BTS

About BTS

(two, three) Room! burnt! Hello, this is BTS! This is the team greeting method in Korea, and leader RM even says “Two, three!”

burnt! Hello, this is BTS! Hello, we are BTS! A seven-member boy group under Big Hit Music in South Korea that debuted on June 13, 2013.

Group Name

In the name BTS (防彈少年團), Bangtan means ‘blocks bullets.’ “It contains the profound meaning that we will prevent the hardships, prejudice, and oppression that teenagers experience in their lives,” he said. The team name BTS itself had already been chosen by Big Hit in 2010. #3.3. Status and popularity For more information, please refer to the BTS/Status and Popularity document.

Identity

BTS was originally a music group formed with the concept of hip-hop music, not a popular idol group. At the beginning of their formation, they attempted to debut as a hip-hop group with RM at the center, and had a concept of focusing on singing and rapping rather than choreography. About 30 trainees, including currently active famous rappers such as Beenzino, Basic, Iron, REDDY, and Loco, went through the project, and after undergoing a major concept change, it became the current idol group format. The skills of Rapper Line, who already had experience as a rapper, are evaluated as being quite good, and the proportion of rap in the song as a whole is quite high. And most of the members have the ability to write and compose lyrics, showing their potential as singer-songwriters. The members said that BTS's music and early group concept were greatly influenced by Epik High.

Source

This profile summary is translated and adapted from the Namu Wiki article on BTS. Concert and event data is sourced from Interpark NOL.