"Human Acts (소년이 온다)", which Taehyung read during his military service, will be featured in the <BTS’s Library> exhibition hosted by the National Library of Korea. (I’m quite proud of this. 🤗👍)
[Maeil Business Newspaper]
With BTS’s historic comeback stage in Gwanghwamun just two days away, five of Korea’s leading cultural institutions will be operating special “K-Culture programs” related to BTS.
The National Library of Korea will host a special exhibition titled <BTS’s Library> from the 20th through next month’s 12th. The exhibition will take place along the “Path of Knowledge” on the basement level of its Digital Library.
Under the theme “Books That Inspired BTS’s Music!”, the exhibition will introduce 47 works of Korean literature that BTS members have read or drawn creative inspiration from.
A novel, Human Acts (소년이 온다), written by novelist Han Kang—who won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature—and based on the Gwangju Uprising, is included in BTS’s library.
At the time of her Nobel Prize win in 2024, BTS member V shared a congratulatory message on social media, revealing himself as a reader by saying, “Author! I read Human Acts during my military service.”
Another member, RM, also mentioned the book during a 2017 broadcast on the global live-streaming platform V LIVE, saying, “The writing was so vivid that it left a strong impression on me.”