7/ RM says "아리랑은 한이 담긴 음악" and Netflix translates 한 (han) as "sorrows of longing." That's one layer. But 한 is grief, longing, and quiet endurance shaped by centuries of Korean history. One syllable. No full translation exists.
i know the boys themselves haven't talked abt religion in years, but even seeing a concept from ur religion when u live in a white christian nationalist state is so affirming like....NO ONE be talking about buddhism unless they are culturally appropriating our stuff
🐨 says that in LA he could feel the 무상 (musang) of time—its impermanence & its fleetingness. In Buddhist traditions, 무상 is the idea that nothing stays fixed & that everything is always changing
The notion of time’s 무상 has inspired people to be more awake, more attentive & perhaps more tender
*cue Change Pt.2*
Yoongi has been credited as a co-author of the clinical manual “MIND Program,” a music-based social skills training program for children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder, developed by Professor Chun Geun-ah and her research team.
Omg this is huge 🥹💜 I’m so proud of him
ARMY, join us in celebrating BTS’s historical comeback with #OneInAnArirang, a 7-Day Fundraiser supporting GYOPO, a US based non-profit that organizes Korean arts & cultural programs & projects in order to foster the Korean diaspora community 🇰🇷
Donate: https://t.co/KfRVXYNahw💜
here's an invaluable nugget of wisdom in this landscape of ai slop peddled as 'accessibility' to art - u might not think u have the talent to be creative but putting in effort is ALSO talent. that's what makes it meaningful. create! share! learn! grow! nurture love in that act.
Scottish ARMYs came together to design our own tartans, had a vote and this was declared as our 'official' Clan MacBangtan tartan!
Designed by: @Loulou_98_
Name picked by: @UGHXYOONGI