Ok-pop idols kind friendships not solely inside their very own teams but additionally throughout totally different teams within the business. They usually come collectively, forming bigger circles of pals. These bonds develop by means of numerous means, equivalent to coaching collectively as trainees, collaborating on joint phases or challenges, or assembly by means of mutual pals. How are these bonds shaped? Let’s take a better take a look at these Ok-pop idol friendships.
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KPOP pal teams united by Age
On the earth of Ok-pop, there are teams of pals who’re the identical age. In Korea, Making pals, even with only a one-year distinction, might be powerful. Though issues are slowly altering, there stays a transparent distinction between older and youthful siblings in Korea. That’s why friendships with friends of the identical age are notably particular. Idols particularly treasure these same-age friendships and infrequently kind teams based mostly on this bond.
97-liners (Boys)
Hottest idol-line within the Ok-pop scene now, the ’97 -liners consists of BTS’s Jungkook, ASTRO’s Cha Eunwoo, NCT’s Jaehyun, GOT7’s Yugyeom and BamBam, Stray Children’s Bang Chan, SEVENTEEN’s Mingyu and DK. These male idols have been all born in 1997.
Their friendship began when:
- Jungkook and Yugyeom bonded throughout a joint stage efficiency between BTS and GOT7 on the 2015 MAMA Awards in Hong Kong.
- Later, in December 2016, Mingyu, BamBam, DK, and The8 grew to become pals by means of a joint stage efficiency on the KBS Gayo Daejun for the ’97-liners.
- Jaehyun joined their ’97-liners group chat in January 2017.
- In June 2018, Mingyu and Eunwoo’s friendship picture was posted, and the picture grew to become well-known.
This timeline exhibits that their friendship has been constructing for a very long time. Though they don’t all the time collect all collectively, they often meet in small teams. They usually go to well-known BBQ eating places in Seoul and depart autographs facet by facet.
Just lately, Yugyeom, Mingyu, Jaehyun, and BamBam met up at Yugyeom’s album listening get together.
With these idol-inspired items you may stylishly meet pals, identical to the ’97-liners:
97-liners(Women)
BLACKPINK’s Lisa, (G)I-DLE’s Minnie, and TWICE’s Jihyo and Mina are additionally pals born in 1997. That is how their friendship began:
- Jihyo and Lisa grew to become pals early of their careers since they have been the identical age.
- Jihyo and Mina are in the identical group.
- Lisa and Minnie, each from Thailand and the identical age, naturally grew to become pals, and so all of them grew to become shut.
They nonetheless keep up a correspondence and meet up after they can.
On June 22, 2022, Minnie uploaded a photograph to her Instagram account of her, Lisa, Jihyo, and Mina collectively in a photograph sales space like regular pals in Korea.
These are methods to costume casually when taking pictures with pals:
98-liners
ASTRO’s Moonbin, SEVENTEEN’s Seungkwan, GFRIEND’s SinB and Umji, UngJae(Hi there Gloom), and a former member of THE ARK, UNI.T’s Suji name themselves “9879”. In 9879, 7 and 9, pronounced as “chil” and “gu” every in Korean, mix to kind “chilgu”. It’s related in pronunciation to “Chingu”, which suggests pals in English. Due to this fact, they’re Chingu born in ’98.
All of them grew to become shut pals throughout their early debut days:
- GFRIEND and The Ark shared the identical choreographer, who inspired them to get alongside. This led to word exchanges and a friendship between Suji, Umji, and SinB.
- Suji grew to become pals with Seungkwan and Moonbin as their schedules for idol music exhibits overlapped.
- SinB and Moonbin had been pals since their childhood appearing days. The members of ASTRO and SEVENTEEN have been additionally shut, which naturally led to the six of them hanging out collectively.
These pals not solely shared non-public gatherings but additionally appeared on broadcasts collectively:
- SinB, Moonbin, Seungkwan, and Umji appeared collectively on the YouTube channel “MMTG” in 2022.
- SinB and Umji additionally appeared as friends on a congratulatory V Dwell broadcast when Suji debuted with UNI.T.
- On January 20, 2021, all of the members of the ’98-liners’ gathered for Umji’s radio present “Aven-girls,” the place she served because the host.
- In October 2023, Suji grew to become the primary among the many ’98-liners’ to get married. 9879 attended her marriage ceremony on October 7.
- On April 27, 2024, SinB, Umji, Ungjae, and Suji attended SEVENTEEN’s encore live performance.
- Sadly, On April 19, 2023, Moonbin tragically handed away on the age of 25.
- Seungkwan, Woongjae, Sinbi, and Umji visited the memorial house arrange by Fantagio and left messages. Every of them expressed deep sorrow for Moonbin in their very own method, uniting with followers in mourning collectively.
99-liners
Stray Children’s Changbin, TXT’s Yeonjun, Ateez’s Wooyoung, Yeosang and San, SEVENTEEN’s Dino, all born in 1999, are shut pals within the 4th technology. They usually take part in SNS challenges collectively. After they meet at music broadcasts or different schedules, they warmly greet one another, celebrating one another’s music present wins.
How did they grow to be shut:
- Yeonjun, Wooyoung, and Yeosang have grown shut throughout their time at Large Hit Leisure. Additionally at the moment, Yeonjun was pals with Ateez’s San, even sharing lunches collectively throughout highschool. Nevertheless, Wooyoung, Yeosang and San weren’t in the identical group at the moment like now, so they didn’t know one another effectively.
- Wooyoung and Changbin grew to become shut by means of mutual pals.
- Dino and Yeonjun, being from the identical firm and sharing a typical curiosity in dance, additionally grew to become shut. Additionally they take a problem video collectively. (Watch Yeonjun and Dino’s problem video)
How about dressing like them after they’re capturing an SNS problem video?
KPOP Overseas line
Ok-pop teams have many non-korean members. These overseas members share their struggles and depend on one another whereas coaching in another country. Even after their debut, they proceed to help and depend on one another. They usually collect throughout holidays and cheer every different on. Listed below are some famous overseas KPOP idol pals.
Thai-liners
The Ok-pop Thai-liners encompass Blackpink’s Lisa, GOT7’s BamBam, (G)-I-DLE’s Minnie, NCT’s Ten, and SORN, a former member of CLC. They’re often called all-rounders of their teams. Furthermore, all of them have the widespread expertise of coming to Korea from Thailand at a younger age to pursue their idol goals.
So, they depend on one another and luxury one another by means of the loneliness of residing in another country. They mentioned they’ve a group chat the place they replace one another on their information.
They’re additionally concerned in enterprise collectively.
- They take part in challenges collectively or share the identical stage.
- Lisa and BamBam, who get pleasure from nationwide recognition in Thailand, have additionally filmed commercials collectively.
- BamBam and Minnie received to know one another by means of Lisa’s introduction, as revealed on BamBam’s YouTube content material, “Bam’s Diary.“
- At Lisa’s twenty seventh celebration, Minnie, and SORN gathered to have a good time her birthday.
Right here’s how one can costume as flashy as their stage costumes:
China-Taiwan liners
In lots of Ok-pop teams, there are members from China and Taiwan. IDLE Yuqi and Shuhua (from Taiwan), TWICE Tzuyu (from Taiwan), Elkie a former member of ClC, Dreamcatcher Handong, Kep1er Xiaoting, and Everglow Yiren are identified to share a bond:
- On December 10, 2022, Xiaoting shared footage of her assembly with Tzuyu, Shuhua, and Handong on social media.
- Shuhua posted pictures on Instagram displaying her with Tzuyu, Xiaoting, and Handong on April 2, 2023.
- Shuhua, Tzuyu, and Elkie spent Chuseok (Korean Thanksgiving) collectively in 2019.
- Yuqi, Shuhua, Tzuyu, Handong, Yiren, and Xiaoting met up and left their signatures collectively on April 3, 2023.
- They’re additionally identified to research Korean collectively.
- Xiaoting and Handong filmed the problem for Kepler’s tune ‘Up!’ collectively. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tHWcB_czWDc
These are skirt style which you can put on like them:
Different kpop pal teams
Friendship Paddings
Jimin, Taemin, Kai, Ha Sungwoon, Timoteo and their non-idol pal Kwon Ho shaped a pal group referred to as “Friendship Paddings.” They loved doing issues collectively like a crew. They determined to connect a emblem they designed collectively, resembling a hand, onto their paddings, therefore the title “Friendship Paddings” was created.
As for the way they grew to become shut, initially:
- Timoteo and Sungwoon are within the identical group “Hotshot,” and they’re shut pals.
- Timoteo, being an SM trainee, was pleasant with Kai and Taemin.
- Furthermore, when Sungwoon launched his pal Jimin from BTS, all of them grew to become shut.
That is how one can costume just like the Friendship Paddings, as if it’s a journal photoshoot.
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In the long run, the sturdy bonds and friendships amongst Ok-pop idols give us heartwarming tales and present unity past group boundaries. By way of shared trainee experiences, joint performances, or mutual friendships, these idols show the facility of camaraderie. As followers, we will draw inspiration from their relationships and convey the identical spirit of help into our personal lives. Let these tales remind us that, like these idols, we can also discover energy and pleasure in our connections. Might you additionally discover such heat and supportive pals, identical to those in these tales.