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Oct 23, 2017

[TRANS] Jin Recipe : Hungry Jin Chicken

It’s time for yet another translation of a Jin recipe. Are you ready for some Jin fun? Translation notes: I shall translate as true to the original Korean as possible, only changing the phrasings when the sentence otherwise wouldn't make sense in English. Instructions that Jin wrote directly on the photos will be translated below the photos. Translation notes will be in square brackets and grey [like this] and expect a few of them as Jin has been a good joker from the start,

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Oct 12, 2017

Secrets of Satoori Rap

Did you know that BTS were on the news two years before their debut? Back then the group had been given the name BTS but it only had three members: RM, Suga and J-Hope. The vocal line hadn’t even signed with BigHit yet. But BTS already had a song out that impressed, and that song was 팔도강산 (PalDoGangSan) often referred to as Satoori Rap. The song was later re-recorded and included on their O!RUL8,2? album, but it was created back in the day, and was one of the first songs to b

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Jul 23, 2017

The Hwagae Market Mystery

Have you ever wondered why J-Hope and Suga have named their joint broadcasts Hwagae Market? Have you ever wondered why they open the market doors at the beginning and close them before they leave? What Hwagae Market even is? In this blog post, I shall answer all of these questions. They could easily have decidede to call their broadcasts Sope, since they have also decided to give their won ship and official name, but they didn't. So... What is Hwagae Market? And I mean the

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May 28, 2017

The White Tiger of BTS

In 'Give It To Me' Agust D labels himself as a tiger, a powerful choice of words, especially from a cultural perspective. Let me show you why... "범으로 태어나 개처럼 살수는 없지" Born as a tiger, so I can't live like a dog. - Give It To Me : Agust D - These lyrics are really interesting to me from a Korean language perspective. Tigers are symbols of power and courage, whereas dogs are symbols of obedient followers. However, there's a little more to it than that, and here are some referenc

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Apr 27, 2017

Suga the Underground Beat-maker

You might all think that the first beat Suga made for another artist was his song 'Wine' for Suran. You'd be wrong. Before debut, before joining the trainee path to becoming an idol, before signing with BigHit, Suga was already making music. He didn't do it under either of his current stage names, Suga or Agust D. He did it under his real name, Min Yoongi and his stage name back then, Gloss (a direct translation into English of his real name: Yoongi). And if you really dig fo

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Jan 12, 2017

Love your biases, not everything they do

An encouragement of self love. #LoveYourself Campaign I don't always agree with what my bias says or does. Some things even annoy me, and yet I still love him. As an example, I love hearing Suga's talk (Suga is my bias in case you haven't noticed), but the way he slurps his spit when he is considering something, like an old man, really gets on my nerves sometimes. Sometimes it makes me smile, and then other times I can't hear anything but that slurping sound. (BTS talk about

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Why a controversy is my Favourite BTS moment

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