K-Pop stars at UN urge world's youth to 'just speak yourself'

K-Pop sensation BTS brought their star power to the United Nations on Monday, telling the world's youth to listen to their inner voice and resist pressure to conform.

"No matter who you are, where you're from, your skin colour, your gender identity, just speak yourself," group leader Kim Nam-jun told a packed hall at the launch of a UNICEF youth campaign.

Dubbed "Generation Unlimited", the campaign to promote education, training and employment kicked off during the annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations.

Wearing business suits and ties, the septet joined UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, World Bank president Jim Yong Kim and Rwandan President
"I think that's when I began to worry about what other people thought of me and started seeing myself though their eyes," he said. "I tried to jam myself into the molds that other people made."
The lead singer of the world's most popular boy band said there were times when he wanted to quit music but he overcame his insecurities by listening to the "small voice that said, wake up man, and listen to yourself."