{"id":164626,"date":"2026-04-19T06:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T13:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=164626"},"modified":"2026-04-19T06:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T13:58:10","slug":"bts-v-shares-the-books-he-read-during-his-military-service-and-his-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/bts-v-shares-the-books-he-read-during-his-military-service-and-his-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS&#8217; V shares the books he read during his military service and his experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During <strong>BTS<\/strong>&#8216; <strong>V<\/strong>&#8216;s recent solo interview, he shares how his time in military service was for personal growth, revealing the books he read and his experience with them.<\/p>\n<p>On April 19th, the K-Pop idol individual interview for <strong>Rolling Stone<\/strong> was released, where he talked about his solo career, military life, his experience working on the boys&#8217; new album &#8216;<strong>ARIRANG<\/strong>,&#8217; and much more.<\/p>\n<p>Amid this talk, V was asked about his intention of resetting his mind and body, to which he answered, revealing that he works out and reads a lot, and when he was asked about what was <strong>the most important thing he read<\/strong>, he shared his first options and his experience with them.<\/p>\n<p>He started saying, <em><strong>&#8220;I read a lot of novels of Keigo Higashino. There was also a book, &#8216;Eleven Steps&#8217;; it was kind of a philosophy book,&#8221;<\/strong><\/em> and continue sharing his experience reading that time, <em><strong>&#8220;I found myself putting myself into the text. Like imagining myself as a character in the novel, for example. I was so deep in my imagination at the time.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"BTS\u2019 V Talks About the Future of His Solo Career, Acting, and Making \u2018Arirang\u2019 | Cover Story\" width=\"1240\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K0iPxlaSB54?start=131&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The BTS member continued sharing that he received these recommendations from a friend, like <strong>Han Kang<\/strong> and <strong>Keigo Higashino<\/strong> books, and that was what he was really into.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>&#8220;I asked my friend, &#8216;Hey, I want to read! Do you have any books to recommend?&#8217; And they got so excited and recommended Han Kang&#8217;s and Keigo Higashino&#8217;s books. So that&#8217;s literally all I read&#8230; Was it helpful? I&#8217;m not sure.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During BTS&#8216; V&#8216;s recent solo interview, he shares how his time in military service was for personal growth, revealing the books he read and his experience with them. 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