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Unit 5: Go on Holiday with BTS

Travel with BTS in their series Bon Voyage and In The Soop.

Last Updated on January 30, 2023 by BTS 101

Back in 2016, BigHit had the idea to send BTS on a holiday.

Of course, this holiday would be fully filmed and turned into a reality show for the fans, so it was a bit of a working vacation. But still, the production company tried very hard to create for the group a more typical “young friends” experience. They gave the members an allowance and some general guidelines, but they were expected to handle the actual details of their travel as much as possible on their own, as well as cook, clean, and dress themselves while away.

The series was called Bon Voyage and it was such a huge hit – with fans and with BTS themselves – that it turned into a series. These are all must-watches for ARMY. All seasons so far include 8 episodes plus 8 funny behind-the-scenes featurettes.

Plus, most of the BV seasons have an “Episode 0” which is a short trailer and interview segment with original content that is available for free on Weverse, separate from the paid packages.

Bon Voyage 1: Scandinavia, 2016

Available on Weverse, paid content (it’s in a bundle called “3rd Anniversary Present” with other clips and the 3rd Festa concert)

The members are given just a half hour to pack before being dumped at the airport, where they have to try to check in themselves for a flight to Norway. They have an itinerary that includes Norway, Sweden, and Finland, over a five day period, and although their accommodations and activities have been pre-booked, they’ll be left to support themselves most of the time.

This season is absolutely chaotic as BTS shows that they have little experience with a lot of daily tasks. They get lost a lot, never seem to have any clean clothes, and lose so many things – including, famously, RM’s passport, which results in him having to go home early as he is unable to cross the border when they move from Sweden to Finland. V arrives a day later than everyone else as he was busy filming his kDrama Hwarang , and as a result of having different travel bookings, arrives in Sweden alone and gets on the wrong bus and ends up on a crazy adventure by himself along the side of a highway. 

At the end of the trip, their main manager Seojin and BigHit CEO Bang write the members touching letters about their future that turn out to be surprisingly on the money when it comes to predicting their greatness. The final episode features a creepy visit to a very creepy Santa’s village, but push past that part to get to the good stuff – extended interviews with each member about what it means to have given up the average things in life, like going to the movies or on a trip with friends, in exchange for the extraordinary life of being an idol.

Bon Voyage 2: Hawaii, 2017

Available on Weverse, paid content

The members are more experienced this time around, and handle the trip to Hawaii as a group of seven much more smoothly (although JK does wear the same shirt virtually every day, and even swims in it). This season features a lot of food shopping, clothes shopping, water sports, and eating, and is the origin of many well-known BTS jokes and sayings. There’s a generally relaxed vibe to this season, and the group is broken into smaller subunits for many events, allowing us to see them interacting with each other in unusual ways. Special activities include diving with sharks, a helicopter tour, 4×4 riding, hiking, a luau dinner, and learning to surf.

On the last night, they take a boat trip and each member writes a heartfelt letter to one other member. There are a lot of sweet tears involved.

Bon Voyage 3: Malta, 2018

This season is almost broken into two halves. For the first several episodes, V is missing due to a death in his family. He joins them in Episode 4, right as SUGA leaves, also due to a death in the family. The entire group of seven are only together for one lunch in Malta, and it’s moving and almost sad how the remaining six members are often confused and forgetful that one of them is missing and continue to ask for tables with seven seats anyway.

For the members that are there, this season has a lot of eating, drinking alcohol, visiting beautiful places, and complaining about the heat. There are some crazy outfits from Jin and j-hope, a lot of too-warm black outfits by SUGA and Jungkook, and absolutely gorgeous vacation wear by Jimin. There are a lot of cute subunit “dates” and some street busking by Jungkook and V. The members (except SUGA) go camping for the first time ever and have absolutely no skills in that area, and rely on the one super camper staff guy to help them out. V is sometimes sad (it was his grandmother who passed away, who had the biggest role in raising him), and gets a lot of support from the others, which is heartwarming. On the last night, they have a special dinner suspended on a platform in the air, where they write letters to their future selves.

This season was the first season where BTS were really well-known internationally. Although their fan base in Malta was still small – for example, most of the restaurant and bar staff did not know who they were, despite Jin asking often, “Do you know BTS?” – they were sometimes stalked and chased by fans, making filming difficult.

Bon Voyage 4: New Zealand, 2019

As BTS were now too internationally famous to travel anywhere in a casual style, they decided to tour the countryside of New Zealand in winter, when there would be almost no tourists. For this season, they rent a camper and an SUV and drive and camp across the south island, seeing amazing scenery and experiencing nature while doing a lot of grocery shopping and cooking. There is some snow and it’s really cold and as is typical for BTS, they are chronically underdressed and ill prepared, although they do show some greatly improved camping skills..

This season has a much quieter vibe than the other seasons as not much happens other than driving, shopping, and cooking. There are a few memorable events – hikes, horseback riding for V, some fishing, a helicopter ride, and a giant bungee swing. But in general it is just about the guys hanging out together, taking care of each other, and doing some terribly adorable car karaoke. The members make constant reference to the fact that they were apart from each other for a month before this trip due to private vacation time, and it felt strange to be away from each other – it’s so heartwarming to hear all of them mention how comfortable and happy they are to be back together.

In their closing interviews reviewing the trip, Jungkook says some confusing things about feeling sorry and apologetic and vowing to do better. This is in reference to a “scandal” that happened just before BTS left on this trip, where Jungkook was spotted having lunch with a woman. Idols in Korea are generally not allowed to publicly date in order to seem accessible to fans, and when the slightest hint of dating happens, it’s major news. In this case, JK was meeting with a friend who turned out to be a tattoo artist, and she helped him with his now-famous tattoos on his right hand that spell out ARMY and include a purple heart and the BTS logo. It’s kind of silly that this resulted in a “scandal” but such is kPop media coverage in Korea. If you keep careful watch during this season, you’ll see JK wearing a glove on his right hand most of the time to cover his new tattoos, including a ridiculous bright green rubber one while cooking on the last night.

Bonus content – if you’ve fantasized about recreating their BV4 trip, there’s an incredibly in-depth description of every stop they made here .

In The Soop 1, 2020

The COVID-19 crisis in 2020 meant that a fifth season of Bon Voyage was not possible (and really, there was maybe nowhere left on the globe where they would be able to travel in peace). So instead, we got In the Soop, a series where the members rent a large cottage beside a lake for two weeks, and spend two separate weekends there just hanging out. (Soop is the Korean word for forest.) It’s eight full episodes plus eight more behind-the-scenes short clips.

The members were able to request any kind of activities they wanted, so the cottage is super outfitted with things like puzzles, games, and Lego; musical instruments; a karaoke machine; paint and wood carving supplies; sports equipment of all kinds; fishing gear; toys; and more. It’s definitely a coronavirus getaway paradise. The main focus is on cooking as the members have to make lunch and dinner every day, with more relaxed activities in between, sometimes alone, sometimes in small groups, and sometimes all together. Some lovely artwork is created, and the members as a group spontaneously write and create a very funny theme song for the show. In general the members are left to do whatever they want – there are no challenges or organized activities, and although a few interviews feel like they were prompted, in general it’s just dudes hanging out.

It doesn’t sound like it would be interesting but the whole series is just so healing. It’s quiet and heartwarming and gentle and fun. The members are genuinely happy and delighted to be together, and the way they take care of each other is so kind and encouraging. It’s completely re-watchable and worth a purchase.

In The Soop 2, 2021

After the smashing success of In The Soop 1, HYBE built BTS their very own private getaway for In The Soop 2. It’s a forest paradise featuring three huge houses custom outfitted with a gym and gaming room, a tennis/basketball court, swimming pool, and more. BTS headed out to the compound for a short four-day vacation at the end of July 2021.

In the Soop 2 aired in October/November 2021 and had just five episodes, plus one additional behind-the-scenes outtake episode. Like the first series, their time was completely unstructured and they spent their days relaxing, playing video games, exercising, and trying a few new things like paintball and 4×4 driving. Jin and SUGA do a lot of cooking, SUGA as usual does some work, and all the members spend some time playing with Jungkook’s Doberman puppy, Bam (which means Night). In general, it’s another quiet visit to the forest for a vacation-by-proxy with the members.

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Use your invisible-ink pen to reveal HBO’s ambitious and enthralling new series, starring Hoa Xuande, Robert Downey Jr., and Sandra Oh.

The Sympathizer, which debuted on HBO this Sunday night, introduces us to the Captain (Hoa Xuande), a member of the South Vietnamese Army in 1975. The Captain is secretly a spy for the North. He reports the activities of his superiors—the General (Toan Le) and CIA agent Claude ( Robert Downey Jr. ) back to the Vietcong. He’s a communist sympathizer (hence the title of the show), but HBO’s adaptation of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s award-winning novel doesn’t delve into the Captain’s specific motivations in the premiere episode—outside of a sense of righteousness in his mission.

The Captain’s dualities do not end there. He is half Vietnamese and half French, which is a point of contention in just about every room he walks in. Is he Vietnamese enough for his mission? Does he sympathize enough? He also attended college abroad in the U.S., where he learned to speak impeccable English. Will his newfound love of American freedom and Coca-Cola impact his fight for his people back home? As the Captain says in The Sympathizer ’s opening minutes, “I was cursed to see every issue from both sides.”

In the first episode, we’re nearing the end of the Vietnam War. But as The Sympathizer reminds us in the opening title crawl, the conflict is called the American War in Vietnam. There’s always two sides to every tale—and the Captain sees both of them. The U.S. aided South Vietnam in its fight against the North, but the war’s cost of American lives greatly hurt its reputation back in America. When the U.S. finally pulled out of the country in 1973, the Vietcong took control. Saigon, the capital in the South, fell to the North. More than 7,000 South Vietnamese fled their home in a U.S.-backed evacuation mission titled Operation Frequent Wind. That’s all true. But in this work of historical fiction, the Captain is among them.

Arriving there is no small feat. To prove it, The Sympathizer begins four months before the Fall of Saigon. To be fair, the show really starts at the end of our story, when the Captain is captured by his own people, but I’ll save you the confusion (for now) and tell the story in chronological order.

At a movie theater, the General and Claude interrogate a communist sympathizer who was allegedly captured by the Captain. Throughout his mission, the Captain is occasionally forced to help the South Vietnamese to maintain his cover. Unfortunately for the woman onstage, this is one of those trying times. To cut the tension of a scene in which a woman is attacked onstage for information, The Sympathizer cracks some movie puns. Outside, there’s a poster for Death Wish , the 1974 Charles Bronson movie. The spotlight from a film projector plays the role of a bright lamp in an interrogation room—and the interrogators taunt her by calling her a “diva” who should “perform” for her audience. When they ask her for the name of her contact in the North, she stares venomously at the Captain.

The General and Claude are none the wiser. The Captain lives as a servant in the General’s house, where he teaches English to the General’s daughter and picks up his dry cleaning. He’s basically part of the family. As he sits with his superiors, the General is more concerned with what to wear to dinner than what their prisoner has to say. The woman reportedly swallowed a roll of microfilm, so the CIA is waiting to see what it contains when it comes back out the other end. As Claude tells him, “ This is counterintelligence. It gets wet down here.” Claude is just one of several antagonists that Downey plays in The Sympathizer , but we won’t spoil any of the other characters just yet.

Although the prisoner won’t reveal what the microfilm contains, the Captain knows exactly what they’ve found. A couple days earlier, our main character stole a complete staff list for the South’s secret police from a locked filing cabinet in the General’s office. Ironically, once the plans for Operation Frequent Wind were set, the General personally handed him the list. He ordered the Captain to decide who boards the evacuation plane and who stays behind. So the Captain selects the weakest members among them. His only request? A place for his friend Bon (Fred Nguyen Khan) and Bon’s family.

Even though Bon despises the Vietcong for killing his father in the war, he mysteriously remains one of the Captain’s closest friends. A doctor named Man (Duy Nguyễn), the third member of the “Three Musketeers,” is also secretly a communist sympathizer. The Captain receives his true orders from Man, who must also exist somewhere in the chain of command for the North. They exchange messages using a secret code derived from Asian Communism and the Oriental Mode of Destruction —a fictional book by a racist foreign-policy expert in America. (Also, if you’re waiting for the Captain’s real name, you’ll likely never get it. The novel never reveals it, either. So it’s just Captain from here on out. Same goes for the General.)

Part of the evacuation crew himself, the Captain pushes Man to arrest the General and his men before they can escape. Man reveals that the North has other plans in mind. Should the General safely evacuate Vietnam, the North will need “someone with the General to keep an eye on him and report back.” The Captain can’t believe it. “I’ve been living underground for three and a half years, fighting, yearning for the day of victory,” he tells him. “I want to be here and celebrate. And to help build our future! When the plan arrives and everyone’s on board, I’m going to walk up to the General and say, ‘Bon voyage, I’m staying home.’” Sorry, Captain—that’s not going to happen. As Man tells him, “Home is overrated.”

In a flash of horrific CGI and a blood-red skyline, the evacuation night is a disaster. The Vietcong rain hellfire down on the passengers as they run from a crowded bus to the airport tarmac. They’re sitting ducks out there. In the chaos, the Captain helps the General and Bon successfully board the plane. Bon’s wife and child are killed in the assault, greatly increasing the likelihood that his friend would attempt to kill him if he ever found out he was a spy. For the Captain’s sake, I hope that event never comes to pass. But as a member of an audience watching a television show for the tension and drama, I really hope it does.

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