In the music industry, the youngest BTS member’s family name, Jeon Jung-kookis often not mentioned, as it is better known simply as Jungkook.
Still, these are just two of the ways that the South Korean singer, songwriter, dancer and music producer can be identified, since the ARMYs (as the group’s fans are called) have given some good nicknames to the voice of the hits “Seven”. and “3D”, as Kookiefor example, a loving way to abbreviate the artist’s name.
But, in addition to the nicknames given by the fandom, Jungkook also gained a cute way of being called by a more than special person: your groupmate’s father, Suga. According to the Koreaboo portal, the name reveal came about at a special BTS event organized during the COVID-19 pandemic, where 200 fans were randomly selected to participate in an online sleepover with the group’s members.
Soondoongie?
In the Zoom meeting with ARMY, the group members answered some questions from fans, as well as told some interesting facts about the members. Among these moments, it was revealed that the father of Suga flame Jungkook from “Soondoongie”, a Korean word used to describe a pure and kind person — cute, right?
Other nicknames
Soondoongie It is Kookie are just some of the nicknames Jungkook. The idol is also called J.K.which represent the singles of the singer’s name, and Golden Maknae, which, in free translation, means something like golden young man, since golden is “gold” in English and maknae is a term in Korean used to indicate the youngest member of a group.
In this way, Golden Maknae represents very well Jungkooksince in addition to being the youngest member of BTS, the idol stands out in everything he sets out to do, as, whether singing, dancing, drawing, or interacting with fans, he is extremely talented.
Another way used by fans to refer to the singer is rabbit. That’s right, the carrot eaters were chosen to represent the idol, since just like this cute little animal, Jungkook has longer front teeth.
It is worth mentioning that relating human features to those of a pet is a very common South Korean custom among young people, and there is even a name for this tradition: 동물상 (read “dongmulsang”, a word that in Korean slang means “face of animal”.
With this in mind, to be considered similar to a rabbit, in addition to larger teeth, people must also have large foreheads and cheeks, characteristics that can also be found in Jungkook.
Finally, among the list of nicknames, there is also Justin Seagull and Jeon Seagull, variations that some fans also use to refer to J.K.. The names are related to the singer’s pre-debut era, a time when his stage name Jungkook it would be Seagull or Justin Seagull, if I needed to westernize it. The choice was made because Justin bieber is one of your favorite idol singers.
Already Jeon Seagull mixes the family name and the name he could have used to debut with BTS.
Source: Recreio
