One fringe good thing about talking—or slowly however absolutely studying—Korean? You’ll be a lot higher at following BTS lyrics. However fortunately for all of us, 4 members of the enduring Okay-pop group just lately joined Vogue to show somewhat Korean 101… and belief us, we’re taking notes.
The boys know nicely that quirky idioms don’t at all times translate. As RM remembers, “At one in every of our US live shows in perhaps 2018, one of many crew members mentioned to me, ‘Yo, break a leg.’ It was proper earlier than we went onstage, so I used to be like, ‘What? Break a leg?’ These are the sorts of nuances in language which are troublesome.” Nonetheless, the band bravely soldiered on of their lesson, strolling the viewers by means of widespread Korean phrases and phrases like 가보자고, or “gabojago” (“Let’s go!”), and 치맥, or “chimaek” (the favored South Korean culinary mixture of fried hen and beer).
There are some Korean phrases that don’t have a one-to-one equal in American English (although a few of them—comparable to 눈치, or “nunchi,” which means “social consciousness” or “studying the air,” completely ought to!), however BTS’s endurance in decoding and contextualizing a very good variety of them proves that not solely are they genre-defining musical artists, however fairly nice lecturers, too.
Director: Yohan Yoon
Editor: JY Chun
Producer: Chase Lewis
Affiliate Producer: Lea Donenberg
Manufacturing Assistant: Jaybe Lee
Manufacturing Coordinator: Tanía Jones
Manufacturing Supervisor: Kristen Helmick
Line Producer: Natasha Soto-Albors
Assistant Editor: Andy Morell
Submit Manufacturing Coordinator: Holly Frew
Supervising Editor: Kameron Key
Submit Manufacturing Supervisor: Alexa Deutsch
World Leisure Director: Sergio Kletnoy
Government Producer: Rahel Gebreyes
Senior Director, Digital Video: Romy van den Broeke
Senior Director, Programming: Linda Gittleson
VP, Video Programming: Thespena Guatieri
Particular Thanks: SECONDLIVE
