{"id":169295,"date":"2025-12-05T10:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T10:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/169295\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T10:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T10:13:07","slug":"btss-jungkook-and-aespas-winter-rumored-to-be-dating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/169295\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS&#8217;s Jungkook and aespa&#8217;s Winter rumored to be dating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                Published: 05 Dec. 2025, 15:18\n                            <\/p>\n<p>                                                                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"BTS's Jungkook, left, and aespa' Winter [NEWS1]\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/97f8b181-5373-45f3-bb2b-a9feec9c0192.jpg\"\/>                                              <\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">BTS&#8217;s Jungkook, left, and aespa&#8217; Winter [NEWS1]<\/p>\n<p>                      \u00a0  <br \/>   BTS\u2019s Jungkook and aespa\u2019s Winter have sparked dating rumors, but both their respective agencies have remained quiet on the issue.  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>   Over 15,000 posts related to the rumors have been posted on X as of 2 p.m. Friday.  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>   One piece of evidence fueling the dating rumors is the matching tattoos of three dog heads inked just above the elbow on the back of their left arms.  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>   Online users also pointed out their Instagram handles. Jungkook\u2019s used to be @imjungkook but was recently changed to @mnijungkook. Fans highlighted the relation to Winter\u2019s real name, Kim Min-jung, but the BTS member previously explained that the new handle stood for \u201cmy name is Jungkook.\u201d  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>   Winter\u2019s current handle is @imwinter.  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>   Fans also brought attention to multiple matching items, including in-ear monitors and shirts, that the pair have worn in public on separate occasions.  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>   Jungkook was spotted visiting aespa\u2019s concert earlier this year, during his break while he was enlisting in the Army.  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>   BigHit Music and SM Entertainment have not issued statements on the matter.  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>   BTS is set to release its first music as a whole in March next year, while aespa is in the middle of its \u201cSYNK: aeXIS Line\u201d world tour.  <\/p>\n<p>BY SHIN MIN-HEE [<a href=\"https:\/\/koreajoongangdaily.joins.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection\" class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"6a1902030444070304020f0f2a000505040d0b040d440905440118\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published: 05 Dec. 2025, 15:18 BTS&#8217;s Jungkook, left, and aespa&#8217; Winter [NEWS1] \u00a0 BTS\u2019s Jungkook and aespa\u2019s Winter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-169295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}