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They sent links to music videos, concerts, and the band’s self-produced variety show, “Run BTS,” of which there are more than a hundred and fifty episodes. for Youth” and describes both individual fans and its fandom worldwide-delighted in making recommendations. BTS.Īcquaintances who proudly identify as members of BTS’s ARMY-which stands for “Adorable Representative M.C.

Still, I knew nothing of its best-selling product: BangTanSonyeondan, a.k.a. It had successfully hawked its cultural wares in the global marketplace. K-pop!” He asked us to speak Korean, as though he might inhale the sounds along with the salty sea air. When I invited them over for a home-cooked Korean meal, they brought along a friend, another Latino Koreaphile, and a Korean cake garlanded in candied fruits.Ī few years after that, my parents and I were on a ferry in Greece, during a trip to celebrate their fortieth wedding anniversary, when a young Greek man in shorts came up to us, smiling broadly. They’d taught themselves the basics, and began texting with me in short bursts of Hangul, with emojis and exclamation points. Like Karina, they were the daughters of Latino immigrants and bilingual in English and Spanish, but it was Korean that they wanted to know. Three years later, a friend on Long Island told me that teen-age twins who she’d met in town were obsessed with all things Korean. One morning, a worker approached me and asked, apropos of nothing, if I was Korean-not “Chinese or Japanese?” This precision was new. Standing among the women on a street corner in a black puffy coat, I tried to make conversation in my terrible Spanish. I had heard that many employers paid low wages or didn’t pay at all some workers reported verbal abuse and sexual harassment. In the winter of 2012, I was writing a story about Latina day laborers in Brooklyn who cleaned Hasidic homes before the Sabbath-when women’s work accumulated to the point where outsourcing became necessary. I first glimpsed the swell of hallyu, the Korean wave, a decade ago. To continue ignoring the BTS phenomenon was to risk missing something bigger than Beatlemania. The group was everywhere, and everyone seemed to be into them. But, earlier this year, BTS became inescapable. I absorbed Western critiques of K-pop’s girl and boy bands: that they’re fluffy, manufactured, and exploitative of their members-as if the same weren’t true of New Kids on the Block.

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When reporting on South Korea, I resisted the expected topics: Korean skin care, plastic surgery, dogmeat, and, yes, K-pop. He apparently said he was too busy to date, and given the boys’ schedules are constantly packed, that certainly makes sense.Ī) BTS 방탄소년단 (Bantagtansonyeondan) stands for Bulletproof Boy Scouts, but the band has recently changed their name to mean Beyond The Scene.Ī)Their first single No More Dream was released in 2013 and since then, their popularity has been spreading all over the world.I’ve long been hesitant to write about BTS. Suga has more or less been immune to the fan stories about who he’s seeing, at least for the most part. Suga has previously spoken openly about mental health and equality for LGBTQ+ communities.įor BTS, he created the name Suga by using the first first syllables of the term shooting guard, which was his position in basketball when he was a student.Īgust D was created as the initials of his home-down DT and Suga spelt backwards. He soon learned to perform, compose, rap and arrange music.īefore being signed to BTS, he was known as an underground rapper under the name Gloss and he had been a member of hiphop crew D-Town in 2010. Suga, who has an older brother called Min Jun Ki who keeps away from the spotlight, found a love for music at the age of 13 and was working part-time at a record studio at 17.

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In January this year he was promoted to being a full member of the Korea Music Copyright Association. Over 70 songs have been attributed to Suga as the songwriter and producer, according to The Korea Music Copyright Association. While he first found fame in BTS, in 2016 he released his first solo mixtape, Agust D.

He is the lead rapper of BTS and wrote the song I Like It in under 40 minutes. Suga, who is 5ft 7inches, was born Min Yoongi and is nicknamed Agust D, Yoongi and Motionless Min. Suga was Born on 9 March 1993 in Daegu Town, South Korea, the 25-year-old is the second oldest member of the band.

Who is bandmate Suga and what do we know about him? Well as u see this is my second blog anyways let's talk about Suga/Min Yoongi.

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