Can't believe after 13 years we finally got the footage of the exact moment Namgi first started to suspect this wasn't the rap group they were promised
Ngomongin soal surat sakit, 2 thn lalu aku kena cacar air di Jerman. Pas dtg ke hausarzt/ dokter ditolak karna hari itu jadwal dokternya full (ga bsa dadakan) 🙂. Akhirnya suami blg kalau ga dpt surat sakit, aku bakalan ttp pergi ke kantor. Karna wktu itu aku bru masuk kerja jdnya hrus pake surat sakit.
Akhirnya dibolehin dan pas dirmh dinas kesehatannya telfon buat tanya2 dataku + ngasih larangan buat gak keluar rmh / ktmu ibu hamil gtu2. Trs ternyata, alasan nursenya bolehin itu soalnya kalau sewaktu2 ada pandemi dr cacar air ini, mereka bakalan ngetrack org yg pertama kali kena dan kalau smp ini terjadi karna berawal dr ditolak sm hausartz ya nnti hausartznya jg kena 😖.
i will never get over the way yoongi answered jimin’s call in are you sure s1 like “what… what do you want omg 🙄” fully in bickering mode and when jimin turned the camera to jungkook it suddenly was “oh hi jungkookie 🥰 i saw your performance 🥰 you did great 🥰”
Segundo um colega de escola, #JUNGKOOK costumava esconder os olhos atrás da franja comprida porque todo mundo comentava o quanto eles eram bonitos.
Na época, os alunos até achavam que ele cobria os olhos por causa de algum machucado, mas depois descobriram que era justamente o contrário: seus olhos chamavam atenção demais. Dizem que ele chegava a passar quase uma hora em frente ao espelho arrumando o cabelo para mantê-los cobertos.
Fofo. 🥹🤍
award shows that added a kpop category:
VMAs (since 2019)
EMAs (since 2021)
AMAs (since 2022)
BBMAs (since 2023)
iHeartRadio Awards (since 2024)
Grammys (new)
look at when all of this started happening...but sure, kpop twt will tell you bts did nothing for the asian market lol
morro que enquanto army tá criticando a organização por criar mais uma categoria nichada pra se recusar a dar os prêmios principais à pessoas asiáticas kpopper tá mais preocupado em tentar atacar o bts, realmente, não somos iguais
i didn't realize while i was switching cams i caught hobi trying to tell the members that they were going the wrong way for idol and then you can see taejin laughing in the back
I might get jumped for saying this but its extremely odd how people will do a background check on anyone that has a positive interaction with bts and it reeks of jealousy
remember when talking about inner child joon said he wanted to fill the song with beautiful words for the little taehyung in the past. he changed the lyric from “we don’t change” to “we gon’ change” so he could give his younger self a little more hope 🥹
Three years of mandatory military service punched a $3.6 billion annual hole in South Korea's economy. Last night, in the same Busan stadium where they said goodbye before enlisting, on their 13th debut anniversary, BTS started filling it back in.
The $3.6 billion figure came from the Hyundai Research Institute. This wasn't from album sales. It came from 1 in every 13 foreign tourists visiting Korea because of the group, the hotels those tourists filled, the cosmetics they shipped home, the restaurants that stayed packed for days around every show. The Hyundai estimate put their annual economic output in the same range as Korean Air. South Korea's government spent years debating whether to grant military exemptions to all seven members.
In October 2022, before enlisting, BTS played their final group concert in Busan. Free. 50,000 in-person at Busan Asiad Main Stadium, 49 million streaming online. Korea's Culture and Tourism Institute estimated that single free show generated $660 million in economic activity for the city. Two members, Jimin and Jungkook, grew up there. The city lit Gwangan Bridge purple, the group's signature color, and kept it lit for weeks.
Then everyone went quiet. Jin enlisted first, December 2022. By late 2023, all seven were in uniform. HYBE, the entertainment company that manages BTS, watched its stock nearly halve over the following year. Concert revenue, merch sales, and fan events all fell.
Suga was last, discharged June 21, 2025.
Through its first two months on the road, the ARIRANG World Tour has grossed $124 million from 660,000 tickets. Tampa alone pulled $40.7 million over three nights, more than the Seoul and Tokyo legs combined. South Korean analysts expect the full tour to bring in between $1.3 billion and $1.87 billion by March 2027. The Love Yourself Tour in 2018 and 2019 made $187 million total across 38 shows. ARIRANG has cleared two-thirds of that, and it's June.
The name they chose for all of this: Arirang. Korea's unofficial national anthem, a folk song over 600 years old with 3,600 regional variations, UNESCO-listed since 2012. Banned during Japan's 35-year occupation of Korea. Sung in both North and South Korea, one of the few things crossing that political border. Korea's National Folk Museum calls it the cultural DNA of the Korean people. BTS named their comeback after a song about separation, endurance, and return.
Last night in Busan, same stadium, Gwangan Bridge lit purple again. 55,000 paid tickets instead of zero. Less than a year back from service, NH Financial Group now projects BTS fan spending hitting $6.58 billion a year in South Korea by 2040. Nearly double what they generated before enlisting.