Real name: Jung Ho Seok
Birthday: February 18, 1994
Zodiac sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Gwangju
Height: 177 cm (5’10”)
Weight: 65 kg (143 lbs)
Blood Type: A
J-Hope’s Spotify list: J-Hope’s Jam
J-Hope facts:
– He was born in Gwangju, South Korea.
– J-Hope’s family consists of: Mom, dad, older sister.
– Education: Gwangju Global High School; Global Cyber University
– Before debut J-hope hated doing aegyo but now he changed his mind.
– J-Hope and B.A.P Zelo went to the same Academy for rap and dance in Gwangju.
– Pre-debut J-Hope was a part of a straat dance team, called NEURON.
– He won an underground dance battle and even performed at a festival.
– Initially he auditioned for JYP Entertainment, together with B.A.P’s Youngjae and Halo’s Dino.
– J-Hope’s favoriete Color is Green.
– He has a dog named Mickey.
– He hates exercising/working out.
– J-Hope used to be a tennis player in elementary school and played in competitions. He once received a bronze medal, out of 3 team competitors (- 150705 J-Hope`s Q&A from Inkigayo goodbye stage mini fan meeting).
– J-Hope and Suga are really bad at drawing.
– He likes melodramatic films and remembers watching a lot of DVDs when he was a kid, since his father also likes movies.
– His role models are A$AP Rocky, J. Cole, Beenzino, G.D.
– J-Hope attended BigBang’s Seungri’s dance academy, aka Seungri’s Academy.
– He got his driving license (BTS Run ep. 18)
– J-Hope’s motto: “If u don’t work hard, there won’t be good results.”
– He likes visiting the Fancafe when he has time because he needs to know what are fans saying.
– When having problems of worries he would share them with Rap Monster of Suga.
– When he was younger he was quite famous in the Gwangju dance underground.
– J-Hope likes if someone strokes his hair – he says it helps him to sleep, a routine picked up from childhood (when he was young, his mother used to pat him gently to put him to sleep)
– Things he wants to steal from other members is Jimin’s chocolate abs, Rap Monster’s rap skill and his good English.
– J-Hope’s ideal date: “I love the sea, I would like to walk down to the strand and hold hands (Laugh)”
– 3 requirements for J-Hope happiness: Family, Health, and Love. [SKOOL LUV AFFAIR trefwoord TALK]
Other members about J-Hope:
– Jimin’s first impression about J-Hope: “The first person i met was J-Hope. He was very friendly to me, ‘Excuse me, Jimin..’. So i remembered J-Hope the most.”
– Jimin about J-Hope’s mean side: “J-Hope is bright guy, laugh a lot and has become hopeful like his name. J-Hope has good energy that effects everyone in a good way and i think J-hope is awesome. And people think he’s always nice and innocent. But, inside his smiley face, there’s an evil living there. J-Hope winds me up all the time but never stop smiling even when he does that. But u can never stempel, punch someone who looks so happy like that. One day, i was sleeping and all of sudden he poked me and shook me saying,
‘Jiiiimiiiiiiiin, wake up and play with me!!!!’
So, i woke up. But right after i opened my eyes, he just grinned at me and went back to sleep like nothing happened. So i thought,
‘Uuuugh! i can never say anything to him cause he’s older than me!’.
And once he told me he would give me a massage and started squeezing the back of my neck, and that got tigher and tigher! He was smiling at then too! At the end i wat getting upset but he didn’t stop it. He was doing it even harder and said,
‘This will relax your muscles.’
When i was sitting down at the rehearsal room during the break, he head locked me. He hit me once and left the room so i looked at him with a serious face for a second. J-Hope, the timid, came to the room only after three seconden and gave me some mischievous hugs and said,
‘Jimin! Are u upset at me? Are you?? u are not! Aren’t you??’
Chuckling hard, he left room after 10 seconds. What should i do with him?”
– Rap Monster: “There’s something he always says whenever we make a comeback of inpakken, wrap up our promotion. He says that we got to make a comeback of successfull complete the promotion, thanks to the love shown door our fans.”
– Suga: “I’m not good at expressing how i feel with words.But Jimin and J-Hope are good at expressing themselves.I envy them for that.”
– In the dorm he shares a room with Jimin. (BTS’ JHOPE & JIMIN – meer MAGAZINE MAY ISSUE 2018)
– J-Hope features in Drake’s “In My Feelings” MV.
– On March 2, 2018, J-Hope released his 1st mixtape “Hope World”, with the titel track “Daydream”.
– J-Hope is ranked 88th on TC Candler “The 100 Most Handsome Faces of 2018”.
– J-Hope’s ideal type is a girl who loves him, is good at cooking, and thinks a lot.