Discover the third meaning that the name ARMY gained by BTS

Before BTS made their official debut, on June 13, 2013, with the release of the mini-album “2 Cool 4 Skool”, and the title song “No More Dream”, the group released the name of those who would become responsible for supporting them with messages of affection on social media, purchasing tickets for shows and events and promoting their releases, whether by collecting albums and photocards, giving countless plays to albums and tracks or choosing them in votes for awards: the ARMY.

Calling the fan community that has been with them for more than a decade ARMY was a decision that took some time, as the members of the formation, RM, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, V It is Jungkookrevealed that there were other name suggestions for the fandom, one of them being Bell, an English word that means bell, as the pronunciation of the word in Korean is similar to that of the group’s name, Bangtan Sonyeondan (BTS).

When you say BTS in Korean, you say ‘Bangtan’. And when you say ‘bell’, it sounds like ‘bang wool’. It starts with the same syllable, ‘bang’, so when we thought of the fandom name, someone brought up this idea, like, ‘What about the bell thing?’ Everybody rings their bells and [nós] we were like, ‘Make some noise!’ and the bells are like ‘ring-a-ling-a-ling’. But ARMY is much better,” said RM in an interview with ‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon’.

Therefore, when choosing ARMY, on June 9, 2013, it was also necessary to reveal the meaning of this word, which, in fact, emerged as an acronym for “Adorable Representative MC for Youth” [“Adoráveis Representantes M.C (mestre de cerimônias) para a Juventude”]a phrase that connects fans with the central idea of ​​the group’s tracks, which is to represent youth.

More than that, ARMY also carries a second meaning, since, in English, the word means army. In this way, the group’s fans can be defined as the army of “Bulletproof Scouts”, a phrase that gives the literal meaning of BTS’ Korean name, Bangtan Sonyeondan.

Still, what some may not know is that in recent years, ARMY has gained a third meaning, and it was granted by the group’s leader, RMafter an emotional moment experienced by the group.

The third meaning that the name ARMY gained by BTS

This happened after the 2020 ‘Map Of The Soul’ tour was interrupted due to COVID-19, a disease that spread across the globe and was characterized as a pandemic by the WHO on March 11 of that year, placing the entire world in several restrictions, including the postponement or closure of planned events that were taking place at that time.

As a result, BTS only returned to the stage when restrictions imposed by the pandemic began to be relaxed, in 2022, with the ‘Permission to Dance on Stage’ shows. The return was marked by three shows at the Olympic Stadium in Seoul, South Korea, held on March 9, 10 and 11, but at the time, the audience that managed to get tickets, which were limited, were prohibited from shouting during the show, as shared by the Koreaboo portal.

In this way, the presentations were carried out and the only interaction that the septet had with the fans was done through clappers (also known as clappers), which led the group to reveal several times how much they missed hearing the fans’ cheers. and being able to sing the songs with ARMY.

With that, on the third day of the show, RM gave a speech, and while explaining that he couldn’t wait to hear the voices of his fans again, he said that the name of the fandom gained a new meaning: ARMY became an abbreviation for “areumdaun miseong”, a phrase that can be translated into “beautiful voices.”