In the BTS new album BTS Map of The Soul: 7, there is one particular song about friendship titled “Friends.” This playful song is singing by Jimin and V, who have been friends since high school. The song is telling about their chronicle friendship since high school. A part of this song mentioning about a dumpling incident. Curious about what’s behind the BTS dumpling incident? Let’s find out.
Jimin, V, and Love & Hate Friendship
Seven members of Bangtan Boys have been living and working together for seven years. Making great music and pleasing all K-Pop fans all over the world with their outstanding performance, and going through all thick and thin in their career. At first, for seven beautiful beings with colorful characters who are united in the same boat named BTS might found it hard to adapt to each other. But they must do it anyway to have a solid boyband.
Jimin and V had known each other before they became trainees in Big Hit Entertainment. Jimin moved to Seoul and went to the same school as V. Obviously, they have been through many ups and downs before they have their first debut and up until now. They even call themselves soulmates.
The Dumpling Incident
Jimin, who contributed to this song, wrote about his unique friendship with V. But then, there is a part of the song that tells about the “dumpling accident,” which makes the ARMYs curious about it.
우리 교복 차림이 기억나
I remember ourselves in school uniforms
우리 추억 한 편 한 편 영화
Each episode of our memories would be a movie
만두 사건은 코미디 영화 yeah yeah
The dumpling incident is a comedy movie, yeah yeah
└ BTS Weverse 」
— BTS WEVERSE UPDATE (@btsweverse__up) February 22, 2020
➜ 200222 {07:29KST} | V’s comment on ARMY’s post
📷 taehyung-ssi jimin-ssi
please tell us about the dumpling incident!!
V replied: it was team eat after doing the choreo vs team eating while doing the choreo keke pic.twitter.com/E05W9F33Jt
V explained that he was arguing with Jimin about when to eat the dumplings, “It was Team Eat-After-Dancing vs. Team Eat-While-Dancing,”
Although they often disagree on small things, they always support each other. Like other lines in “Friends” song:
내 방의 드림캐쳐
The dreamcatcher in my room
remember when jimin bought taehyung a dream catcher necklace to say sorry for kicking him out after he had a nightmare the other night im soft 🙁 pic.twitter.com/GXBTVeb1Y9
— NAMJOON!!!!! (@jooniebuns) January 17, 2018
Touchy Poem from BTS V to Jimin
“Jimin, because of a diet and singing out of tune, or making a mistake on stage. Don’t be stressed out. It’s not a big deal. No matter what you do on a stage, it won’t change the fact that you’re the coolest performer I’ve ever seen.”
The “Dumpling Incident” revealed in “Car Pool Karaoke” James Corden
Recently, after singing “ON” in “Carpool Karaoke” James Corden asked the most members who are the most likely to argue. Then Suga answered it calmly “Jimin and V.” Further, when James asked what made them disagree, Jungkook directly spilled the beans by saying, “Mandu, mandu,” with V agreed by saying “Mandu,” which means Dumplings.
this is so precious 🙁 we need more baby and papa mochi interactions in the future pic.twitter.com/oIk7aG0uZ6
— nele⁷ (@gguksbubbletea) February 26, 2020
There are many songs about friendship in BTS’s albums. Such as Good Day, Spring Day, You Never Walk Alone, Moving On, Begin, Mikrokosmos (which is dedicated to ARMY as well), and FRIENDS, are the songs that portray the Bangtan Boys friendship in this seven years.
Quoted from RM about how far they have gone in their music career, “Teamwork makes the dream work.” That’s how BTS has grown and develop to be the most popular K-Pop boyband in the world nowadays.
