BTS vocalist V (born Kim Taehyung) left ARMY anxious after he was diagnosed with COVID-19 last week. However, the singer seems to be on the road to recovery, and has been responding to fan’s worried messages and reassuring them. He also revealed in one of his posts that he has been sleeping for fifteen hours straight. V is the fifth member of the band to have been diagnosed with COVID-19.
V advised fans about what one must do in quarantine. One fan asked. ” I’m in quarantine..What should I do in order to spend time?..I have nothing to do at home.” V responded, “For me um..Watching movies, turn on the music, enjoy of thinking, sleeping, play some games and have a nap, like that. And time flies very fast?” Another asked, “Taehyung, are you sleeping well?” He wrote back, “Around 15 hours?” One fan asked, “Are you feeling okay?” V answered, “I am good, thank you for taking care of me!”
A few days ago, Big Hit released a statement on V’s diagnosis. It read, “V visited the hospital Tuesday afternoon on the 15th after experiencing a mild sore throat and took the PCR test. He was diagnosed with COVID-19 tonight.”
The statement continued, “V completed two rounds of COVID-19 vaccinations and is not presenting any extraordinary symptoms other than a mild fever and sore throat. He is currently undergoing treatment at home while waiting for further guidelines from the health care authorities.”
BTS, who has been on an extended break since December, will host their first offline concert in Seoul after two years in March.
The VMin friendship
BTS members and their ARMY have previously expressed their need to protect Kim Taehyung aka V. RM, Jin, Suga, Jimin and Jungkook have often waxed eloquent about his playful innocence and ‘untainted vibe’, as well as his childlike behaviour.
Several of V’s iconic honest moments have been caught on camera—be it shutting down Ellen DeGeneres on her own show when she asked about BTS’ affairs with fans, or declaring that he was too perfect to forget dance steps, or just talking earnestly about his goldfish in serious interviews. It’s no surprise that ARMY as well as other BTS members cherish the Maknae (young brother in Korean), even if they have to reprimand him gently on occasion
While V celebrates a close friendship with all his brothers spawning numerous ships such as Taekook, Taejin or Taejoon, on his birthday, here’s looking at his complex friendship with Jimin, the band member he has known since school days.
‘Happy to debut with you’
Both the band members were close friends before they became bandmates. When Jimin and V joined Big Hit before BTS, they were eventually transferred to new high schools in their second year. Owing to his Busan accent, many of Jimin’s classmates in Seoul mocked him. V supported Jimin throughout this time and they became close friends.
During their show Bon Voyage, V read out a letter to Jimin, which mentioned that he praised Jimin in front of Big Hit executives, who were reluctant to select him for the band. He wrote, “Before our debut, you once got anxious about it. At the time, I had a meeting with the company and they asked me what I thought of you being on the team. I thought it over and said that you were there for me through the ups and downs. You were the one who laughed and cried with me. So I said that it would be good if such a good friend could debut with me. It felt good to say that and I was happy to be able to debut with you.”
He also added in the letter, “When I cry in the bathroom, you’re there to cry with me. You come at dawn to laugh with me. You care about me and have me in your thoughts. I love you buddy.” This letter left Jimin in tears.
Jimin said, “I don’t know what others might think. I actually learn a lot from him. He makes me feel good and touches my heart often. That’s when I’m grateful to have Taehyung as my friend. So I want to say I’m grateful.”
The endless squabbles
During the Carpool Karaoke with James Corden, the other BTS members revealed that V and Jimin are the two members who tend to squabble the most. Their friendship is fraught with many fights, some which the duo has laughed over later. However, things weren’t particularly easy in the early days. In 2019, during Bangtan Attic, V revealed Jimin would be more sensitive as he had anxiety issues since his trainee days and differences would crop up between the two. V revealed that Jimin would argue with him a lot. Jimin justified it by saying that they were two different individuals with a different mindset.
“He was sensitive about the differences we had, so it was hard for me to reach him,” V said. Jimin added to it saying that he would just flare up every time and hence one day, Jungkook and V had to have a conversation with him about controlling his temper
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