Bangtan Boys or often
known by other names BTS is one of the South Korean idol groups whose names are
already global. The story of the journey of the seven members, from being a
trainee to being successful as it is today is quite inspiring and must be known.
BTS Biodata
| Group name | BTS |
| Debut date | Juni 13, 2013 |
| Country of origin | South Korea |
| Label | Big Hit Entertainment |
| Fanclub | ARMY |
| Members | Rap Monster, Jin, V, Suga, Jungkook, J-Hope, Jimin |
Bangtan Boys, also known
as BTS, is one of the idol groups from South Korea which debuted on June 13,
2013 with the single No More Dream. This debut single is one of the singles and
their debut album titled 2 Cool 4 Skool.
The Idol group which is
under the auspices of the Big Hit Entertainment consists of seven people. The
profiles of BTS members are Rap Monster, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, V, and
Jungkook.
This first album released
successfully led them to win the New Artist of the Year award from the MelOn
Music Awards and Golden Disk Awards in 2013.
This group is known to
have a large fan base throughout the world.
The whole world has a
large fan base for this group. Did you know, Adorable Representative MC for
Youth stands for his fandom.
The number of fans around
the world is increasing every day. His presence was also increasingly gaining
public attention because BTS songs always managed to occupy the top position of
music charts in various countries.
Departing from an agency
that can be said is not one of the big agencies in Korea, then what makes the
BTS profile can be a world star like now? Just take a look at the reviews about
BTS member profiles along with the phenomenal origin of the Idol Group.
BTS Member Profile
Before discussing about
his career journey, let's get acquainted with its members first. For those of
you who don't know the group too much, surely you are curious about the BTS
profile?
Well, here we will
discuss the profile of BTS members to be more familiar with the members.
1. Rap ​​Monster
The profile of the first
member to be discussed is Kim Nam Joon or who is familiarly called by the stage
name Rap Monster. He is the leader and also playing rapper from Bangtan Boys.
He was born in Ilsan on September 12, 1994.
Before debuting, Runch
Randa was his stage name when he became a undergorund rapper. At that time, he
had collaborated with Zico, Block B's personnel who was also a underground
rapper at the time.
The hip hop group called
Daenamhyup has also been the place to work. In 2010, the first member who
joined Big Hit Entertainment was Rap Monster.
He is known as a genius
idol. The man who idolizes Kanye West has an IQ of 149, while for the TOEIC he
gets a score of 900. In fact, during the national exam he became the best
ranking.
This member who is known
as a producer and songwriter is the only boy in his family. He has one younger
sister named Kim Geong Min.
2. Jin
The second BTS member
profile that we will discuss next is Jin. This man who has the real name Kim
Seok Jin fills the position as a vocalist and visual in the group.
He was born in Gwacheon
on December 4, 1992. This member who enjoys cooking is the oldest member in the
group.
Before his debut, Jin
underwent training for three years. When becoming a trainee, the member who
became his first friend was V. They both had the same habits and hobbies.
One of them is the same
as anime. This made them both more familiar.
With better cooking
skills than other members, Jin was appointed as the cook in the dorm where the
members lived.
3. Suga
Min Yoon Gi or what we
know better as Suga is the lead rapper from BTS. He has one older brother and
he was born in Bukgu, Daegu, on March 9, 1993.
Before debuting with the
group now, this graduate of Apujeong High School is a underground rapper who is
quite famous in the Daegu area with the name "Gloss".
He joined Big Hit
Entertainment after winning the runner-up title in an open audition held by Big
Hit in 2010.
On August 16, 2016,
Suga's BTS released the mixtape titled Agust D for the first time and launched
2 Music Videos (MV) as well as Agust D's song and Give it to Me.
The two MVs have been
watched more than one million times on YouTube in just 12 hours. When
performing solo, he did not use the name Suga, but Agust D.
4. J-Hope
This man born in Gwangju
on February 18, 1994 occupies the lead position of the rapper and plays dancer
in the group. Before joining BTS, he joined a street dance group called NEURON.
Together with NEURON, the
member whose real name is Jung Ho Seok often participates in various
competitions and championships.
J-Hope is the only son in
the family. Jung Da Won is the name of his sister.
Profile of BTS members
who like green is considered as a member who always brings happiness to other
members. He is considered the mother of the members.
Even V has said that
J-Hope is like Doraemon. This is because he can always succeed in finding
solutions to every problem.
5. Jimin
After J-Hope, the profile
of the next BTS member that we will introduce is Jimin. Member born in Busan,
October 13, 1995 is a lead vocalist and plays dancer in the group.
Born with Park Ji Min's
real name, he has several nicknames. He is often called Chim Chim, Dolly, or
Park Jimine, but he is more familiarly called by the stage name Jimin.
He idolized BIGBANG,
especially Taeyang, and he really liked his songs. Jimin attended school
majoring in Modern Dance at the Busan Art School. From there he learned to sing
and dance.
He also followed Big
Hit's audition on the advice of one of his teachers. He finally managed to join
with other members to become trainees at Big Hit Entertainment.
In the MV of his debut
song, No More Dream, Jimin looks the most prominent and attracts attention. The
fans positively welcomed Jimin who showed his abdominal muscles when singing.
The fans were happy because
Jimin began to become confident. Jimin is always guarding his abdominal
muscles. He is a member who is most concerned with diet matters.
He likes it the least if
someone says he has gained weight. Jimin is the most diligent member of the
practice every day, he chooses to spend his time practicing rather than
sleeping.
6. V
The profile of the next
BTS member is Kim Tae Hyung or better known as Stage V. He is a vocalist in the
Bangtan Boys group. He was born on December 30, 1995 in Daegu.
Then he moved to Geochang
and grew up there before finally moving to Seoul. V has one younger brother and
one younger sister.
He auditioned for the Big
Hit in Daegu. Unexpectedly, he successfully escaped the audition.
He likes everything that
is unique and also has a hobby of listening to music that is not heard by
others.
Among all members, V is
considered the most unique and strange member. In addition, he is also
considered the most mysterious member.
The name V is famous for
its 4D personality. This is a Korean term that has an unexpected personality
and tends to be absurd.
If the BLACKPINK group
has Jisoo, then in BTS, V is the member who has this personality. His behavior
always makes people frown.
He can suddenly scream,
sometimes also showing an alien face in front of the camera, and dance excited
when everyone is silent.
V often gets the nickname
Blank Tae because his facial expression is always empty. Besides singing, V is
also known for his ability to act.
In 2016, he participated
in the role of a Korean drama entitled Hwarang: The Beginning and acted as
Hansung.
V is one of the members
who has the most female fans. Many fans consider themselves similar to Baekhyun
EXO and Daehyun B.A.P.
7. Jungkook
The profile of the BTS
member which will be discussed next is Jeon Jung Kook or commonly called
Jungkook. He is a vocalist, lead dancer, sub rapper, center, and maknae from
Bangtan Boys.
He was born on September
1, 1997 in Busan. Jungkook has one older brother. He attended Seoul School
Performing Arts.
When he was 13 years old,
Jungkook had not joined BTS. At that time he auditioned for the K3 Superstar. However,
he failed the audition.
Even so, several
different companies turned out to be after him. One of them is Big Hit
Entertainment.
Finally, Jungkook decided
to join Big Hit Entertainment in 2011. In 2012, Big Hit sent him to Los Angeles
to study dancing at a famous dance academy there.
After undergoing trainees
in LA, Jungkook officially debuted along with 6 other members in the BTS group.
Travel Profile BTS Towards Success
After knowing the profile
of BTS members, we will discuss about the career journey of the group which is
fronted by these seven members.
BTS profile is known as
one of the idol groups which can be regarded as the most popular group in the
international world. The number of fans continues to grow in various parts of
the world.
His presence is always
awaited by fans. Every time they make a comeback it will always explode. His
songs have always been successful in dominating music charts in various
countries.
His video music on his
official YouTube channel has always been watched by millions of people in a
very short period of time. However, their struggle to reach this point is not
easy.
Departing from a small
company, making them could not be trusted to be as successful as they are now.
Even the profile of BTS was called a poor idol.
If you are curious about
the process they are going through to be known by many people like now, just
refer to the BTS profile and the full review below.
1. Starting from a rapper duo
At the beginning of the
formation of this group, the profile of BTS will be formed by the formation of
just a rapper duo. The profile of BTS members at that time was filled by Namjoon,
now known as Rap Monster and Hunchul, known as Iron.
Both of them have long
known before joining the Big Hit. They once joined a underground hip hop group
Daenamhyup.
In early 2010, Big Hit
Entertainment's CEO and producer Bang Shi Hyuk announced that he would debut a
hip hop group duo named BTS and release a rap video battle between them.
Rap Monster will bring a
track titled DREAMIN and Iron to bring a track titled I.N.G ... Iron was then
appointed as the leader at that time.
2. Adding Members
Starting from the duo
concept, the agency actually changed the BTS profile concept and reopened
auditions to add members. In the middle of 2010, several prospective members
entered the line up of BTS profiles.
They are Choi Ikje
(I11evn), Jung Ho Seok (J-Hope), Shin Dong Hyuk (Supreme Boi), and Min Yoon Gi
(Suga). J-Hope was originally a trainee from JYP Entertainment in 2009.
However, in 2010 he was
withdrawn by the CEO of Big Hit Entertainment to join his agency. Bang Shin
Hyuk and JYP do have good relations.
The CEO of Big Hit
Entertainment was a producer at JYP and decided to open his own agency with
help from JYP.
J-Hope initially passed
the audition as a dancer instead of a rapper. However, the agency decided that
J-Hope would become a rapper, because the group would debut as a hip hop group
with the formation of all members as a rapper.
Meanwhile, I11evn and
Supreme Boi also passed auditions and became BTS line-up. Suga even when the
audition had to lose rap battle against I11evn.
However, he still included
Suga as one of the members after seeing his potential. Starting from two
people, this group also turned into six people.
3. Changing the concept of being an idol group
This group is planned to
debut in 2010, but due to changes in the concept, the debut plan was canceled.
In 2011, I11 decided to leave Big Hit because the agency changed the concept to
an idol group.
He felt it was not
suitable if he had to become an idol. After I11 came out, he was replaced by
Kidoh. Shortly after, in mid-2011, Supreme Boi and Iron chose to leave for the
same reason as I11evn.
At the end of 2011,
Jungkook and V became members who replaced Supreme Boi and Iron. However, both
are not shown to the public by the agency. They both filled the line up as a
vocalist.
In 2012, Big Hit added
one more member, he was Jin. In the beginning, Jin was only a trainee trained
as an actor. But, Big Hit decided to include him as a vocalist in this group.
After Jin, Jimin is the
last member to join. He passed the audition thanks to his dancing abilities.
The profile of BTS, which
at that time consisted of eight people, was introduced to the public. However,
there was one member who had not yet been introduced to the public, namely
Kidoh decided to leave and join other agencies.
Debut
On January 25, 2013, BTS
began releasing the first video titled Bangtan Log which began with Jimin. Rap
Monster also filled Rap for the 8eight song entitled Bad Girl.
Then on June 11, 2013,
Big Hit launched the MV for their debut song No More Dream and released the BTS
single album titled 2 Cool 4 Skool.
The group officially
debuted with seven members, namely Monster Rap (leader), Jin, Suga, J-Hope,
Jimin, V, and Jungkook. They made their stage debut on the MCountdown music
show.
After that, they released
an album titled O! RUL8,2? with N.O as its flagship song. At the beginning of
its debut, BTS managed to get many awards.
Among them are MelOn
Music Awards, Gaon Chart KPop Awards, Golden Disk Awards, Seoul Music Awards,
SBS Pop Asia, Soompi Awards, and Heloo Asia! Kpop Awards.
1. Success after debut
In February 2015, they
held a Japanese tour for the first time. On March 28, 2015, BTS held the second
solo concert in Korea which was previously held in 2014.
Then they released their
third mini album titled The Most Beautiful Moment in Life in 2015, the album
itself has a trilogy concept. This year is the year that brings a lot of
success to BTS.
Starting from his victory
in the first position in the music program at The Show on May 5, 2015 for the
song I Need U. Then followed by his victory at Music Bank, MCountdown, and Show
Champion.
Not only in Korea, this
group even ranks 4th in the US Chart. After that, the Most Beautiful Moment in
Life Part 2 trilogy was no less successful than the flagship Run song.
This success is evidenced
by the award they got as Best World Performer at the MAMA Awards to the Best
Korean Act on MTV EMA.
2. Releasing the album You Never Walk Alone and Love Youself: Her
In 2017, the group
re-released the album WINGS with the title You Never Walk Alone. Spring Day's
main single won all kill status in eight South Korean online music charts.
As a result, the MelOn
music site server was currently inaccessible because after the song was
released, so many people wanted to download it.
Followed by Not Today, which
was ranked 11th on the United States iTunes chart, while Spring Day also
dominated iTunes date on Brunei, Finland, Hong Kong, Indonesia and several
other countries.
After spreading many
clues ahead of the 2017 BTS comeback, the group formed by Big Hit officially
released a mini album titled Love Yourself: Her on September 18, 2017 which
contained nine songs.
Even with this album, the
profile of BTS scores many new records. This album sales reached more than one
million copies during pre-order before release.
This group also became
the fastest idol group that reached more than one hundred thousand likes on the
MelOn site. They became the first K-pop Idol Group to sell physical albums on
the Amazon site.
This album also topped
the US iTunes Albums and all the songs on this album were in the top 200 ranks.
One of its flagship songs
titled DNA managed to occupy the fourth position in the United States iTunes
Top Songs.
The last series of this
trilogy, The Most beautiful Moment: Young Forever is also enough to gain great
success. This success was followed by the release of the second Studio Album
titled WINGS which occupies the top position on the Billboard.
Closing
That was the information
about the profile of BTS members and the long process of the members until they
debuted in 2013. From starting to change concepts and changing members, who
would have thought that their debut could be as successful as this.
Now even the profile of
BTS has skyrocketed its name in all parts of the world. Seeing the struggle
that starts from zero until it can be as successful as now, it seems they
really deserve all this.
