“For audiences, I need to display myself at top form. So I’ve got to work harder.
Jin from BTS admits he doesn’t “move quite as well” as his bandmates and works harder to keep up. Photo / Getty Images
“To be honest, I’m aware that I don’t move quite as well as the other members. So I’ve always come early to practice, or stayed late to catch up. I still do that.”
Jin said he isn’t “treated” as an elder by his bandmates.
“I am the eldest, but within the team, the members don’t really … treat me like the eldest? Is that weird to say? I guess they don’t think of me as the eldest. Nor do I act like it.
“But when they act all friendly, calling me brother, and they treat me comfortably, that’s what I like the most. I guess the inverse of that is that I don’t like when they get overly casual? Like when they slap my butt, for example. I’d say that’s my least favourite part.”
The Butter hitmaker has seen a “difference” in how he feels now to how he did a decade ago and said the other members of BTS hadn’t truly understood the challenges that come with getting older until they started to experience them themselves.
“Let me tell you what a fellow member told me once. He said, ‘Jin, if you’re having trouble, you can try harder and overcome it!’ and he’s about two, three years younger than me, right? He came back to me after two, three years and said, ‘Wow, this is how bad you felt at this age? I had no idea’.”