{"id":873109,"date":"2026-10-06T19:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T19:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/873109\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T19:30:11","slug":"bts-picnic-in-the-park-play-drop-the-handkerchief-on-run-bts-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/873109\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS Picnic in the Park, Play Drop the Handkerchief on ‘Run BTS!’: Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThere might not be a better way to release the pressure valve of fame and the grind of a world tour than a good old-fashioned game of Drop the Handkerchief. At least that\u2019s what BTS<\/a> are up to in the new episode of their long-running Run BTS! variety web series. <\/p>\n

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\n\tThe 26-minute ep that dropped on Tuesday morning (Oct. 6) finds Jung Kook, V, Jimin, RM, SUGA, Jin and j-hope setting up a picnic in a Toronto park for some relax time and leaning into their sillier side as they prepare to have an al fresco meal and play a few games. After reminiscing about a 2019 Toronto episode of the show during which they lined up and had fans quiz them on their songs, the septet tried to remember their first picnic as children.<\/p>\n

\n\tThey recalled meals featured eggs and soda, as well as their desire for the store-bought version of the traditional Korean sushi-like dish Gimbap, rather than homemade. With that out of the way, the men got down to serious gameplay, with the first suggestion being a round of the Ring Around the Rosey-esque game Drop the Handkerchief.<\/p>\n

\n\tOne of them then busted out a hacky sack (aka a Jegichagi) before an explanation of the rules of the Handkerchief game and a group sing-along to the theme song: \u201cRound and round\/ Round and round\/ Let\u2019s go round and round\/ And dance.\u201d j-hope was first up to walk around, ending his practice ring with a bit of \u201cunauthorized twerking\u201d on one of his bandmates\u2019 heads.<\/p>\n

\n\tClearly enjoying their day off with some goofy chants and playful run-walking, they busted into an impromptu a cappella bit of the ARIRANG song \u201cHooligan,\u201d chanting, \u201cWatch this, watch this beat goin\u2019 Hooligan\/ We pop out, we actin\u2019 a fool again,\u201d with V noticing that the kerchief had been dropped behind him. He jumped up to try and give chase, but wiped out and crashed to the ground in a heap.<\/p>\n

\n\tThey then moved on to a hardcore game of Red Light, Green Light, with V busting his bandmates for improper dance form as they giggled and tried to slip forward before Jimin even got his round started. After working up a serious appetite, the men tucked into a local delicacy, poutine, as well as the main dish, something called sushi pizza.<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter a deep discussion about the semiotics of the saying \u201clet\u2019s grab a meal together,\u201d and the nuance of telling someone, \u201cI\u2019ll think about it,\u201d they moved into a lightning round of even deeper topics such as the worst place to get a mosquito bite and a fierce discussion about whether they would agree to wash a bandmate if they broke their arms and legs.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe episode dropped a month after BTS wrapped the North American leg of the ARIRANG world tour, with their next scheduled South American date coming on Wednesday (Oct. 7) at Estadio San Marcos in Lima, Peru. The next episode of Run BTS! will drop at 8 p.m. KST on Sunday (Oct. 11).<\/p>\n

\n\tWatch the latest episode of Run BTS! below.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There might not be a better way to release the pressure valve of fame and the grind of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":873110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,27340,216,498],"class_list":["post-873109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-genre-kpop","tag-music","tag-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/873110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}