A couple of weeks ago, a video of Jin was uploaded on the internet, which is going viral now. In that video, we see Jin drunkenly with the female rapper.
The incident occurred during an interview to which the BTS member was invited. The video has been uploaded on YouTube and received around 14 million views on that platform.
This interview was held in a small room, barely big enough for 3 people instead of a well-funded set, and the female rapper Lee Young-Ji was the host of the show. In the show’s episode, she introduces the title “Nothing Much Prepared”, which is appropriate to the interview’s theme since everything in the interview, including questions and activities, must be improvised.
The interview marked the last episode of this season where the singer of the hit song “The Astronaut” was invited as a guest. On this occasion, the singer decided to toast with an alcoholic drink and salty crackers to celebrate it. Jin initially hesitated, got into the toast, and eventually got drunk. According to some of his fans, this incident happened because of the stress that military service enlistment could give him. Jin had previously not agreed to get drunk on camera.
Jin has co-written and released three solo tracks with BTS, “Awake,” “Epiphany,” and “Moon” in 2016, 2018, and 2020, respectively, and all of them reached on top of South Korea’s Gaon Digital Chart. The singer released his first independent song, “Tonight,” a digital track in 2019. On October 28, 2022, he released his debut solo song, “The Astronaut.” Along with singing, the singer also hosted many South Korean music programs from 2016 to 2018.
For his contributions to Korean culture, he was awarded, along with his bandmates, the fifth-class Hwagwan Order of Cultural Merit by the President of South Korea in 2018.