Flying high with GOT7
The Korean boy band inspires Thai fans to bag a Guinness World Record
THAILAND HAS a new Guinness World Record – history’s greatest-ever number of paper planes – thanks to a dazzling feat of aeronautic engineering at the EmQuartier and Emporium malls this week.
The EM District and 4Nologue whipped up a blizzard of paper planes for an event called “GOT7 District Fly for the World”, featuring hot South Korean boy band GOT7, making their first visit to Thailand.
Mark Yl-en Tuan, Park Jin-young, Choi Young-jae, Jackson Wang, Kim Yoo-gyeom and sole Thai band member Bambam Kunpimook Bhuwakul put on a show for the fans and got them furiously folding up enough paper planes to crack a Guinness record.
The paper will now be recycled to make notebooks for underprivileged children.
The band and local celebrities then joined the retail group’s Supaluck Umpujh and Kriengsak Tantipiphop for a 700-metre red-carpet procession to a press conference promoting GOT7’s full-scale “Fly in Bangkok” concerts on June 11 and 12 at Impact Arena.
Tickets for the shows sold out in minutes the first day. GOT7 jackets and autographs are to be auctioned off next month as well with proceeds after expenses going to charity.
The sales promotion continues through May 31 and every shopper stands to win a prize. If you spend Bt70,000 using a Bangkok Bank credit card, you get return airfare to Hong Kong, and the top 15 spenders on clothes, timepieces and accessories get a chance to meet GOT7 at an exclusive preview at the EM District.
