Kim Seon-tae, who became widely known as “Chungju Man” while working as a public official, is seeing rapid growth for his newly launched YouTube channel and is closing in on the subscriber count of Chungju City’s official channel, “ChungTV.”
News spread on March 3 that Kim opened the channel “Kim Seon-tae” on March 2, drawing attention online. As of the morning of March 3, it had not yet reached 10,000 subscribers. By about 1:20 p.m. on March 4, the channel had about 720,000 subscribers.
Viewers are now watching to see whether Kim’s channel will overtake ChungTV, which has about 774,000 subscribers. ChungTV is a channel Kim planned and built himself. After news of his retirement, ChungTV’s subscriber count, which had topped 900,000, fell sharply.
In a video posted the previous day, Kim said, “The fundamental reason I started thinking about leaving was that I’d done what I could,” adding, “1 million was the original goal, and I felt I’d done my duty.”
He said, “In the end, I started YouTube because I wanted to try things freely,” adding, “This is the only thing I can do. I wanted to make more money.”
Kim also said he is 40 and wanted to show what he can do before getting older. “Even if it doesn’t work out, I’m not the type to have regrets, so I want to establish myself as a YouTuber,” he said.
* This article has been translated by AI.
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