【Hanryupia 2015 February Issue】Catch up with BTS: Relay Interview vol.14 - JIN x JUNGKOOK + mini interview: J-HOPE’s trans
1992.12.4/O/Vocal. Born in Gwacheon. Charming point: fleshy lips and broad shoulders. He has a nickname of ‘handsome shoulder guy’. Habit: when he’s hungry, his left eye blinks.
1997.9.1/A/Rap & Dance. He learnt Taekwondo, basketball and badminton in his childhood. Last year, he covered Zion.T’s ‘Yanghwa Bridge’ with his own lyrics and named it ‘Working’, and covered Crush’s ‘Sofa’.
JUNGKOOK: Jin and Jungkook, so we’re JinKook~.
JIN: The unit name is rubbish (laughs) do we have to make one, didn’t we make one before?
JUNGKOOK: Ah! Right, right! I think it was 4 characters.
JUNGKOOK: Generation difference!
JIN: Because we have the biggest age difference in BTS.
JUNGKOOK: Yeah. 5 years’ difference.
JIN: But we don’t give off the feeling of ‘the oldest’ and ‘the youngest’. Speaking of age, we’re ‘hyung’ and ‘dongsaeng’ but in reality we have a relationship like classmates.
JUNGKOOK: At first, shall I call it walls, I cared about many things. But then we became comfortable with each other, we went out to play, ate, played games and worked out together. To be honest, there are times where I feel that you’re younger than me.
JUNGKOOK: When we talk about manga and figures. And when I see you collecting them, I’m not saying you seem younger but it’s kind of cute.
JIN: You don’t understand. Collecting figures is those who are older than the young kids likes to do!
JUNGKOOK: Hmm. Do you ever feel that I’m older than you Jin hyung?
JIN: Well. I’ve always thought you’re young but you’re amazing. You have the above-average skills in nearly everything. I’m always surprised thinking “we’re both humans, how can you be so talented at this age!” I only remember playing games when I was at Jungkook’s age. I was addicted to online games, I stayed and played games in the PC room for about 11 hours everyday. I miss those days~.
JUNGKOOK: (laughs) that’s what youth is. What will I be doing when I get to Jin hyung’s age?
JIN: What do you want to do?
JUNGKOOK: Well… Compose songs and write lyrics? I want to do everything that I want to do. Work out a lot, sing songs and then acting…?
JUNGKOOK: I don’t know yet (laughs).
JUNGKOOK: Do you remember the time we first met? When the hoobae trainees were visiting the sunbae trainees to see how they practice, both of us were in the same group.
JIN: When I was observing (the sunbaes), Jungkook came in. At the time, I thought “this kid is cute, with his perfectly round, googly eyes.” But now it has turned out like this (laughs).
JUNGKOOK: What do you mean? (laughs) Before I came to Seoul, I haven’t seen many handsome guys, so when I saw Jin hyung, I thought “oh handsome people like this really exists in the world”. I was purely impressed.
JIN: (laughs with satisfaction) Speaking of the trainee days, we went out to eat a lot. I remember when we had singing lessons outside of the company, we used to eat together after the lessons everyday and then we went back to the dormitory together. Always asked for different menus. It was fun.
JUNGKOOK: Here we go again, it’s about food (again).
JUNGKOOK: Ah, I want to go and have some singing lessons.
JIN: I want to see the teachers.
JUNGKOOK: Speaking of food, what we have in common is that we like to cook. Even now, I help out when Jin hyung cooks.
JIN: I feel that the food tastes better thanks to Jungkook for helping me out (laughs).
JUNGKOOK: No, all I did was helping you…
JIN: Please take care of me in the future as well.
JUNGKOOK: Please leave it to me! Any other requests?
JIN: Um.. that’s enough, please stop growing taller (laughs) I’m the second tallest in BTS right now, if Jungkook grows a little bit taller, you will be taller than me. But you were 173 cm before and now you’re 177 cm? You will be taller than me, it’s just a matter of time.
JUNGKOOK: You don’t need to worry about that. I went to the hospital and had a check up, they said that I’ve stopped growing.
JUNGKOOK: Ah. It’s not the whole body, I think it’s just the lower half part of the body will stop growing. So that means if I continue to grow, my legs will be relatively short!?
JIN: Huhuhu (evil laughs) No one knows about that. Anyways, do you have any requests?
JUNGKOOK: Um- well… You’ve been treating me well, so there’s nothing in particular ♥
JIN: You just find it troublesome to think of something right?
JUNGKOOK: No no, it’s not (laughs) I really mean it. ♥
Mini Interview - Food part: J-HOPE
Q1: Tell us about you own crazy way of eating!
A1: I eat sundae (Korean sausage) dipped in red chili-pepper paste with vinegar, and I put sugar in Kongguksu (noodles served in a cold soy milk broth) instead of salt! It’s my hometown Gwangju’s unique way of eating. The members thinks it’s weird.
Q2: Your favorite Korean dish and the reason?
A2: The snacks and brass chafing dish that you would see in the royal court cuisine! I’ve always liked Korean dishes such as vegetables and kimchi. After the age of 20, I prefer to eat simple (plain) foods than greasy foods (laughs).
D.O.B: 1994.2.18
Blood type: A
Position: Rap & dance
Fact: He is full of vitality, mood maker of the group. And his older sister is really beautiful!
