stray kids‘ blow chan is the latest member of K-Pop’s most iconic friendship group.
The ’97-liners is a male idol friend group that was born with bts Yes GOT7it is maknaes jungkook Yes yugyom, respectively. The team has grown to now include BTS’s Jungkook, GOT7’s Yugyeom, and other members. maknae Bam Bam, SEVENTEENit is mingyu, STARit is cha-eun-woo, NCTit is jaehyunand now apparently Stray Kids leader Bang Chan!
The group of friends are known to hang out as often as their schedule allows. Recently, the group, consisting of Jaehyun, Jungkook, Eunwoo, and Bang Chan, went to a nice steakhouse where they left their autographs.
The owner uploaded a photo of the idols’ autographs to Instagram and thanked her with a cute caption!
It’s no surprise that Bang Chan is also a member of this friend group considering he has a reputation as one of the friendliest idols in the industry.
Anyway, this is the most bang chan thing ever hugging the members and getting close to them, it’s just him please. pic.twitter.com/h5G7rJgBZh
— saw ☕️ (@binchanb) April 15, 2022
chan talked about jaemin and jeno on his live! he said it was fun filming with them as they were comfortable with each other, he also said that jaemin and jeno are dongsaengs he appreciates and is friendly with, he also encouraged them to be mcs for kcon! pic.twitter.com/IhVwG2mngX
— thinkskzdream (@thinkskzdrm) August 22, 2022
But now, knowing he’s officially part of the 1997 understudy group, several K-Pop fans realize that he’s probably been friends with Jungkook for quite some time…
Netizens may recall that Bang Chan played BTS music many times and praised the group on his weekly live show. Chan’s room.
You have to admit that he is good at everything. I listened to this song, even between hours these days, because the song is so good.
– Bang Chan talks about Jungkook while listening to “Stay Alive”
Bang Chan especially expressed his admiration for Jungkook. He had the most precious reaction to the solo “Euphoria!” from Jungkook!
bring chan back in reaction to jungkook’s euphoria to celebrate they’re friends 🥰pic.twitter.com/bR22SBU5Sb
— btskz speaker 💿 (@613MENU) August 25, 2022
However, that’s not all that convinced fans that the two have been friends for a while.
In a 2020 interview with To accessBTS members were asked what their favorite English words are. Jungkook replied “breaky” (also spelled “brekky”, “brekkie”, etc.) without hesitation. fluent English speaker, MHe was so confused that he misheard her as the name “Becky” as her friend. Becky G.
The interviewer and Jungkook explained that “rupture” is a slang term for breakfast. However, it is specifically used by Australians.
he was so proud of himself when he found out “breaky” was a slang term for breakfast JUNGKOOK ENGLISH KING pic.twitter.com/WajOK5frH2
— myrcka⁷ 🧚♂️ (@bffjeongguk) February 23, 2020
And where would Jungkook have learned the term other than from an Australian? Of course, STAY acknowledges that Bang Chan is Australian and has been heard using this slang before.
Moral of the story:
Australians are lazy and shorten everything lol 😂
g’day = good day
breakfast = breakfast
barbie = bbq
arvo = late#StrayKids #StrayKids_ASC #BangChan #FelixLee pic.twitter.com/1blIBILZ8S— jamie ❄️ (@snowflakeseeker) April 3, 2018
So it seems more than plausible that Bang Chan taught Jungkook! At least many Internet users are convinced of this.
@skzedit08 pretty sure he learned that from chan 😭 #chan #jungkook #straykids #skz #bts #fyp
♬ original sound – h 💫
i knew bangchan was on line 97 when jungkook said breaky https://t.co/04jQUfgevS
— ikie 🌈 (@renejins) August 25, 2022
Earlier, Bang Chan subtly hinted that he was a member of 97’s understudy during an episode of Chan’s room.
@skzedit08 this is all i ever wanted 😭 #bangchan #chan #eunwoo #jaehyun #jungkook #straykids #skz #nct #astro #bts #army #stay #aroha #nctzen
♬ Belle – Stray Kids
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