SUGA Live Highlights - 6/13

육일삼 (yook il sam) = six one three

My commentary in green.

• Jimin comes into the room as SUGA starts the live and says "I don't know why I think it's so funny when you do lives like this on your own" heheheh
• SUGA comments on Jimin's cool hair "it's *ssambbong"

*쌈뽕 (ssambbong) = Korean slang meaning something like awesome/badass/cool as hell

*짬뽕 (jjambbong) = most ubiquitously known as the name of a spicy Chinese-Korean brothy seafood noodle dish featuring noodles, seafood, veggies, meat, broth, aromatics - and is kind of this mixture of "hodgepodge/mishmash" of things - and evolved into being used as "hodgepodge" - and this is what the auto-translation picked up and mistranslated and I died laughing because it translated this moment as "I'm going to do jjamppong." HAHAHAHAHAHA

One could use this "짬뽕" to describe a mix in a lot of different contexts - like a strange unplaceable accent could be a 'jjambbong' of dialects, or a very chaotic outfit could be a 'jjambbong' of patterns, etc. - both words sound similar and both could fit so I had to re-listen to this a few times but he says "ssambbong" for sure.

Lemme also just say - I LOVEEEE that SUGA is this badass rapper, insane producer prodigy, a devastating thirst trap whose alter-ego is OFFICIALLY UNOFFICIALLY everyone's bias wrecker with hands that could start or stop wars who regularly receives marriage proposals from fans across the globe from every walk of life, AND ALSO like a tiny 87-year-old grandpa kitten that all his young groupmates adore and cherish like a beloved old turtle hahahaha i LOVE BTS JKDFL:GJDLFGJ

• can't do the live for long cuz I have to get going soon
• BTS is 13 today we're in elemen.. wait no, we've graduated, we're starting middle school as *seventh graders

In Korea, grades are organized like this:

It's BTS's GOLDEN BIRTHDAY THIS YEAR! This is not a concept known or celebrated in any way in Korea but in the U.S. (and Canada?? I don't know if other places really acknowledge this) - your 'golden' birthday is when the age you're turning matches the date!

So in this case - BTS is turning 13 on the 13th! It's not a huge deal - not a special milestone or anything - just a fun theme that you can lean into IF you so desire and obviously no longer possible after turning 31.

💬 you're young
we are we are

💬if we're 13.. we're seventh graders

• He says upon returning to Korea he caught a cold, so he wasn't feeling well for a bit, his cough is still not gone, he kinda mumbles but I think he also got a stye - he says since being back to Korea his condition hasn't been great and it hasn't been easy
• "In Korean age, it'd be sixth grade - right? let's do international age since it's our 13th anniversary, but in Korean age, we'd be 14
• It's Busan Day 2 today
• Korea is very hot and very humid
• V stops by

V reading comments

V: [comment says] 💬have you eaten my baby/child?
SUGA without batting an eye: I ate earlier
V: I also ate before I came

SUGA to V: we're middle school-first graders now (aka 7th graders, see chart above)
V: ..?? middle schoolers-first graders? isn't that 14?
SUGA: no, we gotta do international age - so
V: oh true.. I started playing sax for the first time when I was in middle school-first grade (7th grade)

SUGA: we can't do this for very long cuz we have to go get ready

V: it's our 13th anniversary everyone

SUGA: time flies by

SUGA: I've never eaten the rock honey [j-hope's] - the kids [his members] do but I don't - I just ate the catered food here

he's so cute. he's SO cute. HE'S SO CUTE. he's so cute. he's so cute. HE'S SO CUUUTEJKLJGDFGHJSL:DKJ

V turns on NUEVAYoL by Bad Bunny

Jimin: ...are you doing the live? (cuz SUGA is sitting quietly)
SUGA: yea, I'm reading comments

[others leave]

-Busan's been so nice - I ran from the concert venue to the hotel and it was nice

• I also ran by Haeundae (a beach area in Busan) and it was very nice - I saw the pop up a little bit and saw there were many people in line
• I saw the KEEP SWIMMING made of sand
• I just like running cuz it's exercise you can do anywhere

j-hope: whatcha doing yoongi
SUGA: doing 13th anniversary live
j-hope: nice
SUGA: hobi, jump in
j-hope: ahhhhhh
SUGA: isn't this the newly released, navy "KEEP SWIMMING" windbreaker??

SUGA: now seeing it up close maybe the blue one is more..
j-hope: is it different?? from the other one??
SUGA: the original one is more blue, this is more navy
j-hope::sits back down to check on camera::

j-hope: everyone, cute right?? i'm wearing it cuz the waiting room is so cold -leaves-

• Busan has a lot of hills, it was difficult to run
• Coming here by car versus running didn't make much of a difference in time because the traffic is pretty bad
• The roads were like circle-y/curvy
• k, i have to go get ready for the concert so I can't stay long as I said earlier
• "it's our 13th birthday but it's yours too - so if you think of it that we have the same birthday.." ::never finishes the sentence and just sits in kitty::

• congratulations on the 13th anniversary, congratulations and thank you
• i'm going to get ready and get dressed
• see you at the concert