“Look at how idols these days go into acting, we'll let you become an actor eventually." That's how they convinced me. They were very persuasive.
-Jin”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“Reality had other plans.”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“Dewey Finn (played by Jack Black), the main character in the movie School of Rock, is a nameless musician under false pretenses gets a job at an elementary school in place of a friend who is a licensed teacher. When he realizes how talented the students are, he tries to put them together into a rock band. The students, however, know nothing of rock music, and Dewey ends up teaching them the history of rock-and-roll during class instead of the usual curriculum.”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“Its first teenage fans were now in their thirties, and as fandom culture developed over the years, the content and standards the fans demanded also became clearer.
Kalgunmu, or "razor-sharp group dancing," was such content. Fans wanted their favorite groups to create awe-inspiring moments of perfect synchronized dancing.”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“The both of us were in agreement that the team had to go. But the difference between us was that I was wondering if we could pursue our happiness a little first and then think about what was going to happen, while he believed we had to give our all now for the sake of later happiness.”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“Adjusting' seems to be the right word. Because once I entered the dorm, I realized, 'Ah, I guess this is how I should live from now.”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“I still have no idea why, but we seriously only ever stuck with one another. And I think it must have been hard for other people to approach us, too. We were all clearly on edge because we were determined to do hip-hop, not meeting other people's eyes...”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“Jin also injected the team with a sense of calm.
There's steps to everything. Sometimes you have to climb slowly. And we knew that all the other people who succeeded climbed up slowly, little by little.”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“However, some people—like B-Free—act as if they are judges at an audition, publicly passing judgment on idol groups' musical identities in spite of not having that authority.”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“Politics is for the moment and equation is for eternity.”
Source: The Quotable Einstein