Their twenty fifth week in the military is now complete and time to celebrate this milestone with a look back at this week in 2017.
BTS had just made a landmark win at the BMA's winning Top Social Artist (22/05) and were receiving lots of attention in the press.
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There first appearance after getting back from the US was a KBS news conference on 29/05. They posted on TwiX beforehand.
Watching the news conference I realized that the SK press has never made it easy on BTS. There was only cursory mention of their win and a huge emphasis on their responsibility as role models for youth and ambassadors for South Korea.
It's just all a bit too much and I don't remember anyone talking to One Direction or Take That in quite the same way. The only other similar example is possibly the Beatles who did get quite a bit of the establishment press looking down the nose at them in interviews. No wonder Joonie got so fed up after dealing with it for so many years and we are blessed with Groin (I'm using any excuse to post about RPWP at the moment) as a result.
After the press conference they headed to the airport. Jimin is so striking in this outfit. Shame JK's good looks were hidden behind that mask. They were off to play three nights at the Osaka Jo-Hall, Japan (30/05, 31/05 & 01/06) as part of the Wings Tour.
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The Osaka concerts come at the beginning of this Memories of 2017 video between 0.00 & 10:35 mins. What comes over is how cohesive they are as a team and how much affection there is between them all. Look at jinhopekook all glued together after the show. Whose hands are resting on JK's shoulders? I think you know.
Finally it was FESTA 2017. There was a gift for ARMY every day from 01/06 to the 14/06.
One of those gifts was JK & Jimin's version of We don't talk anymore which was released on 03/06. I love this version of the song.
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There was also this rather chaotic exclusive fan cam on the 04/06.
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Oh to have been around when all this stuff was dropping. I have festa envy. I'm looking forward to some new music on the 07/06.