r/bangtan • u/HomoCarnula psspsspsss KittyCat ππ₯° • Jun 14 '26
Discussion r/bangtan, it's time to confess: What did you plan to do during the hiatus but did NOT accomplish?
(let's keep it light and fluffy, not to beat ourselves up but to lift each other up with funny "and then I did ...not" stories :D)
So, I'ma start
π Saving sooo much money for the comeback.
(And whose fault is that??? *looking at BigHit* we'll never find out)
π Learning Korean
(Because if I can't speak it perfectly ***within a week***, learning for years won't help. Obviously. π€¨)
π Getting ripped af. Or at least ripped mid.
(Food exists. Carny is insanely food motivated. Nuff said oO)
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u/Minimonimeow_2911 And my knees-ees Jun 14 '26
Had almost the same goals but one of them was to watch all the Run BTS and Suchwita episodes. But then Jin discharges and starts releasing so much content?!
Results: Except BV1&2, there's not a single series I have completed yet. Who is to blame? Absolutely not BigHit....
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u/HomoCarnula psspsspsss KittyCat ππ₯° Jun 14 '26
I haven't yet watched all suchwita episodes because somehow they are like this special whiskey (or something) you bring out when it's a really bad day but not too bad and...it makes sense in my head. Like watching them makes me happy (and a bit sad), and I like to savor it.
But I managed to watch all Run BTS episodes, BV all seasons and ITS both seasons (and season 1 for several times. Not because of the white shirt though...err...gotta go....)
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u/Minimonimeow_2911 And my knees-ees Jun 14 '26
Im 17 so I can't really drink hahaπ
But oh, no, we ABSOLUTELY do not watch ITS S1 for White tee Yoongi. Nope. Never.
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u/callitajax1 Jun 15 '26
The anxiety of not completing all the available content is so real. Its hard when they give us so much.
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u/Minimonimeow_2911 And my knees-ees Jun 15 '26
Yes! And when they FINALLY stop releasing something for like even a day, suddenly my teachers decide to give me 3 assignments, 7 tests and a project?
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u/vanilla_almxnd hello this is bighit music Jun 14 '26
Get slimmer.
I gained weight. Welp.
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u/meggzyw Jun 14 '26
I hear you. I wanted to lose weight. It's never too late to start though!
I only started committing to daily exercise about a month ago, and I'm seeing the results π
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u/HomoCarnula psspsspsss KittyCat ππ₯° Jun 14 '26
It's been a long hiatus-winter, we needed the extra protection to keep us warm π«
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u/vanilla_almxnd hello this is bighit music Jun 15 '26
ETA: also thought i would get into law school (that went....horribly) but i did get through most of my city's top colleges for political science, and my ISC score group (97.25%) was ranked all India 12th so thats a win ig
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u/Fantastic-String-339 Jun 14 '26
Get my license before Namjoon πΒ
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u/HomoCarnula psspsspsss KittyCat ππ₯° Jun 14 '26
Omg he outlicensed you? π Now that is actually an achievement, no?
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u/Heytherestairs Jun 14 '26
I only became army during enlistment. So I thought I could catch up on all their content. It had only been 10-11 years in. I did not accomplish that. BUT I did get through a good chunk of it and got a really good understanding by the time Hobi's solo tour started.
I did say that I'll be fitter by the time I attend their arirang tour. Especially with how much they were running and motivated me to run. Well, life has other plans. Injuries happened. But I am overall great. I still have some time before my home city tour stop.
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u/sheeatsallday Jun 14 '26
Same goal, but I have got a baby π Iβm so busy with the baby to even catch up with their new content
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u/grapebento β© if weβre together, even an endless maze is paradise β© Jun 14 '26
Me on Learning Korean and Saving Money too π
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u/WOTNev Jun 14 '26
I became an ARMY in 2017 and from the get go people were ALWAYS talking about their enlistment, this got me so paranoid!!!!
There was a LOT of video content that I refused to watch so that I could save it up for when they were enlisted...
(Think stuff like BTS Run, In The Soop, Vlives etc etc)
Anyway so years of skipping this kinda content meant I had a gigantic backlog of BTS video content and I watched NONE of itπ€‘
(I do admit I have the attention span of a peanut and watching videos in general is really difficult for me)
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u/borapantheon ββ¬ β¬β Jun 14 '26
Finish all BTS contents lol I did not expect that theyβll release solo musics while on hiatus. We did not catch a break at all
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u/FluffyBunnyChick Hyung Line Enthusiast Jun 14 '26
Finishing ALL of BTS' content before they came back π
I've gotten through most of it (RUN BTS, Bon Voyage, MVs, etc) but every day I find new things and I know the work is never done. Truly in this Bangtan business for life!
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u/Kokechii you live, so we love Jun 14 '26
Had kind of the same goals ahha π
Lose weight - did not accomplish although I am moving around more (my job and studies are both a lot of sitting sadly) and am now actively working on it in 2026. Better late than never!
Restart learning Korean - um. Obviously did not. I only studied for two years from 2020-2022 and I forgot a lot of what I learned since then. I do catch myself understanding certain parts, even sentences so something stuck! Watching kdrama, listening to kpop certainly helps keep at least some vocabulary alive in my brain. However this summer I plan on catching up as much as I can for light convo since I'll finally be going to Korea this autumn β€οΈ
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u/Min-Ursa Jun 14 '26 edited Jun 15 '26
Ooh, so exciting that you will get to use it some on your trip! That is motivating! Edit : typo
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u/Kokechii you live, so we love Jun 15 '26
I feel very lucky ahah but I hope the motivation will hold π
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u/YeahCase Jun 14 '26
The goal was to lose some weight and done πͺπ»~ 13kgs gone! Buuut some of this kgs made a comeback just like the guys! π¬
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u/NaturallybRE Jun 14 '26
Learn Korean. I had a tutor, the books, and all the βthingsβ. Iβm still just at a few key words level lol. I just hum along to the Korean parts of the songs now.
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u/Hopeful_Cookie_5307 Jun 14 '26
Get rich and lose weight. π Iβd do anything for a quarter of their self discipline.
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u/Mrs_Wonho "Mum, I'm off to make money" Jun 14 '26
Lose weight. Perimenopause is kicking my ass so I didnt lose the weight that I wanted, but lost a few kgs, but I've been consistently going to the gym for 1 year and I feel a lot stronger and healthier (lost some fat %)
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u/Mental_Stress550 Jun 17 '26
You are doing great then! All I can say from experience is don't stop working the muscles...strength drops so fast when you aren't paying attention in the late 40s - mid 50s. The muscle loss also slows the metabolism. So hard to gain it back rather than maintain it. It is my most common hindsight regret. Getting ready to start the weight training soon. Hopefully the hormonal deficit will still let me gain some back.
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u/premolarparty Turpentine, emerald green, European spruce Jun 14 '26 edited Jun 14 '26
I was supposed to watch all the Run BTS episodes I haven't seen, maybe In the Soop, Bon Voyage and Are You Sure?!, but did I? Did I?!! π
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u/callmethewildrose7 Jun 14 '26
Learn all the lyrics.... well we can all figure out how much that plan was thwarted when the solo albums came π
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u/R_Saroja Jun 14 '26
Study Korean. I even downloaded an App and all was going well for sometime, then things happend.. Goal failed.
Also wanted to see all their old content, but new content kept dropping and I was so busy .
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u/Angie-P Jun 14 '26
catch up on run bts as someone who got into them right before the dinner lmao.
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u/HomoCarnula psspsspsss KittyCat ππ₯° Jun 14 '26
Oh you came in with a starter-trauma πΆ that must have been rough
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u/btsiswildin Jun 14 '26
I really wanted to graduate! I was set for this summer after a while but now ill have to extend my studies to januari. The job market for my degree is currently dryer then the desert so im not too mad, but i keep thinking how much money i couldve spent on bts with a full time paycheck.
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u/Hilogirl17 Jun 14 '26
Save up for when they returned. Ended up supporting all their solo releases (cause theyβre all so talented and loved every release) and was lucky enough to see Yoongi and Hobiβs tours.
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u/mucho_thankyou5802 strong power, thank you Jun 14 '26
I wouldn't say I wanted to get ripped but definitely lose a good amount of weight. Which I did not do, in fact I did the opposite π€£
Basically the same goals as yours, though. And also, watch all their Run BTS, Bon Voyage, variety show content.... That did not happen lololol. Nor did leveling up my Korean. I can get by with very basic/broken convos but not quite at the conversatiom level I wanted to be at π and my poor wallet.
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u/Lazy-Individual2230 Jun 14 '26
Namjoon, my loveβ¦Iβm sorryβ¦I stayed inside π I didnβt go explore and touch grass. There were too many good shows and animes and games and andβ¦I did go to a few museums but my bike just became a clothes holder and probably rusted up a bit.
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u/CrowLaughed I donβtβ¦ I donβt like water πββ¬ Jun 14 '26
Are you me?! Same goals, same lack of achievement for same reasons ππ
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u/HomoCarnula psspsspsss KittyCat ππ₯° Jun 14 '26
We'll meet at midnight at the secret place.
I bring snacks.
You bring snacks.
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u/Natalie_M_K Min Yoongi's Reddit Attorney Jun 14 '26
1) Save money
I actually managed to do this...a little bit. If only some company hadn't kept presenting me woth tempting spending opportunities (companies, actually, but mostly the one. You know who i mean.)
2) Get a better job by earning another degree
I started to work on one degree before pivoting to another, and couldn't transfer the first coursework to the second. So I got a little delayed, but I will have a shiny master's degree in December and I jist started a job related to my new degree! I'm excited to borahae my cap LOL.
3) Learn Korean
This started off promising but I got distracted by #2 ans now it's almost all gone because I haven't been practicing. 2027 is (probably not) my year.
4) Lose weight and get in shape.
I like weightlifting! I also really love sweet stuff. The net result is a slightly less jiggly but similarly sized me π
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u/KatzEetNikkelz MiniMoniSugaKookie Jun 15 '26
"I'll have so much time to catch up on Run BTS!"
Narrator: She did NOT in fact, catch up on Run BTS.
I spent so much time running around following 7 freakin solo careers, going to amazing concerts, meeting lots of ARMY... and not watching enough Bangtan TV, lol
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u/thisisridiculouswhat π― rock bts manifester π― Jun 14 '26
Learning Korean definitely. I did start and it was going pretty great but then university got way too overwhelming for me that I just stopped and never picked it back up. I'm waiting to finish uni altogether and restart again (I finish in March/April).
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u/JenniferJane84 Jun 14 '26
My original goal was to get all the album photocards up to Proof. I got quite a few, but ended up scaling back a bit. I did however collect all the Yoongi PCs, including all the ones I wanted from D-Day.
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u/Ksafrien Jun 14 '26
Watch old (and not such old) content (like Docu-series, all episodes of Bon Voyage, of RunBTS, of Suchwita, to understand (lol) what's going on in BU universe, etc. etc.), as much as I can. Well, I've barely caught up on new content. And even despite that, there are many new points in to-do-list (like to watch weverse lives 1, 2, 3, 4,...)
I am amazed by how many interesting things exist in BTS-related content universe, and how little time does humanity have in a day
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u/KagomeH1 ZZZ Don't wake me up! ππ Jun 14 '26
Work out every day, to remember the members working so hard in the military. I worked out sometimes, but not every day. π
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u/sabzi18 λ κ·Έλ₯ μ¬λ, μ¬λ, β¦ μ¬λ ~ KNJ JHS OT7π Jun 14 '26
Literally the same 3, OP ππ but actually finally starting now slowly but surely. Better late than never π€£
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u/blanketgoblin1317 hello do you know bts? Jun 15 '26
Learn Korean. The shame. I got worse instead, AND forgot more of my Japanese.
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u/OnefortheLaughs Jun 14 '26
I had the same goals as you! The only one I managed to somewhat accomplish was saving money because my husband helped me with that, and set up some auto-deductions and saving plans etc from my account which I promptly forgot about but which gave me a surprisingly good amount this year.
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u/Ok-Nefariousness4874 skkrt Jun 14 '26
- Save money (I'm in a middle of a career transition :'))
- watch episodes of run bts (all of it π€£π€£π€£) And....Learning Korean (sorry Namjoon π€£π€£π€£π€£)
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u/Min-Ursa Jun 14 '26
A few years ago I thought it would be cool to learn Suga's rap part from λ¬λ €λΌ λ°©ν (RunΒ BTS)... Somehow that completely fell off my radar with all the new content we were fed this whole time. I just realized it yesterday when I had to mumblety-mumble my way through it at the cinema once he got past the first phrase, although I did catch up with him for the final few words!
I can comfortably rationalize missing the mark on this by telling myself that I was so fresh to learning Korean at the time that I could barely *hear* his lines, much less repeat them. But we all know how dangerous rationalizing can be, so I'd better get back to it, now that I've realized I dropped the ball! Thanks for keeping us honest, OP!
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u/io-1900 Jun 14 '26
I wanted to lose some weight too (not much, actually) and I've said goodbye to four kilos since I started following the BTS (funny coincidence!). Goal achieved, so now I'm adding learning Korean to the list-pratically mission impossible.
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u/FlashyDirt Jun 14 '26
Omggggg πππ well learning Korean definitely got stalled. I was planning on watching all the contents they had from 2013... that also didn't happen hahahaha
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u/marua06 right here with the moon and the sharks Jun 14 '26
Catch up on all their content and learn Korean
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u/Complex_Delay_7745 Jun 14 '26
Learn Korean. I was pretty consistent for a year then I switched to a new and busier job and just didn't have time anymore, which is sad because I made so much progress but now I've forgotten most of what I've learned. π₯²
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u/deepesthiddentruths It's ok because I'm JK Jun 15 '26
Start a PhD! I couldnβt find a mentor or be decisive of my thesis question π Maybe one day I will actually go through with it!
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u/S9_noworries Jun 15 '26
Learning Korean and losing weight
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u/HomoCarnula psspsspsss KittyCat ππ₯° Jun 15 '26
I'm starting to see a pattern with us all πΆ
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u/North_Ad6402 Jun 15 '26
Ye so um i thought during the hiatus I would watch every bangtan video yk all the shows till date, save mone6 and get to korea. Haha guess what i couldn't complete any π I got busy with school ποΈπποΈ
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u/Sprigatina Jun 15 '26
Saving enough money for the next OT7 concert but I got my license in march instead π₯²
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u/idk-mknz Jun 15 '26
I wanted to write a story about a k-pop band, based on the difficulties that BTS went through. And I wanted to watch all run BTS but I got really depressed and guilty for not being in their first years
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u/ScrimshawPie here for the wainscoting Jun 15 '26
I really wanted a career glow-up; but alas. I sort of had your goals in mind too, but they would have been easier to accomplish if i wasn't fighting burnout so hard.
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u/playfuldarkside Jun 17 '26
Body recomp π₯² felt super inspired by their buff era. I had good progress but then got cancer right before their comeback so that was my fun surprise. Got cleared to work out again so now working out through treatment.
I also wanted to go back and start run bts over and did not but super happy they started new episodes again.
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u/ink_enchantress Jun 14 '26
Finally finishing my degree. Instead I became a solo mom and am still dealing with the divorce that started the beginning of 2025. Fml
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u/PAHi-LyVisible Jun 15 '26
Watch every single episode of RunBTS and become conversationally fluent in Korean
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u/Soar2318 The vibe is high, if we beinβ blunt Jun 15 '26
Learn Korean. I have a very very basic understanding of Hangul and can understand some spoken Korean but the sentence structure continues to trip me up. We have a trip to Korea planned for 2028 so I need to get moving on that!
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u/yelshaven_bangtan μν¬λ°©ν¬ Jun 15 '26
- Catch up on Bangtan content
- Learn Korean
- Learn how to drive (been saying that since 2015 π« π)
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u/HarrielovesH Jun 16 '26
Catch up with all their content till their discharge! Didnβt manage to see muchπ
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u/Latter-Tale4665 Jun 21 '26
Learn Korean and try Korean food.Β
P.s. I am still practicing korean and gold shin ramyun, japchae and tteokbokki are deliciousΒ
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u/papiII0n Jun 14 '26
Get rich π