The King offered Okay-pop band Blackpink with honorary MBEs a day after hailing them as environmental champions.

Charles handed medals to South Korean megastars Jennie Kim, Jisoo Kim, Lisa Manobal and Rose Park at Buckingham Palace.

They had been joined by the nation’s President Yoon Suk Yeol and First Lady Kim Keon Hee throughout their state go to to the UK.

The King informed the band he was “so glad” to current them with the MBEs including he hoped to see them “perform live at some point”.

Jennie informed the King that receiving the MBE was “the most honourable thing for us”

The largest woman group in South Korea amassed hundreds of thousands of views on their local weather movies throughout the COP26 in Glasgow two years in the past after being appointed as one of many summit’s advocates.

One of their appeals options the band members talking in English, Thai and Chinese as they known as for world leaders to take local weather motion and “save our planet”.

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After the presentation, Charles mentioned the band’s latest tour and joked to the group: “The great thing is that you’re still talking to each other after all these years of working together.”

Blackpink grew to become the primary Korean band to headline a significant UK pageant, BST Hyde Park, throughout the summer time.

One of the band’s hottest songs Ddu-Du, Ddu-Du – with greater than 2 billion hits on YouTube – was performed throughout the guard change.

Viral Okay-pop track, Gangnam Style, by Psy and the Korean folks track, Arirang, had been additionally performed earlier than the investiture.

The musical tribute to South Korea comes a day after the King praised Blackpink throughout his state banquet address.

He mentioned: “I applaud Jennie, Jisoo, Lisa and Rose, better known collectively as Blackpink, for their role in bringing the message of environmental sustainability to a global audience as ambassadors for the UK’s presidency of COP26, and later as advocates for the UN sustainable development goals.

“I can solely admire how they will prioritise these important points, in addition to being world superstars. Sadly, after I was in Seoul all these years in the past, I’m not positive I developed a lot of what may be known as the Gangnam Style!”

K-pop, quick for Korean fashionable music, contains types and genres from all over the world, corresponding to hip hop, rock and R&B, on prime of its conventional Korean music roots.