Lee Jae-myeong surpasses 1 million YouTube subscribers…First active member of parliament to receive gold button?

Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung’s personal YouTube channel surpassed 1 million subscribers on the 26th. Representative Lee is the first among active members of the National Assembly and politicians to exceed 1 million YouTube subscribers.

According to Playboard, a YouTube data analysis service, on the 26th, Lee’s representative YouTube channel recorded about 997,000 subscribers, attracting about 4,000 new subscribers the previous day. The number exceeded 1 million on the 26th. YouTube gives a ‘gold button’, a kind of achievement plaque, to accounts that reach 1 million subscribers.

The number of subscribers to Lee’s YouTube account increased significantly during the official campaign period for the 22nd general election. The number of subscribers, which was around 920,000 on March 27, increased by about 43,000 during the election period. Even after election day, it continued to increase and reached 1 million subscribers in just one month.

Representative Lee opened a YouTube account on May 14, 2014. As of the date of reaching 1 million subscribers, 2,711 videos have been uploaded, and the cumulative number of views is 233,586,507. There were also 1,407 live broadcasts, and on the 9th, the day before the general election, the number of simultaneous viewers peaked at 31,489.

Representative Lee has consistently emphasized the importance of social media. In a conversation with party members on the 19th, he said, “The media environment is so distorted that the truth cannot be distributed,” and “It is time to improve our means of communication and strengthen our networks and use of social media more than ever.” .

Representative Lee is the first active member of the National Assembly to exceed 1 million YouTube subscribers. Looking at politicians in general, Daegu Mayor Hong Joon-pyo’s ‘TV Hongka Cola’, which was launched on November 29, 2018, has 690,000 subscribers, and President Yoon Seok-yeol, who created a YouTube channel during the last presidential election, has 610,000 subscribers.