The videos in the series were filmed in Japan and the US (both the mainland and Saipan).Ģ4. He also released his own travel video series, titled G.C.F. He once filmed a video about a trip he took with Jimin.Ģ3. Jungkook loves taking photos as well as editing videos. He still likes watching animated movies such as “Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day,” “The Girl Who Leapt Through Time,” “Spirited Away” and “5 Centimeters per Second.”Ģ2. He was a big fan of the anime “Shugo Chara!” in his childhood. One of his favorite films is “Love Rosie.”Ģ1. His hobbies are drawing, playing guitar and watching movies.Ģ0. He got his driver’s license as soon as he turned 20.ġ9. During his school days, he disliked all academic subjects but liked physical education, art and music.ġ8. His favorite foods include cheese, melons and apple mango.ġ7. He is 178 centimeters tall and weighs 61 kilograms.ġ6. He says he hopes to be able to use both a Seoul accent and a Busan accent someday, citing his pride as a Busanġ4. Jungkook can’t seem to get rid of his Busan accent. On graduation day, he paid 910,000 won (US$823.23) to treat his bandmates at a Chinese restaurant.ġ2. He decided not to take the Suneung, the national college entrance exam, because he wanted to focus on his music career.ġ1. He entered high school a year later than his classmates due to his debut, and graduated at 21 in 2017.ġ0. His schoolmates included SinB and Umji of GFriend.ĩ. Jungkook moved to Seoul to become a trainee and attended School of Performing Arts Seoul. He was the fourth member to join the group. He joined the group at 15, becoming its youngest member.ħ. Despite the disappointment he received casting offers from seven entertainment agencies, including Big Hit Entertainment.Ħ. In 2011, Jungkook participated in the popular Mnet audition program “Super Star K Season 3” but never made it to the finals. He once dreamed of becoming a badminton player.ĥ. Jungkook considered several stage names like “Seagull,” “Tattoo” and “Ean” before making his debut. He is the group’s main vocalist, sub-rapper and lead dancer.ģ. 1, 1997, in the southern port city of Busan.Ģ. That fluency echoes what has become clear when BTS members have broken off for cross-border solo collaborations - say, RM on the “Seoul Town Road” remix of Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” or J-Hope’s update, with Becky G, of Webstar and Young B’s proto-viral 2006 hit “Chicken Noodle Soup” (with a remarkably exuberant video).1. Perhaps the best song on the album is “Ugh!,” a barnstormer that features RM, J-Hope and Suga, and sounds like a collision of Outkast-era up-tempo mayhem with Travis Scott-era syllabic impressionism. And as usual, BTS’s rappers shine on “7.” “Interlude: Shadow,” performed by Suga, has strong eau de Drake, and the J-Hope track “Outro: Ego” pulses with chipper aerobic big-band energy. The singing on the patient ballad “00:00 (Zero O’Clock)” - especially by Jungkook and Jimin - is impressive. “Louder Than Bombs,” a slow, moody, almost gothic number and one of the album’s best songs, is written partly by Troye Sivan, Allie X and Leland. On the one hand, the group is chameleonic - on “Boy With Luv,” it partners with Halsey for a saccharine neo-disco adventure the squelchy “Make It Right” is written partly by Ed Sheeran and does an effective job of containing BTS’s exuberant energy in one of Sheeran’s signature neat packages. Having shown just how much it’s capable of, BTS narrows its focus here. “7” ends up as a kind of referendum on the sort of pop megalith BTS is becoming, and what it might have to leave behind on the way. But the relentlessness of the group’s success obscures the fact that it’s on the cusp of two key transitions: a decreasing reliance on hip-hop and an increasing flirtation with high-profile English-language collaborators. In the past few years, BTS has become the worldwide standard-bearer for pure pop, a collection of seven members - J-Hope, RM, Suga, Jungkook, V, Jin and Jimin - who are charismatic, limber and, most crucially, game for the level of work and ambition required to be mega-popular at home, in the United States and almost everywhere in between.īTS is soaring so high, it might not seem on the surface like it’s navigating particularly tricky waters. “Map of the Soul: 7” - the K-pop juggernaut BTS’s fourth Korean-language full-length album - just debuted at the top of the Billboard chart, though that’s only one indicator of the group’s still-growing global dominance.
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