[V.Friends S4] Protect BTS Village

• Something precious must be protected because there’s going to be some people who want to steal it. That’s also happen to ARMY stone in BTS Village. There are outsiders from Blue Village who secretly spying as BTS Villagers. So the villagers need to protect the village and ARMY stone from the Blue villagers. However, who are they among them? BTS villagers must find them out!
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  BTS RUN in episode 47 brought the theme of BTS Village. The location took place in in Korean Job World. The place looked like an indoor amusement park, where children can play several jobs to decide what they will want to be, when grown up. So, in this episode each member of BTS has their own role as workers.
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  J-Hope is a head of J-Hope Mart, where you can buy foods and things at. Jimin is a delivery man in the village, while Jungkook is newbie policeman. V is a patisserie of bakery in BTS village, while Suga is the owner of flower shop who brings flower everywhere he goes. Meanwhile, RM who doesn’t have a driving license and can’t drive is mechanic in the village. Lastly, Jin is the president of MG Bank.
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  As I mentioned before, their mission in BTS village is to protect the village from the outsiders, which come from Blue Village wants to steal ARMY stone. So, BTS members must find the hints to found out the identities of outsiders among the members. Otherwise, the outsiders also need to find hints to make the villagers confused. .
  Like in real life which have days and nights, so does BTS village. Funnily, it has days for only 20 minutes and night for 10 minutes. When the night passed, Jin even asked that made me laugh “don’t we need to sleep?”
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  In the day, they need to find hints about the outsiders. At night, they have tk gather in Village Hall to discuss the hints they found and find who the outsiders are. In the last night they need to point out who the outsiders are.
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• BTS members diligently searched for the hints in all places. They also shared the hint they got to other members. If they found a hint that make someone seems suspicious, they will tell secretly the hint to other members and sometimes also say it out loud to suspect a certain member is an outsider.
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  Several hints they got sometime not easy to understand. They have to think it logically, analyze carefully, and be critical. Just like, when J-Hope got a hint to find something in lost and found box, but ended up went to lockers. The lockers are locked and there are questions in each lockers that need to be solved to unlock. The questions were such a logical test that we need to think out of the box.
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  After all trial, J-Hope finally could open the door and got crucial hint about the outsiders. That was a picture of blue clothes. At the same time, Jimin who wore a blue vest came. Members who was there, J-Hope and Jin directly suspected him. However, Jimin calmly distracted and convinced J-Hope with the hint he got. He also tell other members about his hints
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  However, at the end, Jimin smiled mysteriously while he was away from other members. Is he the one of the outsiders? If yes, how cool his acting was, when trying to convince other members making a fuss woth the hints he got.
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  Unfortunately, we won't find the answer about the outsides. This episode will be continued next week. The preview for the next episode even makes me curious, because BTS members started to suspect each other with more hints they got, while the other try so hard to convinced that they are the villagers.
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  This episode reminds me of Running Man, where you have to find a spy among the members. BTS rarely goes on TV variety show when they comeback but it’s such a good thing that Big Hit made their own variety once a week instead. So they can play along with their members and can be themselves when playing this kind of variety show.
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  Indirectly this game also invites us to analyze and solve the hints in different way, exercising our brain with the logical questions. Also it made us guessing the spy among them by watching their reaction when get suspected by other members. Truely detective job

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[V.Friends S4] BTS Café: Theory and Making Coffee

• It has been half a year since BTS comeback last September 2017 and ARMY all over the world already miss them so much. Fortunately during that time, BTS still bless us with their weekly variety show twice a week in VLive. So, it can relieve our longing for them.
  
  This variety show is called BTS RUN. The theme of program in every week is different. It can be a skit drama, playing some games or learning other profession. The theme I will review for this article is BTS Café, which they will learn how to make a glass of coffee latte.
  
  Their costumes were already looked like a pro barista that they wore a white shirt and black apron, except for Jin, who wore a Cooky of BT21 costume as punishment of his lowest rank in previous episode.
  
  The show started by giving BTS a basic quiz about coffee, such as who the first Korean who tasted coffee is, who a well-known person that inspire a coffee brand’s name is, how long expiration of a coffee, and about their own song titled coffee. In the middle of this segment, Jin entertained us by giving a dad jokes that burst their fellow member and staffs into a laugh.
  
  To make a glass of coffee, there was an instructor who will teach them. He is Jang Hyun Woo, a judge of Korean Barista Championship in 2014. He first explained about the basic theory of coffee and they wrote down the information they got.
  
  Coffee was found in Ethiopia around 6th-7th centuries. Bean coffee that we drink basically is from the seeds that were removed from the flesh of coffee fruits. Coffee drinking culture came from Italy. When it is served, Italian will add sugar and take it for one shot. The feature of Italian’s Espresso is the balanced taste, instead of body/favor or the heaviness in mouth. Therefore, they add sugar while drink.
  
  Before BTS starting make their own latte, they will be taught about the coffee process or the term is packing. Firstly, they need to make espresso by dosing, it is a process where ground coffee will be poured into porter filter from a machine. Then do the leveling with finger to make the surface of ground coffee flat in the porter filter.
  
  After that, do the tamping by pressing the ground coffee once. Then, put the porter filter to the brew head or the machine coffee by turning it around till it’s clicked and inserted. We need to put the glass under it because the espresso will be out when we pressing brew button. Finally, we can taste the espresso. To check if the coffee we make comes from a fresh bean, we won’t see any black liquid when we pull the cup a bit.
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  Because Espresso might be bitter in the first drink, the instructor gave a way how to enjoy it better. Our mouth is coated with saliva, so we need to take it out by gargling the first sip of espresso and do not open our mouth while drinking, so that the fragrance will stay. The second sip will taste better, then enjoy the aroma and how smooth the coffee is. We also need to breathe out with the mouth close to enjoy the aftertaste.
  
  The espresso was ready, then BTS would taste it. They drank the way the instructor taught. But Suga and Jimin said that it tasted like red ginseng, while Jungkook’s frowning face couldn’t hide how bitter it is. However, because V doesn’t drink coffee, he didn’t taste it.
  
  Each of BTS members got a chance to make their own espresso. The instructor taught them how to steam milk to make the espresso become a latte. The steam milk will be poured on the top of coffee and make a heart shape. To make a heart shape, we need to pour the water almost a half of cup and stop it at the center. Viola! It became a cool heart and all member wowed it. All member also tried to make a heart shape. Funnily, it turned out to be an abstract shape lol. I think only V’s looked better.
  
  Finally, It was time for BTS making their own latte. RM made Shakerato latte, Jin made Rosy latte, Suga made Café Lemoni, J-Hope made Cocopresso latte, Jimin made Creamy latte, V made Injeolmi latte and Jungkook made Esproberry latte. And Jin’s coffee was picked as the best latte by the instructor.
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Basically, I really like this episode because it really taught me about a coffee from the very basic knowledge. It's such a new thing for me since I don’t really pay much attention for coffee. I also think that BTS didn’t only entertain us but also give us a good knowledge.

Another good things to see are the interaction and reaction of the members were also sweet and funny that made us not feel boring to watch them. They always compliment, care, and tease each other at the same time. Esp, when all member ordered hot chocolate for V and Jimin also drank coffee made by V because they know V doesn’t drink coffee.

However watching this, will also make you craving for a coffee. I found out many fans in social media said that they bought a coffee after watching this. Even they taste it the way BTS tasted the espresso. It also happened to me. I was craving for Espresso and directly go to a coffee shop to buy a cup of hot espresso and a signature coffee latte.

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V.Friends S3: Explore Hawaii with BTS

Last year, BTS and VLive+ were successfully held program “BTS Bon Voyage” in North Europe that was broadcasted in V App. This year they came back again with the new Season for BTS Bon Voyage in Hawaii. BTS Bon Voyage is a program, where BTS have a special trip abroad. During this trip they had to care everything by themselves without the help of their managers.

Since it’s aired in VLive+, for watching the package of BTS Bon Voyage Season 2, we have to buy coins in V App. The package is worth for 800 coins. There are 18 broadcasts that consist of 8 Episodes of BTS members’ trip, 8 episodes of Behind Cam, 1 video broadcast of BTS commentary live and photo essay of their trip.

The program package of BTS Bon Voyage Season 2 is really worth to buy because this package is like the package guide tour in Hawaii. Here, BTS showed us where the best places to explore, to stay, to hangout, to eat and other things we can do when we are in Hawaii. They will show us different places to explore in each episode.

Let’s explore Hawaii with BTS

There was a reason why Bon Voyage Season 2 was held in Hawaii. In BTS Bon Voyage Season I, all BTS members were asked where they wanted to travel to. Then they mostly answered want to go to Hawaii. So, V Live granted their wishes and they were so excited to explore Hawaii together for the first time.

In Hawaii they visited two Islands, Big Island and Oahu Island. In each island, they spent their trip for three days. The first day in Big Island, they started their trip by snorkeling in the ocean. We could see here how beautiful Hawaii under the sea and how BTS members all enjoyed swimming and diving there.

On the second day in Big Island, they continued their trip by visiting Akaka Waterfall in the day, seeing the beautiful sunset in Mauna Kea and enjoying the sky night in Observatory in Mauna Kea. Last day in Big Island, they were having a volcano tour. It was such one of the best experiences they had in Hawaii because in volcano tour they were able to see the active volcano in Hawaii from above by riding helicopter.

After enjoying their trip in Big Island, they spent another three days in Oahu Island. They had so many interesting activities while in Oahu Island. They had sharks tour, where they met the sharks in front their eyes. Naturally, it is the safe tour, because to meet the sharks, all BTS members are swimming inside a cage, while the sharks were swimming the outside. At first, Rap Monster and J-Hope were scared that the sharks would attack them. But once they dived in, they really enjoyed it and found it cool.

The next day, they were having their morning together in Kualoa Beach to have breakfast and play some games. In the day, they rode ATV in Kualao Ranch. Here, they visited the place where “King Kong: Skull Island” were filmed and a Dinosaurs Museum, where we can see the imitation of Dinosaurs’ skeleton. After that in the end of the day, they had cultural trip by visiting Polynesian Cultural Center to watch the folk dance and song.

Last day in Oahu Island, they spent their time by surfing on the ocean. Before start to surf, they first learnt it by the expert who can speak Korean. So, it’s easy for them to understand it. Then they started to conquer the wave in Waikiki beach. All BTS members really enjoyed surfing that they realized why people like to do this kind of water sport.

More than just a trip, it’s friendship trip

The goals of BTS Bon Voyage Season 2 were to renew the friendship among members and the meaning of each other. So everyday during the trip, they will be divided into 3 group to spend 3 hours together.

During friendship trip, the partner was always changed everyday. The staffs decided the partner with many different ways like from picking some food, taking a paper, playing mini bowling etc. However in the last day BTS members requested to have unusual partner, like Suga paired with V.

They may not use their personal cash to buy food and souvenirs during broadcast. The staff gave them some certain money. However to get the money, they had to do a mission or games. And the amount will be given differently according to the order of the winners of the games and mission. The first winner of course will get the highest, whereas the second and the last will be lower.

BTS members spent their friendship trip by searching the best place to eat according to the references they searched through Naver. They ate both local food and Korean food. No wonder, because when we are travelling, we should try the local food but sometimes we miss also our daily meals from our country.

They were having so much fun during the friendship trip. Not only search for food, they also played around together, got souvenir to mark their friendship, and even had serious conversations about their life and their future goals. From their conversation, we can learn many things such as hard work, feeling grateful for what we had, the meaning of life, and the meaning of friendship itself. In sort, their friendships always make me envy.

Boys in fun

As I mentioned earlier, BTS Bon Voyage Season 2 give us episodes of behind cam. This behind cam episode shows something that didn’t appear in regular episodes. Just like the name “behind cam”, it shows us what BTS members do when the camera looks “off” but actually it’s on. It could be something funnier or more serious and it will also make the scenes in regular episode becomes more detail.

For example, in regular episode Rap Monster asked Jin about definition of happiness for him and the reason why he asked him will be shown in behind cam. Behind cam also shows what BTS members do before and after woke up. Mostly in behind cam, they show us the video that being recorded by each of BTS members. In last episode, behind cam shows the interview of BTS members about the trip and also message for ARMY, their fans.

There are so many funny moments in BTS Bon Voyage Season 2 because we will be entertained by BTS members’ funny behaviors and acts during the trip. We could see how they enjoy the trip either as small group or as big group of 7 people. Take a look in episode 1, when they were having fun making a “music video” by themselves in shopping center in Hawaii that will make you laugh watching their funny acts.

Finally, BTS Bon Voyage Season 2 is worth to watch because it contains a lot of references for someone who is willing to travel in Hawaii or doesn’t know anything about Hawaii. It gives us insight about how good Hawaii is and what we can do and eat here. Even after watching this, I bought similar food they ate in this program and went to the beach in my country to spend my holiday. And I hope someday I will be able go to Hawaii.

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V.Friends S3: My Favorite Episode in August

BTS Bon Voyage Season 2 (BV S2) has reached its end on August 15. They have already completed 8 episode for BV and 8 episodes for Behind Came. BV is a program by VLive, that BTS have a special tour abroad. They have to take care everything during the tour by themselves without helps of their managers. Previously, BTS had BV Season 1 in North Europe and for this Season, they went to Hawaii. 

Hawaii was the place they wished when they were asked, where they wanted to go, if they had a chance to have a tour. Because most of them answered that they wanted to go Hawaii, the BV S2 granted they wish. 

From episode 1-7 they had so many awesome and fun experiences in Hawaii, such as seeing sharks, seeing volcano from helicopter, go surfing, go to Dinosaurs Museum, etc. The last episode or episode 8 is my favorite. They didn’t go to any tourism places but having their time together in the cruise.

In cruise, they got a video gift from the staff. The video was about the BTS’ journey since their debut until their 4 years. When they got all the 1st time winner, in music show, rookie award, daesang, and BBMA. They felt touch and didn’t believe they could go this far and felt so thankful to their fans. 

After watching the video, they moved to the outside of the cruise to read letters. The letter was made when they were still in the lodge and were asked to write a letter for a member. J-Hope wrote a letter for Suga, Suga for Jin, Jin for Jungkook, Jungkook for Rap Monster, Rap Monster for V, and finally V for Jimin.

They said, they felt cringe to write a letter for a member, since they lived together for more than 4 years including trainee time and it was such a long time ago they wrote to each other. But they still do it. 

By reading all the letters, we could know how BTS’ member love and take care of each other. They said about how they felt about that member, gave compliments and also suggestions. Among the letters of all the members, V’s letter to Jimin was very touching. Even he can’t help but shed a tear.

He said in the letter that he felt grateful for having Jimin always by his side in ups and downs since they were trainee. Jimin’s response to V’s letter was also made you feel the warmth of their friendship.

I really love this episode because I can see how the friendship in BTS not only about a group music who only sing and dance in the stage, but they also take care of each other. Making me envy to have such brothers or sisters like them. 

 If you want to watch BV S2, you need to purchase this on VLive+. They already made a package from episode 1-8 and also the behind came for each episode and also memory film that give you photos of the members during the tour. It’s so worth to buy.

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V.Friends S3: When BTS Play a Skit

This week mission is a free mission. So I won’t post something related to K-Culture. But instead, I will review my favorite episode in VLive that related to KPop. The reason why I download a VApp is actually because of BTS. They are my favorite boy group that was introduced by my bestfriend.

As I mentioned in my previous post, almost all KPop group have a channel in VLive, so does BTS. Every Tuesday  in VLive, BTS has a special program. That is BTS RUN or BTS GAYO. This time I’ll review one of my favorite episodes on BTS RUN.

BTS came back in VLive for new season of BTS RUN after 6 months of last season. The title of this new season is still the continuation of the last episode. That wass BTS RUN Ep 11. BTS RUN is a program, where BTS is given a mission to do something. The mission could be playing role for a skit or playing other games.

In this episode they appeared in a classroom for playing a skit or mini comedy drama as students. The roles for each member were decided by picking up the paper in a glass. It was actually Jongkook, who ended up deliver the paper for each member. Surprisingly, the role for each member was really fit to the personality of the member in real life.

The sexy brain Rap Monster (Rapmon) played a role as a slow-witted student. He explained that his role was really fit to his trainee period. V got a role as the smartest student in the class, while Jimin played as a classroom leader who has an angelic smile. The oldest hyung Jin, played as the most handsome and popular student. Jungkook played as a cold but kind-hearted student and JHope played as a sensitive student was into literature. The last but least, the most anticipated appearance was Suga. He played as a GIRL transfer student. Yup A GIRL!

In this skit, only the roles and main theme were scripted, the dialogs and how they act was developed by BTS itself. So, before started the skit, they discussed about how and the order of the members to seduce Suga, who will play as a hard-to-get girl.

The skit started by the entering of the classroom leader, Jimin introducing the transfer student, Min Yoongi (Suga’s real name). Suga’s appearance as a girl will really shock you. He was truly so beautiful that made you feel failed as a girl. He looked exactly like a girl, if only his man’s gesture wasn’t there. At the end of VLive, Jimin even mentioned that Suga looked beautiful.

In this skit, all members were trying so hard to immerse into their characters that they way they shocked by the Suga’s beauty were so funny. The first member who started to seduce Suga was Rapmon. He tried hard to be like such an “idiot” student. However his act was interrupted by the smartest student, V, because he wanted to teach Suga English. The third one was Jungkook, who acted to become a cool boy by giving Suga his Jacket.

JHope then appeared by reading a poem for Suga. He even made artificial tears to be more emotional. His act became much funnier when he poured a bottle of water for his fake tears and Suga added by splashing him water unexpectedly. In my opinion, JHope’s act was the funniest, even it made other members burst into laugh.

Furthermore, Jimin then tried to seduce Suga, sadly he couldn’t finish his act because Suga refused him to come and he didn’t know what to do. Then Jimin pleased Jin to start his act.

About the Suga’s act in this skit, all his responses to the members’ dialogs were so slay that made the members taken aback. This is what made him funnier with everything he said.

After the skit ended, BTS shared their thoughts on playing the skit. Suga revealed that his appearance as a girl looked like his aunt. They also picked Jin as the MVP (most valuable person) for this skit. Finally, BTS RUN ended by showing us the behind the scene of the skit. Here, we can finally watch Jimin’s interaction with Suga female version that we couldn’t see in the skit.

All I can say that by watching this program, we can see another side of our idol other than in stage, where we can only see them dance and sing. It was also fun to watch them act like an actor and at the same time try to be funny.

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V.Friends S3: Celebrating BTS 4th Anniversary in VLive

2017 is the 4^th year of BTS after their debut on June 13^th, 2013. Every year to celebrate their anniversary, they make an event called BTS Festa that starts from the beginning of June. It ends with the main event on June 13^th by making a party like a mini concert.

Fortunately, for International fans like me who can’t attend their party in Korea, we can still watch it live because it was broadcasted by VLive. It has been already twice since last year that BTS’s anniversary celebration was being broadcasted by VLive.

Unlike the 3^rd anniversary that the broadcasting was only available for VLive+, which you have to pay if you want to watch it, this year, for the 4^th anniversary, BTS and Vlive were very generous to broadcast it on regular VLIve. So, a poor fan like me can happily watch it. lol.

Every anniversary, BTS always gives us many special performances that we’ve never seen before. For example for the opening of this year party, they played a short music video (MV) parody of Blood, Sweat, and Tears. The MV was made in their dorm and the scenes in the MV were made according to the roommates of BTS members in their dorm. This MV parody will lead BTS welcoming us to their party stage by singing Look at Here (여기 봐).

Since the theme for their 4^th anniversary was Home Party, the stage was decorated looked like a home where you can see doors, windows, family photos and a piano. They even dressed with pajamas, so did their fans.

In this party, they will compete against each roommates to decide who the best roommate in BTS was. The competition consisted of quiz, mission, and unit performance. During quiz and mission segment, they sat according to the roommate and they even had the names. They were “R&V” for Rap Monster and V, “3J” (Sam J) for JHope, Jimin and Jungkook, and “SIN” for Suga and JIN.

After having fun watching their funny interactions during that segment, they played the video of their preparation for unit performance competition. How they named their roommate team and what would they perform in the party.

The first performance was Rapmon and V, who sang a song “4 O’clock”. The song itself was made by V and Rapmon and had been released on BTS Festa. Because the song was a mellow song, they sang very emotionally that made you feel blue.

After felt emotional, you’ll be amazed by the second performance of 3J. JHope, Jimin, and Jungkook would give you a heart attack by their powerful dancing. No wonder because they are also in charge of dance in the group.

On the third one, SIN roommate would shock you. Other than show something to look cool, they show us an extraordinary thing. They exchange their role in group. Suga who is in charge of rap, sang Jin’s solo song “Awake”, while Jin who is in charge of vocal, rapped Suga’s rap, “Never Mind”. This was so lit.

At the end of the party, BTS seems like didn’t want to us leaving without being amazed, fun, and became more love. They made special performances of Fire, Boy in Luv and Dope. Dressing in pink mechanic uniforms, they performed a child version of those three songs. The dances and melodies were so cute that you didn’t want the party to end soon.

Finally I can say, it was really such a wonderful party. It was like, in their anniversary, they gave the fans such wonderful gifts of being a group loved by their fans. May BTS keeps growing as the best group who give the best music for everyone. Happy 4^th anniversary BTS and thank you VLive for broadcasting the party!

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