{"id":168217,"date":"2026-06-02T19:32:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T02:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=168217"},"modified":"2026-06-02T19:32:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T02:32:38","slug":"a-former-military-colleague-of-bts-v-speaks-about-the-idols-true-personality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/a-former-military-colleague-of-bts-v-speaks-about-the-idols-true-personality\/","title":{"rendered":"A former military colleague of BTS&#8217; V speaks about the idol&#8217;s true personality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">Through recent media <a href=\"https:\/\/www.starnewskorea.com\/star\/2026\/05\/29\/2026052906483799630\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports<\/a>, a former military colleague of <strong>BTS<\/strong>&#8216; <strong>V<\/strong> spoke about the idol&#8217;s true personality and shared anecdotes with the singer during their military service.<\/p>\n<p>After the K-Pop idol shared a fun story about going to church during his military service, on May 29th, one of his former military colleagues, the bodybuilder <strong>Kim Gi-tae<\/strong>, shared through his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/k_kitae_01\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a> account how he met the idol and some of their stories.<\/p>\n<p>The soldier revealed that he was assigned to the <strong>same first platoon<\/strong> as V and also said that the idol gave Korean beef to the trainees, telling them they had worked hard. He recounted how they sat down together to eat and talk.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">V MILITARY <br \/>(Episode 1)  \u2013 The story of living in the training center with <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/BTSV?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BTSV<\/a> hyung <\/p>\n<p>\u2014 KIM KITAE, a bodybuilder who served in the S.KOREAN military alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/V?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#V<\/a>, shares popular stories about their time as fellow trainees in the platoon.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude4d\u200d\u2642\ufe0f: There r even stories about\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EX4NJVlqQM\">pic.twitter.com\/EX4NJVlqQM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; KTH HYPE (@kthhype_ttg8) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/kthhype_ttg8\/status\/2060374389930197400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 29, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>He also shared how they watched a <strong>Christmas musical<\/strong> together at church and how the BTS member received cheers after the performance. He also described how the idol applied for and obtained the position of <strong>platoon leader<\/strong>, demonstrating his dedication.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p><em>&#8220;He was a really kind and positive person who always led things in a good direction, and he was a magnanimous individual with a lot of playfulness and affection,&#8221;<\/em> he finally said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p>All these words demonstrate the idol&#8217;s effort to enjoy his time in the army, working hard, creating bonds and sharing love by showing his true personality, leaving a mark on all those colleagues who fulfilled their duty by his side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through recent media reports, a former military colleague of BTS&#8216; V spoke about the idol&#8217;s true personality and shared anecdotes with the singer during their military service. After the K-Pop idol shared a fun story about going to church during his military service, on May 29th, one of his former military colleagues, the bodybuilder Kim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2817,"featured_media":168233,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[49,1712],"class_list":["post-168217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kpop","category-news","tag-bts","tag-v-taehyung"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168217"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168232,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168217\/revisions\/168232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}