• 7 year journey

    It took me 7 years from their debut to find BTS. But my journey to them started the year they debuted. Without Taekwondo, K-dramas, and OSTs, I might never have found them. Clearly, it was meant to be, with all the little details that came together to make it happen.

  • True Love

    May 18, 2018.  The day that changed my life. I was picking my grandkids up from school and they asked for my phone to play a video. While listening to the song, Fake Love, I asked my grandson who was singing. This was my introduction to BTS. I remember asking him if he understood what they were signing and he said “No, but I like the the dancing in the video”.  We got home and I asked him to show me the video. I looked up  BTS and the song lyric translation that evening and found myself crying as I listened to the song and understood the message.  It felt…

  • My Bangtan Story

    Growing up I would unload in journals and diaries. Sharing events, important memories. I would write poems and even the occasional short stories. Using my alter ego to identify my persona. Even as a young adult my writing carried on ,though I never saw it as more than a Hobbie or way to cope.    For me writing and music have always been an outlet. A means to escape, inspiration, a language. For the last 15 yrs or so… give or take my inspiration well ran dry due to a series of traumatic events. Then to add insult to injury life in general got in the way. I became afraid…

  • The Colors of BTS

    Hearing a different sound for the first time was a relief because I had told myself that I would no longer listen to any more music if I didn't like this album. BE provided me with that comfort I never thought I needed with the Covid-19 pandemic.

  • you&me,It’s”us”

    Hi~ This is Army. I think we were in middle school and my twin sister and I heard chatter about Korean bands. We started following many groups at that time. Ah, but we loved BTS in a different way. “You found them when you needed them the most” It’s true! BTS’ behavior with fans was great, I felt like I have a great friend and a special family! The fans themselves were also very friendly. We smiled with your good mood and your laughter and we cried with your sadness, tears and injuries. I think that our souls and destiny are tied together. Now that we are in the second…

  • For my reasons

    همونطوری که یونگی یه بار گفته هر وقت به بنگتن نیاز داشته باشیم اون ها رو پیدا می کنیم  برای منم همنطور بود وقتی برای اولین بار دیدمشون که همه دنیا ساکت بود ، کرونا فرمانروای زمین شده بود و من در اتاقم داخل تاریکی غرق شده بودم . ولی اون ها نور من شدن راه رو بهم نشون دادن و دلیلی شدن که تلاش کنم ادم بهتری بشم . اولین دیدار من با پسر ها بر می گرده به سال 2020 ولی اون لحظه من فقط یک ویدیو کوتا از سخنرانی نامجون در سازمان ملل سال 2018 بود یادم نمیاد چند بار دیدمش ولی هر بار با شنیدن صحبت…

  • Save Me

    I had no idea what I was doing, this was all new to me, but I knew how much it meant to my daughter to see the boys up close to realize they are REAL

  • How BTS helped me be OK with not being OK

    Then BTS told me that I don’t have to be strong, that I can be a bit messed up and I was suddenly breathing. They also told me all the ways they weren’t strong, all the ways they are messed up, and it made me feel warm. They weren’t telling to get over it or to cheer up, they said, “I know, I’m not that great either. Wanna work on it together?”

  • Every day with BTS

    On December 9, 2022, I was alone in my hotel room while the rest of my family were at my oldest daughter’s rehearsal dinner for her wedding the following day. While I was a little sad that I had to quarantine because I had COVID, I was comforted by listening to RM’s, “Indigo.” So, I thought to myself, “how did I get to this point, where BTS is my support in all I do?” Well, you know what they say, “You will find BTS when you need them the most.”It started in the winter of 2016. My youngest daughter had asked for BTS related things for Christmas. She was a…

  • Young Forever – My Chapter

    It all started with a television show. Bored and channel surfing one Saturday night, I happened to land on Saturday Night Live.  Emma Stone was just introducing that week’s musical guest, BTS. (Huh? - Obviously I HAD been living under a rock because I’d never heard of them before.  Ever.)  But they were cute and the song was catchy. Wait…they were singing in another language? And there seemed to be a million of them on the world’s tiniest stage.  How were they dancing so gracefully?  The song finished, and the studio audience lavished them with love, which they gobbled up with smiles and laughter and so much good-natured personality I…

  • —My BTS Epiphany—

    The real definitive turning point of no return was a week before the Busan concert. I was watching videos of them on YouTube, when my younger sister called and said my father had unexpectedly passed away that morning. I had been estranged from him for several years. He was divorced from my mom and we had fought when she got sick. Besides the shock, I had a ton of regret for things I never said and did. Still struggling with my mental health, it was a lot to deal with. I turned heavily to BTS for comfort during this time, they became my calm in the storm, the seven people…

  • You Don’t Find BTS, They Find You

    It was not a matter of when because I had definitely made up my mind that I was going to commit suicide it was just a matter of how I was going to do it.  It was a couple days after Christmas and I was laying in bed waiting for the sun to come up and I kept hearing this song repalying in my head.  I didn't know the name of it but I knew it was a BTS song that I had heard before.  I knew that it came after Pied Piper on my playlist.  So I found it and played it continuosly.  The song: Epiphany.  I listened to…

  • Yup ARMY for Life

    Back in December 2016 at the age of 46, my daughter and myself went to visit her online friend from Brazil who was on vacation in Canada.  Her friend was a fan of BTS.  I had never heard of the group and when she showed me the Blood, Sweat & Tears video, on her phone as we walked through a mall, I said they looked like and sounded like girls and all look the same. In the beginning of September 2017 my daughter asked me to watch a BTS video.  I remember that her friend introduced us to them back in December but this time I sat down and I…

  • To Samsung Ads and Beyond

    I already heard of BTS way back in 2017 when they had a concert here in the Philippines, but I did not pay much attention since I was not into Kpop. Fast forward to 2020, and I was randomly playing YouTube videos while desperately looking for a job online when their Samsung Ad appeared.  I enjoyed watching them dancing and singing to Dynamite, that I realized I finished the entire ad! So I checked the Dynamite MV and I loved it! Since then, I started to watch more random videos until I got hooked all the way! For me, BTS is not just a music group that performs on stage…

  • BTS- The 7Stars To Change My Life

    My life wasn’t more than hell. Everyone just hated me I had no hope to continue my life in that way. I tried ending my life twice but there came someone the 7Stars of my life who changed me actually, changed my life, they changed me. It was like a new life you know like reborn, I got the happiness I had always wished for though my parents in the beginning didn’t liked me always being into my stars but they gradually understood why they are my stars. I never had the courage to speak about my feelings my problems in front of everyone, but now I boldly speak that…