Well, we can't predict
how we'll end up
or if BTS' image is going to change.
But as I've said before,
it's about faith.
I think BTS itself
will always continue to exist.
I think that's a good thing to have faith in.
[♪ upbeat music playing, BTS "RUN"]
[background chatter]
[Jung Kook] It's a bit hectic because everything is happening so fast.
I feel like I'm emotionally less prepared
for this concert than usual.
So I'm pretty worried.
[RM] What is Busan?
- Busan is the Green Smart City. - [laughter]
[j-hope] We're in Busan.
[♪ upbeat music playing, BTS "RUN"]
[screaming]
[singing]
A lot of people are here for our concert today,
so the temperature rose.
♪ We just loved music ♪
- ♪ An old lid, an old lid ♪ - ♪ We're just running forward ♪
[Jin] It looks like Thanos's chin.
Yum.
[♪ upbeat music playing, BTS "RUN"]
[shrieking]
♪ I was right in that Nonhyeon-dong studio that leaked rain ♪
♪ Drinking straight soju shots while complaining about life ♪
♪ We swore that when we succeeded it was game over for everyone ♪
♪ The reason for BTS' success? I don't even know, there's no such thing ♪
♪ It was all us running ourselves ragged No matter what anyone said, we just ran ♪
♪ The answer is here ♪
[SUGA] I felt this a lot from the members while preparing for the Busan concert.
We were putting in a lot of effort
to show everyone that we still had it in us.
We also performed some strenuous choreography
for songs like RUN BTS.
Everyone was overflowing with enthusiasm.
[SUGA] Some of the members showed up early to learn the dance.
And there were some who stayed behind to practice more, like me.
I think we'll remain the same
even as time passes.
♪ Leaving them soulless Make it move, left and right ♪
♪ Whoever it may be Make it move, left and right ♪
♪ Our bare two feet are our gasoline ♪
♪ Now let's go, are you ready? ♪
[j-hope] We've done everything we could.
We've put in a lot of effort too.
I think we have thoroughly prepared everything,
as we always have for our performances.
[music stops]
[crowd cheering]
[V] Did you miss us, ARMY?
[crowd] Yes!
[V] This is a good start.
We all cried during our group dinner.
We said we were going to stop all group activities
and start our solo careers.
But we're doing a group concert again.
The thought that would pop up in my mind
while preparing for this was, "ARMY is going to be surprised
when they see our concert."
Yes, and in truth…
I want to talk about the future.
[crowd screaming]
No, it's nothing major, everyone. [laughs]
- Nothing's going on with us. - That's right.
It's really not that major.
I think having faith is crucial at this point in time.
I believe that it's time for BTS and ARMY
to move forward and map out our future
with the faith that we have in each other.
[♪ upbeat music playing, BTS "Yet To Come"]
[in English] ♪ Moment is yet to come, yeah ♪
[in Korean] ♪ Not sure since when ♪
[RM] Is it possible to achieve the ideal image
of an idol group even in our thirties?
We want to achieve this ideal image
where we stay together as a team of seven
and also accomplish our own work as individuals.
[RM] We don't want to be disappointed even if we can't do that,
but we keep thinking, "Maybe we could do it."
I have a desire to show the next chapter of an idol or K-pop group
in an awesome and proper way.
[SUGA] Anyway, we share the same thoughts.
We want to put on a great performance, and it's so fun when we meet ARMY.
I think we can do 10 more years for just that reason alone.
[in English] ♪ …the best ♪
♪ But my best is what comes next ♪
♪ We'll be singin' till the morn ♪
[in Korean] ♪ Heading towards the day More like ourselves ♪
[in English] ♪ You and I, best moment is yet to come ♪
[whooping]
[crowd cheering]
[j-hope] Having time to relax?
I don't think I've relaxed like this in almost a year.
I think it's been about a year.
For a person, having time to relax is really…
I think it's a necessity.
Rest.
[j-hope] I believe I'm going to feel like
I can lead a new life in my own way,
so I'm not afraid of anything.
Of course, it's going to be really hard
if something goes wrong.
It's a team I'm a part of.
It'll be really upsetting
if things go bad and start to fizzle out.
But I think it's slowly coming together.
We're now able to gracefully accept what's coming.
[j-hope] "Let's not try to swim against the current."
"Let's just go with the flow."
If we keep stubbornly doing things that can't be done,
we'll only become bruised and get hurt.
So we thought, "Let's not do that and just go with the flow."
"Let's live like we're one with the stream."
[♪ upbeat music playing, BTS "Life Goes On"]
All right.
- That's perfect. - That was good.
It's good right now.
Just keep doing that.
That was good.
[♪ upbeat music playing, BTS "Life Goes On"]
[indistinct chatter]
[soft chuckle]
This is so heavy!
[RM] It feels like we ran a half marathon.
Once you're over three or four miles,
you don't know if you're moving of your own volition
or if your limbs are moving you.
You have no idea as to where you are.
And I thought I was only going to run three to four miles,
but I ended up going to the Olympics.
And an American broadcasting network is broadcasting our marathon.
That's what this all feels like.
So I'm like, "I really want to take a break now."
But people are like, "Are you crazy?"
"You're on global television and everything."
"What are you saying?" "You have to keep going."
We pushed on like that for the past three or four years.
One of our members put it this way.
All we wanted to do was to watch the view from our hot-air balloon,
but it's so scary now that we happened to reach outer space.
[V] I think that really sums up what we're feeling.
Others may not understand,
but our goal was never to reach this high.
We just rode that hot-air balloon into the sky
because we wanted to travel around
and see the beautiful scenery.
But we ended up going through the atmosphere,
where things got dark, and we realized that we were in space.
We'd see stars and the planets.
I've come back to my initial question.
"What did I want to do?"
[trilling]
[♪ upbeat music playing, BTS "Life Goes On"]
[mutters]
I've come back to the point of asking myself
why I wanted to do this.
[RM] If the sole purpose of my twenties
was to explore outside of the norm to get us to a certain position
and give ourselves an identity,
I think the purpose of my thirties
would be to discover myself.
[♪ upbeat music playing, BTS "Life Goes On"]
[music fades]
[birds chirping]
[Jin] The burn I got earlier hurts.
- You got burned? - Does it really hurt?
Put ice on it.
I'm too lazy.
[friend 1] Endure it.
I tried to endure it when I tore a ligament.
[friend 1 laughs] I don't think that's how that works.
I tried to power through, but my friends sent me to a doctor.
[friend 1] Of course. That's good.
Then the doctor told me that I had torn my ligament.
It would have been really bad if I had tried to endure it.
You wouldn't be able to use your finger then.
You told your parents I had nothing to do with it, right?
[laughter]
- Please. - I bet your mother doesn't like Gunhan.
She likes him, actually.
"Won't you lose your finger if you hang out with him again?"
[laughter]
My mother likes Gunhan though.
She believes that I was able to debut
because I hung out with him instead of studying.
[laughter]
- Is that right? - So it's a good thing.
[Jin] We meet up about six times a week when we can.
About once or twice a week
when we're too busy.
[Jin] When I'm out working, they'll hang out at my house
playing video games
and greet me when I get home.
When I leave the house, they hang out among themselves and leave.
I know a few celebrities,
and they all say that friends like that are rare.
I'm glad and relieved.
[Jung Kook] I'm going to a place that helps me manage my body and aptitude.
I'm on my way to get an IV.
This is the raw, unedited version of my life.
Whenever I'm on break,
I go to the hospital. [soft chuckle]
Is it a hospital? I guess it is.
[doctor] Have you been drinking the tea we gave you?
[Jung Kook] Oh, no. I'm sorry.
[doctor laughs]
[Jung Kook chuckles]
- [Jung Kook] I haven't drunk it even once. - [doctor] Not a single time?
You must take two Omega-3 pills,
- one after lunch and one after dinner. - [Jung Kook] Okay.
[doctor] And one vitamin D pill before you sleep.
[Jung Kook] Okay.
I didn't expect my first scheduled event
to be that big.
It's pretty overwhelming.
[singing "Dreamers"]
[Jung Kook] It's my first time.
I didn't expect my first solo performance to be this big.
There were about 60,000 people.
And I think we had about 70 dancers.
Someone said there were more than 70 dancers.
[♪ upbeat music playing, Jung Kook ft. Fahad Al Kubaisi "Dreamers"]
[Jung Kook] I just want to live a wonderful life,
regardless of how popular I am or how much money I've got.
I want to create things like videos, art, or photography
together with my people.
It's another challenge in a way.
I'll have to rise up to the occasion alone.
I'm not letting go of BTS though.
Of course, BTS would come first.
If there comes a time to gather together as a team again,
I'll return immediately.
[camera shutter clicking]
[j-hope] I'm getting tired.
But I'm glad I came down to visit.
I try to document everything as much as I can.
I'm a history-keeping addict.
Our team went on a trip together just before 2020.
Look here.
We picked strawberries.
[chuckles]
I was so ugly.
We were walking together.
Things like this… Jin is driving here.
[laughs]
What's with his sunglasses? [laughing]
[j-hope] My wish is for everyone to take things slow and to be patient.
The more impatient you are,
the more physically tired and mentally devastated you become.
It's a common occurrence.
I always hope that BTS can stay a team
and be healthy no matter what awaits us.
I believe BTS' next step
is to keep things going regardless of what happens.
And regardless of the process,
I believe it would be meaningful and great if we stayed united.
[Jung Kook] It's pretty, right?
Yes, it's pretty. Sakura blossoms.
I occasionally have sudden thoughts about how or why I'm like this right now.
I wonder how I've gotten here.
I used to live in a place called Ildong Apartments
back in Mandeok, Busan.
I would compare my life now to what it was back then
and think, "Is this right?" [chuckles]
"Am I really living here?"
It doesn't feel real sometimes.
When we were trainees, and during the time when we just debuted,
we lived in small spaces where there were a lot of mosquitoes.
It was really hot, and we barely had any clothes.
We had a lot of fun, and it was lively, but…
Nowadays, when I'm by myself,
I start to realize that we did a lot together.
I talk about the past a lot with my friends.
We would talk about how we used to do certain things
or how we used to be then.
It's a bit surreal that I've come this far.
I believe we overcame everything because we had more happy days.
But if there had been more hard days,
it wouldn't have been easy to remember those happy moments.
But I experienced a lot of happy moments,
and I'm here thanks to those moments.
I believe those moments helped me overcome my troubles.
[Jung Kook] I can't clearly state how I lived.
I just didn't want to leave myself alone.
I was worried that I was using up the things I had built up within myself,
that they were disappearing.
I've found out that it's not good for me to just rest.
I tend to stop planning for my future.
Instead of being busy just to achieve a goal,
I want to be busy
doing what's fun for me and what I want to do.
I'm thinking about living my life like a trainee again.
[singing]
[singing continues]
- Should we raise it up an octave? - Should we? Okay.
[vocalizing]
[laughs]
- [in English] Oh, shit! - It's good.
[Jimin] There were times I worked hard
because I wanted our team to be successful together,
times when I was forced to do it by someone else,
and times when I did it out of arrogance.
I went through a lot of processes to come this far.
[Jimin] I believe that now is the time to try a lot of different things.
I want to do something that's more fun than laborious.
Let's go.
[laughs]
[in English] You excited about your new solo album?
Yeah.
It's going to be big hits, big tunes.
[laughs]
[applauding]
- Let's do it! - Let's do it.
[♪ light music playing]
[friend 1] When I still had my cat at home…
I think he had a cast on his arm then.
He came over and took a photo with the cat in his arms.
- The odd-eyed cat? - Yeah.
But I liked that about Seokjin.
He's the one who comes to things on time when everyone else is late.
- You were always on time. - For sure.
That's the bare minimum, you guys.
I still go crazy about my BTS members being late to things.
[laughter]
"Hurry up and come out."
[Jin] It's not like I won't be able to live without being with the team.
And it's not like something bad will happen if we're not together.
There are different things each of us wants for ourselves.
We should cheer one another on
while we pay attention to the things
we need to do together.
Then I think we'll get one step closer
to finding happiness in our lives.
There is nothing I want from them,
whether it be tangible or in quantity.
They just need to live their lives as artists.
The only thing I want
is that no matter how much time passes, the members and I continue to love music
and meet up occasionally to talk about it and have fun.
I think the natural results of their choices are important.
It's important that those results lead to individual happiness
and satisfaction from making the right decisions.
There's no problem with your pronunciation.
Okay.
- Good job. - [Jimin] Thank you.
Thank you for your hard work.
- Great work. - [staff 1] Great work.
[sighs]
[Pdogg] Jimin said he wants you to help him with the chorus of his song.
- Oh, really? - [Pdogg] Yes.
I wonder what chorus…
[chuckles]
- I made a fan song. - Yes?
- And it'd be nice if you sang the chorus. - I see.
- How much are you paying me? - What?
[laughs]
- Just name your price. - [laughing]
Let me hear it first.
The part we need to work on…
[Jimin] ♪ I'm unsure of what to say ♪
I love it already.
♪ I'm unsure of how to say it ♪
♪ It's a clumsy process ♪
♪ I know it's been said before ♪
[Jung Kook] To be honest, there were many times when I created music
for the sole purpose of becoming something,
including the one I recently worked on.
I wanted to achieve something.
[Jung Kook] The lyrics are sincere and genuine,
but sometimes I want to go back to the past.
I want to create music to express what we want,
to expand our musical abilities,
or to dedicate to the fans.
[Jimin] It feels like the past 10 years crept up on us.
Well…
A lot of emotional situations happened in that period of time.
[Jimin] When I look back,
I see that many things have happened.
I talked to my parents,
my friends, the other members,
and even our fans.
Like other artists,
I think that's how we were able to grow.
The way that you sang along with us…
[crowd screaming]
I was so touched by that, and it was a huge gift to me.
[Jimin] Even after today,
I will never forget how you've moved me
and any other things you've given me.
[crowd cheering]
♪ When we were together ♪
♪ The desert became an ocean ♪
[RM] How should I put it? I don't want to remain a boy forever.
But my child-like innocence,
the inspiration I get from being on stage,
and my sincerity toward the fans
will forever be engraved in my heart like a core memory.
As I mentioned before, I can recall them by thinking back to
our 2016 Olympic Gymnastics Arena concert or our showcase.
Your forever audience
Moving forward,
I want my maturity
to match that of someone in his thirties.
When someone asks me if I'm doing well,
I'm able to say that I'm doing really well.
It's all thanks to you.
[crowd screaming]
[RM] It's true.
I really want you all to remember that.
Please don't forget that all of you
made it possible for the seven of us
to live a wonderful life.
BTS blooms within ARMY's hearts
♪ It may be scary and frightening ♪
♪ But don't forget that we're together ♪
♪ I know it's been said before ♪
♪ But I wanted to say it again ♪
♪ So that it can reach you ♪
♪ Don't worry I'll stay by your side, yeah ♪
♪ We don't know what the future holds ♪
Let's listen to it.
- Thank you, Jung Kook. - Jimin.
[Jung Kook groans]
Thank you.
The song is really nice.
I appreciate it.
- Jimin actually played the guitar. - Really?
Jimin played the beginning on his guitar and sent it to me.
[♪ mellow music playing]
We used it as is.
Oh, really?
We lifted this part.
- We used the guitar part as is. - Really?
You're going to record a message to the fans at the end.
- What? - [both laugh]
[Pdogg] Why are you lying to him?
It's your song. Why would I do that?
- Let's say that it's your song. - No.
[Jimin] There are a lot of things I want to do
now that I am challenging myself to do things
with the other members' support.
[Jimin] Doing things by myself is so much fun
now that I've experienced it.
I want to do even better, and I know what I lack.
This is something I've discussed with the other members.
BTS exists, and I exist within BTS.
So I desperately want to continue our lives together for a long time.
[indistinct chatter]
My precious hair.
I never liked how my hair lifted in the back.
Why does it lift in the back?
[exclaims]
The members said they'd come to watch. Where are they?
Oh, what's this? Speak of the devil.
- You're next in line. - Hello.
Hello.
[Jin] Well, look who it is.
I didn't expect Jung Kook to come at all.
- We can't miss out on a good spectacle. - Of course not.
[Jung Kook] I just woke up. I set an alarm for you.
[V] First of all, it's important that we safely complete our military service.
I hope everyone comes back healthy.
I think that will be a good start for our "take two."
We worry about one another the more we're apart,
so I hope no one gets hurt.
After all of us come back,
I hope we can make plans to continue to paint precious memories
together with ARMY.
[razor buzzing]
[Jin] Serving in the military would take…
at least a year and a half to two years.
That's about how long it would take.
I wonder if that time apart will hold any meaning.
[Jin] In the past, it was important that we stayed together every day.
But now that 10 years have passed…
You don't have to…
always be together to be family.
You're family as long as your hearts are one.
[♪ mellow music playing, BTS "Take Two"]
[reporter 1] BTS has announced
that solo activities are in store for their second act.
First in line, j-hope has released his solo album.
[j-hope] I think it's time for BTS
to have faith in one another.
This should be the case for all the members
and the fans who love, listen to, and watch us.
[reporter 2] The oldest member, Jin, is preparing his first solo single album
before enlisting.
We've already come to understand each other
just by looking into each other's eyes.
[Jin] I want to thank the members
for always being passionate.
[♪ mellow music playing, BTS "Take Two"]
[RM] I was able to live an intense life in my twenties,
as anyone in their twenties would do.
I think I'm extremely fortunate to have six other members
with whom I can openly share my concerns and troubles.
I'm going to continue to challenge myself and move forward,
but it's a lot of weight to remember and carry the past 10 years with me.
[reporter 3] BTS Jimin's solo song, Like Crazy,
has topped the singles chart on the US Billboard Hot 100.
BTS has topped the list as a K-pop group before,
but this is the first time a solo K-pop artist has won the top spot.
[Jimin] I finally feel like
we're opening our chapter two.
[in English] It's a great record. Congratulations on this.
What does D-Day mean to you?
[in Korean] It's the day I became free from all sorts of shackles.
That's why I called it D-Day.
[SUGA] While working on the recent Agust-D album,
I tried to reflect on all the things that happened in the past.
All of us worked really hard
to make it this far.
I want to thank everyone
for relying on and supporting one another while coming all this way.
[Jung Kook] I don't know what will happen in my future.
But I will try my best
to take a few steps closer to the general idea of the final picture
that I've drawn for myself.
And I hope that one day I'll be able to complete the picture.
[reporter 4] BTS' V has announced that he's working on a new album
as the team's seventh solo artist.
[V] I'm so glad that I met the other members.
The more time I spent with the other members,
the more I understood what it meant to be satisfied.
And to ARMY all over the world…
[j-hope] They were the wings that allowed us to soar around the world.
I want to thank them for that.
[SUGA] We should focus on the present
and not be anxious about the future.
We should focus on what we're able to do right now
and quietly move forward like we always have.
Regardless of the form we take, even if we may change,
I hope that BTS can stay BTS.
I hope there's a new future ahead of us.
I'm thankful that…
we remained 7 for the past 10 years.
[♪ mellow music playing]
[♪ mellow music playing, BTS "Spring Day"]
Translated by Rebekah Kim