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Jeon Jeong-guk (Hangul: 전정국; born on September 1, 1997), better known by his stage name Jungkook, is a South Korean singer and songwriter. He is the main vocalist and youngest member of the South Korean boy band BTS, managed under Big Hit Entertainment. As a BTS songwriter, he has 6 songs accredited to his name by the Korea Music Copyright Association.

1997-2017: Early life and education
Jeon Jeong-guk was born on September 1, 1997, in Busan, South Korea, where he lived with his mother, father, and older brother.

Jungkook attended Baekyang Elementary School, Baekyang Middle School, and transferred to Singu Middle School. He attended high school at the School of Performing Arts Seoul. Jungkook graduated from SOPA on February 2, 2017.

2011: Superstar K3
Jungkook auditioned for the popular survival reality show "Superstar K3" in 2011. He was eliminated, but many companies had the chance to watch his audition video, leading to him becoming one of the most in-demand singers at that time. Seven different companies offered him contracts, such as JYP Entertainment, Cube Entertainment, and Bang Si-hyuk's company Big Hit Entertainment. After seeing the rapper and future leader of BTS, he ended up in Big Hit Entertainment since Jungkook thought RM was 'really cool'.

2011-2013: Trainee Days
After signing with Big Hit Jungkook left his parents and older brother in Busan and moved to Seoul, a big capital city where he didn't have close family or friends, and started his trainee life while started high school.

The members of BTS have revealed Jungkook’s personality pre debut used to be reserved and shy and the first months were extremely difficult for him, he used to speak just the necessary and also wait for the rest of trainees to go to sleep to take a shower and eat. Big Hit’s CEO Bang PD also revealed on a interview for the media Osen Jungkook was close to not debut in the group because he used to cry every time the evaluation team of the company asked him to sing, reason why his true talent couldn’t shine from the beginning.

Once Bang PD decided he wanted to turn his new boy group from a hip hop group into an k-pop group, training in dancing became a priority for the company and Jungkook didn't have any previous training or experience on it, reason why Big Hit decided to send him for one month to Los Angeles, California, with Big Hit's dance choreographer Son Sungdeuk. In the U.S Jungkook learned learned urban style, female dancing style and powerful dance choreos by many famous choreographers, the experience helped him to find passion and freedom in dancing, which was different to the method they were using in South Korea, Jungkook gained a big love for dancing that made he even consider quit being an idol and become a dancer.

2013-2014: Debut with BTS and career beginnings
"Main article: BTS" Jungkook debuted with the members Rap Monster, Jin, SUGA, J-Hope, Jimin and V in June 12, 2013 in the group BTS (Bangtan Boys) Jungkook debuted as the youngest member or maknae, main vocalist and center of the choreographies. BTS' debut stage was in Mnet's M Countdown with the tittle track "No More Dream" from their debut single album, 2 Cool 4 Skool, the group's debut counted with moderate reception in sales, but gained attention of fans thanks to their choreographies.

As main vocal Jungkook took the lead in big part of BTS' discography since debut, but he gained attention for his rap in the two first singles the group released "No more Dream" and "We are Bulletproof Pt. 2" for his relatable and iconic lines in the lyrics "Okay, mum, I'm going to the library"

Jungkook gained the name of "Golden Maknae"

One of the most special moments for Jungkook was when he had the opportunity to perform in the same stage as one of his biggest idols G-Dragon of Big Bang, it was in the music show by SBS Inkigayo on September 15,2013. while both groups BTS and Big Bang were promoting together on music shows, Jungkook confessed it was a dream come true thanks to G-Dragon he was inspired to choose a music career “Big Bang G-Dragon is my idol. He talked to me once when we performed at a Korean music program. I was really happy and my heart fluttered.”

2015-2017: Rise of BTS' Popularity, Records and International Achievements
In September 2015 Jungkook participated in the project One Dream One Korea among other important artists in South Korea joining to produce a song in memory of the Korean War. The Campaign called One K Global was launched as a part of a movement for Korean reunification and to contribute to a larger effort to advance regional peace and global security. The song was released and presented at the One K Concert in Seoul October 15, 2015.

Artistry
During the early days, BTS was promoted predominately as a hip-hop group with strong choreos as tittle tracks, which made Jungkook prioritize his job as sub rapper in live performances, it was later that the group started to experiment with a different styles like electro and pop without losing their hip hop influence, trying to showcase catchy melodies and vocals. Songs like I NEED U from The Most Beautiful Moment in Life: part 1 as tittle track gave Jungkook the chance to showcase his range with occasional falsettos and high notes. Ashraf Khater from Yahoo described Jungkook’s voice as versatile for different genres and specially noted his vocal power for slow songs "While he's proven that he's indeed versatile when it comes to adapting to different kinds of genres, it's the slow songs that showcase just how good of a singer Jungkook really is."

Initially, Jungkook admitted to being self-conscious of his role as a main vocalist of a top group, noting his biggest goal is to improve as an all-rounded artist taking care of the entire production and composition of songs to the choose of concept and art, he also has expressed his frustration for taking so long to learn to use instruments to create beats. Since 2016 he's been focusing in learning to play different instruments like guitar, electric piano, drums and specially the electronial music intrument MIDI to create beats. Jungkook expressed to the Korean magazine Focus his current desire to compose a full song to gift music to himself to show the results of his hard work and being conscious of his evolution. He also explained the importance for an artist to participate in the creation of their own music, to him the kind of music and emotions an artist has are different from what other producers, including the own members of BTS, try to express so it’s important to have a cohesion between both “I want to make my emotions into a story and hear it in sound.”

In the concept book from the Wings album released in summer 2017 Jungkook stated he gets inspiration from a different range of genres and artists that are influencing his beginning as producer and is expecting to incorporate into his future releases. He has been influenced by pop ballads, quiet and emotional songs from artists like IU with piano and guitar sounds, but he also enjoys loud genres such as hip hop and EDM from artists like G-Dragon and Justin Bieber , two of his favorites artists. On an interview to Han Eun Kwa for the korean media Korea Joongang Daily Jungkook accepted the members of BTS and producers in Big Hit were great inspiration and motivation to start creating music “Since the others were all producing our entire album, I naturally learned how to do it by observing them. They helped me to understand the joys of songwriting and producing.”

According to Kim Min Seo from the korean media Newsen and Star1 Magazine, Jungkook is on a list of idols whose solo debut is most anticipated by professionals in the industry “He has a voice that is reminiscent of the vocals of soulful pop singers.” Professionals in the industry also noted the reason why Jungkook is appreciated as the vocalist is because of his soulful and gentle voice charm that distinguishes him from other singers, which makes him the voice-tone bully of BTS, a Korean phrase used when someone has the power in a specific area.

Refering to Jungkook's dance habilities, Big Hit's

Golden Closet
"See also: Golden Closet"

Public Image
Jungkook has been recognized by the Korean and international media for his talents singing, dancing and his good personality whenever he attends variety shows and events. It was thanks to one of his covers he was recognized by Zion.T, one of his idols, who personally chose Jungkook as the best artist making covers of his songs and invited him to perform his song Yanghwa Bridge together on national television at KBS Song Festival 2015.

In August 2016 Jungkook decided to attend the popular music show King of Masked Singer by the broadcasted channel MBC to celebrate a coming-of-age ceremony for turning 20 years old in korean age. In the show he got appreciation for his vocals by the judges, general audience and netizens. The judges praising his vocals mentioned he was too good of a singer to be an idol. "He uses this crying technique that gets people into the emotions." Billboard also praised his participation on the show.

Jungkook has been praised for his voice in international media. Billboard recognize his evolution since debut at a young age "He’s the youngest member of BTS, but don’t mistake age for inexperience. Jungkook takes front and center during many of BTS’ songs and as he’s grown older so have his skills." singer Charlie Puth praised him for his cover of Puth's song We Don’t Talk Anymore on Twitter, receiving the attention from important media like Naver, Teen VOGUE and ELLE Magazine

In 2016 Gallup Korea has released their results for 2016’s Top idols in which Jungkook was top 20 Jungkook also entered the TIME Magazine list of musical artist most mentioned in 2016 and was recognized by Billboard as the most popular k-pop artist on Tumblr on Summer 2017.

In 2017 Jungkook was No.1 in the poll of magazine in Taiwan My Colors the favorite Korean artist by Taiwanese audience, his big popularity in Japan also made him be chosen to throw the first pitch at the Pro-Baseball Interleague Match “Hanshin Tigers vs Hokkaido’s Nippon Ham Fighters” held in the iconic Koshien Stadium in Osaka, Japan, Jungkook throw the ball without bouncing, baseball officials praised his pitch speed exceed 100 km even though it was the first time he was part of a professional game.

Jungkook holds the record of boy group member which fanbase has most followers on Twitter with more than 1.2 million. He also holds the record as a male artist whose fancam has the most views on Youtube with more than 10 million on his fancam released by the official M2 channel by the show MCountdown, record achieved in just three weeks proving his popularity around the globe. Jungkook is also the artist with more views in the app V LIVE created by Naver and specialized in live stream Korean idol activities, he holds the record for a solo live stream with more than 2.5M views which proves the positive reception he has as an artist around the world.

Achievements
"See also: List of awards and nominations received by BTS."Debuting as the youngest member of BTS with 15 years old and being active part of the rise of the group has brought Jungkook big achievements since young age. With only 19 years old, Jungkook became in the youngest artist part of the list of best seller artists surpassing one million physical sales and getting platinum album in South Korea with the studio album Wings released by BTS in 2016 which recorded more than 1.5 Million physical album sales.. Jungkook is also the youngest artist registered to sell 1 Million copies with one single album with the mini album Love Yourself: Her.

Jungkook is the youngest artist among all the Korean acts to enter to the Billboard 200 and HOT 100 charts in United States peaking in #7 for album sales with the mini album Love Yourself: Her and 67 for singles with the tittle track DNA. Jungkook is also the youngest Korean artist to enter official United Kingdom charts in 2016 with the album Wings and once again in 2017 with Love Yourself: Her peaking #14 on albums charts. With 19 years old Jungkook became in the youngest korean artist to ever attend Billboard Music Awards and win an award with BTS’ Social 50 Award in May 23 2017.

Jungkook was presented along with BTS with an award for his contribution to Hallyu Wave at the 2016 Korea Popular Culture and Arts Award Ceremony held by the South Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism in the category Commendation of Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism. Jungkook received the “Special Achievement Award” at his SOPA graduation ceremony. Na Ji Yeon from Starcast Dispatch noted the award was given to Jungkook for his ability to not only promote as a global idol, but also to work hard as a high school student. This award is not only meant to praise the recipients, but also holds the meaning that they have proven themselves to be role models as SOPA graduates.

Personal Life
In February 2014 Jungkook entered The School of Dramatic Arts in Seoul (SOPA). Due to his exhaustive schedules overseas, he had to postpone higschool in 2015 to then resume in 2016 and finally graduated in February 7, 2017, one year later than his fellow 97 liners, reason why Jungkook couldn’t present exams for college admissions in 2016. Jungkook graduated with honorable mention for his works spreading Korean culture around the world and he was publicy congratulated by important guvernamental ents like the police of Seoul.

Endorsements
In October 2017 Jungkook was selected along BTS as one of the only 100 artists and athletes to receive a special edition1of1

Philanthropy
Since debut days Jungkook has participated in multiple charity activities along with BTS and also as solo. In 2016 he relealed to have plans of participate in charity to help foundations helping straw dogs.

In 2017 it was revealed Jungkook donated 10 million KRW (US$8.500) for the Sewol Ferry Disaster 4/16 Family Council in honor of of the victims of the Sewol tragedy, for a total of 100 million KRW (US$85.000) donated by BTS and their company Big Hit.

In November 1, 2017 on a press conference in Seoul, BTS announced a partnership with UNICEF on an anti-violence campaign #BTSLOveMyself. The campaign is committed to inspire others to make the world a safer place for children and teenagers victims of any kind of violence. Jungkook expressed in the press conference his wishes to help UNICEF for a long time, as reported by Hong Dam-young from Korea Herald he tried to unsuccessfully participate multiple times while the group was touring overseas and showed his excitetment for finally being able to help. The project created in honor of their album series Love Yourself was announced to initially last for two years. For the campaign the members initially donated 500 million KRW (US$447,400), they will also donate the 3% of their income from album sales of the Love Yourself series and 100% of all profits from the sale of merchandise for the campaign.

Discography
"See also: BTS Discography"

Tours
"See also: List of BTS Concert tours"