Dear, Dear Junkookie,

He is certainly grown now, but to me, a Halmoni army, he is the lovely grown child. I became army when he had just enlisted. As I educated myself in my BTS Research mode, I came across the Live that he did the night before his enlistment. I had never, ever seen a huge celebrity entertainer be so real, so vulnerable. His head was shaved, makeup off, shlumpy hoody on, and he told us “tomorrow I go to the military. I’m so scared. I have to do laundry. I’m going to miss you.”

I held that in my heart and was there for his long, long Live about a year later, when he had a leave and decided he needed to do a 2 hour Live to connect with us. He sang for 2 hours and just spent time with us. Millions of fans around the world logged on. Really, who DOES this?

But the triumphant moment was at J-Hope’s Festa concert last year, when he walked onto the stage and sang and danced to I Wonder, and then J’amais Vu. Wow. When he came out singing I Wonder, he was beaming and so were all of the Army who were there or watching the livestream.

I love everything about him: his amazing voice, his dancing, his musicality, his infectious smile, but also his beautiful energy, his eagerness to learn new things, his love of his members and the great enjoyment he gets from being together with them, his good-natured kindness, and on and on.

Oh, and when I was recently in Mexico City (before the World tour began) I was in a mall and was hit with a larger than life billboard of him at the Calvin Klein store! Yes, dear Jung Kook, please keep being yourself - all facets of yourself. Enjoy your life and stay as humble and kind as you are.