through a charity auction, titled "Joopiter Presents: Sacai X Seventeen."

This charity auction was a limited collection introduced back in June by Seventeen in collaboration with JOOPITER, a digital commerce content platform founded by fashion brand Sacai and artist and producer Pharrell Williams.

They released leather jackets that Seventeen members helped make and T-shirts with their autographs.

The donation will fund the Global Youth Grant that Seventeen and UNESCO launched together.

Last year, Seventeen were named as the first-ever UNESCO Goodwill Ambassadors for Youth, and upon their appointment, they donated 1 million U.S. dollars to help young people around the world pursue their dreams.

It's great to see them support young people as ambassadors for youth.

Speaking of ambassadors, we are going to talk about another group who were appointed as ambassadors. Which group is it?

The city of Seoul has appointed the virtual idol group PLAVE as the ambassadors for Startup Seoul.

On Tuesday, Seoul held a ceremony to appoint the "2025 Startup Seoul ambassadors and Try Everything promotional group."

At the ceremony, Seoul selected PLAVE as its ambassadors to promote the startup and entrepreneurship ecosystem of Seoul to foreign countries.

PLAVE's agency, VLAST, is a Seoul-based startup that possesses motion capture-based 3D content production technology.

At the ceremony, Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon presented the appointment letter to the CEO of VLAST and PLAVE members received it in real time in a virtual world on a large screen just behind them.

The members of PLAVE said that they are honored to have the opportunity to promote Seoul's excellent startup ecosystem to the world, and that they will widely convey the charm of Seoul to their global fans.

It's more meaningful as PLAVE's agency is a startup as well.

Now, let's end off on an upcoming movie.

The upcoming film "MURDER REPORT" held a press conference on Tuesday at CGV Yongsan IPark Mall in Seoul.

Attending along with the director Cho Young-joon were lead actors Cho Yeo-jeong of "Parasite" and Jung Sung-il, best known for his role in Netflix hit series "The Glory."

"MURDER REPORT" centers on a psychiatrist, who is also a serial killer, requesting an exclusive interview with a reporter.

The majority of the film is filled with a one-on-one interview between the two.

Cho Yeo-jeong, who plays the reporter Seon-ju, said she specifically focused on her pronounciation and articulation to express the character well.

Jung Sung-il, who portrays the killer Young-hun, said that he fell right into the character and actually had trouble getting out of it after the shoot.

"MURDER REPORT" is set to be released in theaters on September 5th.

Crime-thriller film fans like you Bella must be excited.

Thank you Bella for today's stories.And now let's go over to our AI anchor Ari for other issues on the culture front. Ari!