Jimin praised for his dance and compared to Kim Hong Do's 'Dancing Boy' painting by the Hankook Ilbo Newspaper

On the 9th of July, to celebrate ARMY's birthday, BTS Launched a street gallery project with Google Arts & Culture. With this collaboration, fans would be treated to a street view tour of the sites and cities that hold special memories for BTS.

The project explored 14 iconic spots through artworks curated by each member. For his experiment, Jimin chose the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore because during their Love Yourself concert in the country, he had a memorable experience. His tour was thus based on loving oneself, as he has been on a journey of self-love and acceptance in the past few years and wanted to showcase several themed artworks that remind him of who he was.

Among these were artworks that spoke of his love for dance, one of them being the Celestial dancer because dancing has always been a common language to express oneself cross-culturally. Another one was the painting of the Dancing boy by Kim Hong-do and a Korean Fan which reminded him of his Buchaechum traditional fan dance at MMA 2018, a routine that earned him acclaim and a plaque of appreciation. Through this, he especially felt happy to showcase his love for dancing and Korean cultural heritage to the world.

The Dancing Boy, in particular, caught the attention of the Hankook Ilbo newspaper, and there was an article about it. They mentioned Jimin saying, "In the painting, the dance is beautiful and resembles Jimin on the stage, who breaks the mold with fine lines even in group dance." Like the painting of the boy who supports his body with the left foot on tiptoe and swings on his arms is full of excitement. Jimin, who was trained in modern and classical dance, is always able to immerse himself in dance and feels liberated.

Recently Jimin shared that he had gotten into running as a means to clear his mind, a routine he found effective. To echo the sentiment, he selected the Sprinter, a sculpture by Charles Albert López, and the Terracotta Panathenaic prize amphora jar, saying that when running, the sound of wind passing by his ears silences the mind clearing it up.

On the subject of loving oneself, Jimin displayed a textile design with horizontal undulating bundles of pearls and heart shapes over a background of alternating overlapping scales to illustrate the need to listen to the heart, being attentive to its intricacies in order to know what he wants and allow himself to be happy. The mechanical box-shaped greeting card of dancing and bucolic cupids bringing bouquets also applied the same idea.