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[–] [email protected] 137 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Wait, does it not stand for "behind the scenes" wrt the K-pop group?

[–] [email protected] 67 points 11 months ago

Wait, does it not stand for “behind the scenes” wrt the K-pop group?

I thought it stood for Boppan Tangnam Style.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 11 months ago

Nah, for the Kpop group it's a shortening of the group's full Korean name Bangtan Sonyeondan which in English translates to "Bulletproof Boy Scouts". Though in recent years they apparently also added "Beyond the Scene" to try to show how they've grown since they first began.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

It does stand for behind the scenes, but it is also a popular kpop group, the bangtan boys (bangtan sonyeondan in Korean) (everybody just calls them BTS)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

That’s some linguistic gymnastics right there