1. As soon as you got to the amusement park, you touched all of the rides. Which one did you like the most?
V: I was excited because there were things that I couldn’t ride when I was younger. I like the squirrel container- the one where you fly around. I really like amusement parks; I especially like the gyro drop, gyro swing, and roller coasters. Usually, I’m scared of ghosts, can’t touch gross things, and am scared of heights, but rides are different. It feels secure, but it’s thrilling at the same time.
2. During the photoshoot, you didn’t seem to move around freely. Was it awkward?
V: My model friends say that pictures don’t turn out very well if you move around too much. I listened to them and stopped moving around too much, and the the pictures really did come out better. I try to make poses while looking at photoshoots from Gongyoo sunbaenim and GD sunbaenim, but I haven’t been able to find my right poses yet. I’m just at the point where I don’t have to be looking forward for pictures.
3. You’re famous for being a member who fools around a lot, but are there members that tease you as well?
V: It would be Suga hyung, if anyone. I’ll be lying down, and he’ll come to me and say “You rascal, are you tired?” and grab and bother me. (laughs) Rapmon hyung makes jokes while rhyming, and he can’t be followed. If I try, it turns out like “Hyung, I’ll say now horse?”, “Hold the sword and call your friend.”
(T/N: They’re supposed to be puns, but don’t make any sense in English;;)
4. You like animations, right? What have you been watching lately?
V: I’ve seen all of <One Piece>. But aside for Jin hyung, the other members don’t really like animations. Really, if you watch it once you’ll fall in love, but they don’t watch even if I tell them about it. Someone lives and someone dies, it was a touching story, but I’m disappointed because I can’t share it with the members.
5. You’ve been constantly composing. Did your skills improve?
V: I’ve been keeping my distance from composing. I’ll make a melody and try to write certain lyrics, but those certain lyrics won’t come to me. It’s only things like “I really love you” or “It’s only you.” I’m going to wait until I can do a little better.
6. I heard you are studying Japanese. How much have you learned?
V: I can hold a normal conversation. I think I’m improving because I speak a little with Japanese fans that come to our fansigns. I like words like ‘komibako’ (trash can) and ‘guragura’ (shaking). The word ‘komi’ means trash, but doesn’t it sound nice? Komi…komi…komi…(laughs) It gets stuck in my head. Normally, I got tutored in Japanese with Rapmon hyung, but, maybe because he’s in the top 1%, that hyung has his own way of studying. If he comes across a word he doesn’t know, he writes it on a memo pad on his phone, or on a big notebook. I think “He might as well write it on his hand.” (laughs)
7. There seem to be a lot of things that you learn or do as a hobby. Are you the type that gets sick of something quickly?
V: Yes. I learned saxophone for 3 years, but after resting for 4 years, my skills haven’t gotten any better, and my mouth just hurts when I try to practice again. I used to have my own unique sound, but after hearing myself sound the same as any other woodwind, I decided to stop. I won an award by playing the song ‘Desperado’ by the Eagles, so I thought I could take the world by storm with that one song, but more and more people were beginning to play it. I tried to find another song, but then I was casted into BTS, so I had to stop.
8. You say that you have a good fashion sense. What is your standard for choosing clothes?
V: I like to give a point with just one color. If I match my outfit to be black, I’ll give a point with a bandana, or if I don’t have one, I’ll wear a unique hat, or a round hat that isn’t quite a snapback. There’s nothing I can’t pull off. Nothing is impossible. If the hat doesn’t look good on me, I can just change the clothes. If I find a unique hat that I like, I will buy pants and shoes to go along with it, all at once. If I buy clothes like that, I don’t buy any clothes for 5 months.
9. They say your character is loved by all the members. What is your secret?
V: I treat everyone like friends, regardless of age. That way, the younger people don’t feel intimidated, and we can fool around with cool ideas. Sometimes I can feel that the people around me care about me. Sometimes, I’ll listen to a friend’s problems and they’ll say “You’re the only person I’ve told” or if I can’t contact my friends for a while, they’ll say “I miss you, friend.” On my birthday, I’ve received 50 really long katalk messages before.
10. You’re known to be 4D normally. Is there anything where you think “I’ve even thought about this”?
V: I think about racy things, but usually I think that I came become Iron Man. I plan things out because I want to fly. If I take parts off of a plane for myself, and fill it with jet fuel, then I think I will be able to fly.
1. You were good at stepping on bugs during the shoot. Are you the type that doesn’t get scared easily?
Jungkook: I dislike all bugs except cool bugs like beetles or stag beetles. When I was younger, I had a stag beetle, but it died quickly because I didn’t raise it well. I caught it in the mountains and put it in a container at home…In the summer, I caught 3 or 4 crawfish in the mountains and raised them. At the time, I didn’t know anything, so I left them outside, and they cooked and died… I didn’t even get to name them, so I was sad.
2. Have you raised any other animals?
Jungkook: I have a maltese at home. It’s name is ‘Gureum’ (cloud) and I miss him/her a lot. Both of my parents work, and my brother is in the army, so Gureum is always alone. I jokingly asked the hyungs if we could raise a dog in our dorm, but they said no. They said a dog needs to be raised in a good environment, but our dorm only has clothes and shoes, and no people, so that dog will die quickly.
3. You entered high school recently. What is your favorite subject?
Jungkook: Exercising or art; I dislike everything except for music. I like gym class, and I have the most fun when playing dodgeball or badminton. Ever since middle school, I was good at throwing the ball really hard in dodgeball. I think I’m a fast learner when it comes to doing stuff with my body. Earth science is really hard. But I’m the type who thinks it’s important to try hard in other things if I can’t do something, so I neatly gave up on earth science.
4. Is there any resolutions you’ve made now that you’re 18?
Jungkook: When I was younger I thought that everything would just come to me eventually, but now I think that I need to take initiative and practice to improve myself. Last year, I practiced because I had to, but now I do it on my own. I even started to read a book. It’s called <1cm+> and it was a present from a fan. I read when I don’t have a schedule or before I go to sleep. While I’m reading, I think “If I read, then I’ll become better at speaking then I am now, right?”
5. The hyungs say you building up your muscles is pushing them to do the same. What made you start exercising?
Jungkook: Before, the hyungs would exercise and I wouldn’t, but one day, I saw Taeyang sunbaenim and Jay Park sunbaenim and thought that I wanted to build up my body too. The hyungs exercise along with me too, but there’s no sense of competitiveness. I think exercise needs to be done scientifically. For example, I’ll use 6kg weights because I’m 65kg. I don’t really notice, but people around me told me that my muscles got bigger.
6. Putting your title of a singer aside, what kind of man does the boy, Jungkook, think is cool?
Jungkook: Isn’t a man someone who doesn’t care about what others think? A man that does whatever he wants. But even though I say this, I’m actually quite timid, so this description is very different than how I actually am. If I work hard, I could probably become a cool man quickly, but when I’m 20, I think I will be able to be fashionable, sing well, write songs well, and write lyrics well.
7. After looking at the drawings you upload, you seem to have your own style. When did you start drawing?
Jungkook: Everyone in my family is good at drawing, so I copied them when I was young. My dad, amazingly, drew a picture called “Baby, let’s go.” He copied Park Shinyang’s art, but it looks the same. I thought an artist drew it. My older brother and mom are god at drawing, and I am the worst. I never learned formally, so my expression through drawing doesn’t do my imagination justice. Sometimes I draw the members with a pen. The easiest thing to draw was Rapmon hyung when he used to wear sunglasses and have curly hair.
8. Now that you’re a year older, are there times when you feel like you’ve gotten old?
Jungkook: The wrinkles by my eyes….suddenly there’s so many. Is it because I smile so much? Not that I use eye cream or pay any attention to them. More than that, I think I used to complain a lot to the hyungs when I was younger. Now, when the hyungs say things that I don’t like, I realize that I must think before speaking.
9. Is it that you can’t fix your Busan accent, or is it that you aren’t?
Jungkook: It’s true that I can’t fix it, but I also don’t try to. I guess you could call it a Busan man’s pride. There’s something like that. I want to mix the Seoul accent and Busan accent when I speak. Jimin hyung is also from Busan, and V hyung is from Daegu, so if I think about it, I use an accent less frequently than they do. Although my accents pops out when I don’t pay attention.
10. I heard that you started to play the guitar recently. What is the reaction of the people around you?
Jungkook: After seeing how Justin Bieber not only sings, but also plays the drums and guitar, I starting practicing. I can’t practice very much, but I’ve been looking at a book and playing acoustic guitar for about a month, but the hyungs don’t really seem to care. It might be because he is competitive, but after seeing me play guitar, V hyung started to learn also. There are a lot of things that V hyung wants to do, but it doesn’t seem like he can do one thing for a long time. Jiming hyung and I talk about this sometimes. (laughs) If hyung hears this, might be a little bothered, right?
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