Americans Reacts To BTS's Children Books Challenge (Run BTS 143)

In today's episode of couples React, we react to Run BTS episode 143 (with an english sub) for the first time!
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[@wesandsteph6460]

patreon.com/wesandsteph FOR: -Bts Bon Voyage Reaction -Run BTS Tennis Challenge (129 & 130) -BTS Japanese Music Videos -House Of Army & more EVERY WEEK!!

[@purpleashaaaaaa3387]

patreon is not available in our country ㅠㅠ

[@ziyasunshine9225]

Can u guys pls try to upload on youtube or someother app..ah..i wanted to watch it too .sadly patreon is not available in my country too...or patreon free so we can watcb through link..only if u can or else its k

[@RA-eg7ev]

Please can you try to make the BTS videos on patreon free or upload it somewhere else because some countries don't have patreon 😭😭😭

[@mac9822]

Please react to the Game Caterer collab with Run BTS. It was very fun. It's in Game Caterer channel in KZbin but it got blocked when uploaded here so please upload your reaction on Patreon to that too.

[@user-nc5kq2jo9z]

I’ll probably join in may!

[@madisondaniellee]

Steph randomly crying about Match Girl is the biggest mood ever

[@spoopyjhope]

Ikr 😭😭

[@ellecbruce8229]

ikrr

[@Sa-jw5on]

HAHAHA SHE'S SO CUTE

[@pammee18xyz26]

Haha she's cute

[@salsabilasyif12]

I luv her... She's cute^^

[@zeenath6698]

The little match stick girl is actually about a poor orphan who sold matches to make a living and one day in the winter time it's really cold at night so she keeps lighting the matches she has to sell to keep her warm and each time she lights one she imagines(?) she has food, shelter, a family etc. basically at the end she runs out of matches falls asleep and freezes to death 💀

[@iamscoliosisgirl]

I always thought it has a happy ending 😢

[@Dee-hl1gv]

💔🥺

[@honeygracecastromayor6839]

This is a children storiy? What was the author thinking at that moment.

[@CheeseuMoi_]

I know it's way too late to answer, but probably it was that type of history that wanted to increase empathy during certain periods of history. Like, people used to think that poor and homeless people were dying on the streets because they deserved it, didn't matter the reasons behind it. Maybe it was also a way to open people's eyes to the reality of so many children being in really bad conditions just for being born, just like the match stick girl and many times even worse :( Sorry if I have misspellings or if something isn't understandable ;; I'm not fluent.

[@iDoNtHavEThiNk31]

@@CheeseuMoi_ 😭💔😭

[@j4015]

Jin is such a b*llshitter and have wild imagination he can make stories on the spot. 😂 I love all stories, especially the One Strand Hair because it the moral revolves around BTS' message, to Love Yourself.

[@lizdemarco9856]

why did you bleep bull and not shitter 💀

[@j4015]

@@lizdemarco9856 coz I like the word shit lol jk. I just realized now I bleeped the wrong word. 😅

[@joaniewwh3502]

yes, i really loved the one hair boy. 😭💜 most times, we always look for things we want cos it's human nature to be insatiable. but the truth is that oftentimes, we forget what we have so instead of happiness, we usually end up with discontent... and that's just sad.

[@anagi5561]

Jin is a genius actually he is just a humble and so chill guy... but he's actually so intelligent. imagine continuously taking his class as college student until his masteral as MBA while doin his all activities as BTS... 😊😊😊💜💜💜

[@nalishachetty7287]

The fact that their stories had educational meanings was so amazing. This was such a great episode.

[@mubz7booklover589]

I have alopecia, I was born with hair but it fell out age 5 and never grew back again. Jins story was very touching to me actually but in a funny silly way😊💜💜

[@lela1002]

Jungkook dying over "Peupeu" is the cutest thing ever!

[@lillieauthement6474]

Yes jungkook is an amazing artist, and he actually gets that from his family. His dad is really good at drawing, and I remember seeing a portrait his dad drew of jungkook. The portrait looked so realistic and was very impressive. Jungkook’s brother does more digital art, and I believe he has an Instagram account where you can see some of his art. His family is very talented, and that definitely plays a part in why jungkook is so gifted.

[@beefgirl89]

Jin is brilliant! The way his story conveys the message that they champion: love yourself!

[@emjimcydsumwidener5979]

Jin actually loves reading story book. According to him when he was a child he reads a lot of children's book.

[@itsskye003]

Jin killed it with the stories in this episode 😆

[@shweta7503]

Jin was so good in this episode and as always funny and yes Jungkook is an excellent painter and artist he can sketch,paint and even design stuff there are lots of instances and videos portraying his talent He painted during In the Soop and once he made an amazing drawing in a white board with marker and he reproduced a burnt painting used in the Wings short films he is brilliant.... Jimin is also good at drawing

[@mubz7booklover589]

Jk is an artist , if you watch bts in the soop season 1 Jk painting will amaze you. Hes very talented . I love how adorablely V and Hobi were working together so cute☺💜💜

[@Anggraita]

Jin is major in acting when he was in college, so he can make a story easily as machine😂

[@samaygutierrezgutierrez9073]

Jin is amazing, he is such a creative guy, he even draw the boy, amazing 😍. All of them are incredible 😂

[@phoebeahn8941]

For those of you who don't know. There's different dialects in different Korean provinces. It's called satoori and if like the English equivalent of an accent. Based on where you're from, your sentence intonation could climb up or down. That's why at 5:01 Jimin was messing around with the sentence in satoori 😂

[@hkllm9899]

Yes, they do have their own form of manga in S.Korea. They also have webtoons there as well. It's called manhwa and it's really big there. It's colored and done in long strips which makes it different from manga. One of the most popular manhwa is Solo Leveling. It's popular worldwide as well.

[@Tsetse249]

Korean webcomics are called Manhwa and they are really, really popular all over the world. Manhwa's have all kind of genre like manga and they are fully colored with amazing graphics. BTS even have their own webtoon called "Save me" which is related to the Bangtan Universe and "7 fates CHAKHO" which started recently and a supernatural action webcomic.

[@user-qd5gr8ql2w]

I love how everyone in the production crew was laughing at their imagination 😂

[@BansheePurple]

Jin is so creative 😭💜

[@danielamino3800]

I really loved Jin's story it was so cute! Thay all did such a great job

[@twoohugs]

I think the message from "the little match girl" is either "have compassion and be charitable", because the girl's suffering is a result of her dad's cruelty and the passerby's apathy; or "there is hope and happiness even in suffering", since the little girl died in warmth and happiness despite her misery. I used to think this is a very sad story, but as I grew up I realized this could be considered a happy ending for the little girl, because surviving means she would continue to be abused by her dad, while dying means she is now in the warm and loving embrace of her grandmother. (at least in the version I read, in the end there is an illustration of her grandmother welcoming her in heaven.)

[@moonlightmoonchild1133]

32:12 webtoons and manga comics are very popular in korea!!! especially webtoons, because they actual platform "webtoon" was created by a south korean company. btw bts has two webtoons there🌚

[@mjbangtan3777]

I seriously want bighit to makes these stories into actual books👏 because I would definitely buy it 💜

[@gold_coin7]

The moral in “The little Match girl”: the world sometimes isn’t fair. She was poor orphan girl and tried to work as a match seller. She worked hard but didn’t made it at the end. She had dreams about loving family, cosy home and delicious food. At the end she chose “the dream world” where she’s happy and well-fed instead of a cruel reality. Sometimes people just can’t find strength to live and we shouldn’t judge them.

[@MsSaby97]

10:33 omg I think that story is also animated, or at least it has an animated version because I am pretty sure it is on a DVD of christmas stories I watched as a child 😭 it made me cry a lot

[@charismae9419]

I always like the idea of BTS playing one shot D&D with Jin as the DM!!! Everybody is so good in roleplaying, because they can ride with each other.

[@itsskye003]

I have no reason to buy a book of childrens stories but I would 100% buy it if they published it 😅

[@NadNadToday]

Yeah the little match girl is really a sad story for kids. It was the first English children's story that I read when I was in elementary school because English is not my first language, I read it because the English teacher gave me the task to do story telling in front of my class. And after reading that story, I cried a lot😭 but I still chose that story for my speaking test🥲

[@KARMA_Camilla]

Funnily enough, the story is not actually an English story. It was written by Danish poet and author H. C. Andersen who also wrote The little mermaid, The ugly duckling, The Snow Queen, The Emperor's New Clothes, Thumbelina, and a bunch more fairytales. H. C Andersen is officially recognized as a National Treasure here in Denmark. :)

[@NadNadToday]

@@KARMA_Camilla ah thanks for the information. You know, me as the elementary school kid back then never search about the original language of this story and where it come from😂 thanks to you, now i know☺

[@naelovesbangtan0405]

"the boy can't do photosynthesis" lol

[@anagi5561]

Manga in Korea is called Manhwa and yes its a real trend in Korea... actually alot of K-Dramas recently are came from Manwha and even BTS got their own stories/collab in Webtoons...

[@loontan]

omg steph crying over little match girl she’s such a sweetheart 😭

[@marshmallo1316]

Jimin and Joons story was adorable and the illustration too😭💗

[@honeygracecastromayor6839]

Now I know why steph can't watch sad videos. You're so soft.🥺💜

[@user-qd5gr8ql2w]

That's why she was so scared from the Singularity MV 😶

[@BlazeOfOnePiece]

And Twilight twt acc be like: "the official twitter account of that fairytale involving wolves" 🤣🤣🤣🤣 ...Jin wasn't wrong afterall!!

[@ccx7004]

Oh no, you made me cry too when you were talking about the little match girl! Growing up in europe, I know all the fairytales you mentioned too, most of the famous western fairytales come from Germany, France or Denmark or places in those regions (Grimm Brothers, Hans Christian Andersen, etc). I hadn’t heard of the korean stories they mentioned though! Jin is great at improv and thinking on his feet, he’s super creative like that. Thanks for this, I loved this episode so much 😂💜

[@MarinaEariel]

A Dog of Flanders is a novel about a kid and his dog (the dog is Patrasche). It's from an English author but somehow it's pretty well known in several Asian countries, with lots of film and animation adaptations. I don't remember a wolf there but maybe they've seen/read a different adaptation

[@shreyashi2096]

I thought the story of Tarzan is quite popular all over the world 🤔. I was clearly wrong.

[@Annie-gq8df]

Tarzan is very popular in the US. I’m very surprised they don’t know what it is

[@anagi5561]

@@Annie-gq8df maybe they didnt considered it as children story...? i guess? :D

[@Ahjusshi_Brown]

Not the crying break, and why did you guys make me cry too 😭😭😭

[@ellam464]

I recommend the "Dalbang Bts Drama" episodes 73-76!! They try acting and directing as they shoot a drama/skit. (Dalbang is just Dallyeora (run in korean) + Bangtan (bts in korean)

[@peppi7]

I’m so excited to watch this!! Thank you for the reaction!

[@angelaseptibrigita8584]

Run BTS episode 152 and 153 is so much fun to watch, you'll get to see their vocal ability as well 🥰🥰

[@hobieyuto7516]

First time i cried and laughing at the same time when she brought up red riding hood Big mood ever

[@sabi4657]

Hi guyssss love your reactions, Bts did a special collaboration for run bts with T1 (professional team of gamers in Korea) and it's episodes 114 and 115 There are also other run bts with school concept that are soo funny, eps 112 and 113

[@ot7forlife863]

yess.. it's actually called "manhwa" when it's made in korea, and "manga" when in japan..

[@anagi5561]

31:30 if you guys are thinking why BTS are seems used into drawings or creating story telling activities like this...well maybe because at some of their contents, sample like their Summer or Winter Packages videos, they had their own activities like creating a drawing diaries about their activity for that day, or InTheSoop they been given freedom to have a time to create their own paintings... what iam saying is, BigHit or Hybe always makes sure their artists creativities are not just limited in music creations... and i always love them when they are showing their different sides of these talents... :)

[@TapMu5ic]

Yayy another bts video from you guys💜 just recently joined your patreon and excited for Bon voyage + can't wait to see what other content/bts series you will be reacting to 😊 Their documentary series "Burn The Stage", then "Bring The Soul" and "Break The Silence" would be something interesting and different to react to alongside Run BTS and the Bon Voyage series. The documentaries focus more on the serious side of their job and it's nice the hear their thoughts in them, learn about their personal struggles and growth

[@ayannasuresh8012]

Loved the reacting, it was very entertaining to watch!! If you guys take suggestions, you should check out RUN BTS EP151 and EP152. Its full of bts singing beautifully and them laughing and just overall good vibes all the way through, highly recommed :)

[@annbf5938]

Hello guys, I recommend you ep. 133, 134 and 135 ep. 136 and 137 ep. 114 and 115. Videogames with T1 and ep. 30 and 31, these are one of the most iconic episodes, they are hilarious. love your reaction ♥️

[@anagi5561]

49:44 FUN FACTS: did you know that Suga has segment on his VLives called "DJ Suga's Honey FM 06.13" which he actually act as Radio DJ... he also did this kind of activity-story telling in that segment 😊😊😊💜💜💜bein radio announcer was one of Suga's dreams and well its suit his voice too anyway

[@Spiddledeez_505]

✨You guys should consider reacting to ‘The Rise Of Bangtan’ It’s a BTS documentary on KZbin. It shows you their entire story beginning to end.🙃 I’m sure alot of people would love to see it.✨ Ps. It’s my favourite documentary I’ve ever seen.

[@eatjinnie47]

And it doesn't get copyright strike so you don't have to worry about that and pls include the deleted scenes and bonus

[@isha0616]

Yes please. You can also so multiple chapters at a time to make it longer.

[@ibreathed1029]

YESSSS!!!

[@iseeu3862]

Maybe two at a time...with bonus contents of that episode...so that they could process it better..

[@isha0616]

@@iseeu3862 yes.

[@nathalykim1263]

the single strand is my favorite because it has a lesson that we should learn from a young age, but it's never in children's stories, which is accepting yourself and loving yourself (very bts like of jin, lol)

[@Dizzyboot613]

No ide what the Matchstick story was but when Steph started crying as she told it, I started crying with her lmaoo

[@doilooklikesick]

Lmao how convenient I literally just rewatched this ep, I'm so excited

[@minacruzel6387]

Suga probably said yes cause it’s Jimin. He truly had a specialty for getting what he wants especially from Suga

[@KARIAP]

"what's Tarzan". Did he really ask that? I can't believe it O.O

[@huh3808]

the matchstick girl makes me cry so much too i remember finding abt it from a cartoon when i was younger its just so sad

[@RoxsannePatel]

great reaction but also your daughter's poop-on-the-floor story got me laughing with tears it was so funny

[@kenzledenise]

Steph is ME...... literally crying when a sad story comes up....💜💜💜💜

[@khadijadija7365]

Ohh noo, you guys have never watched "Tarzan", it's one of my favorite childhood movies 😢

[@raeraeme3971]

Ooooo I'm early for once! this episode, i remember i laughed so much that left me with a headache 😂😂 Jin would be my favourite children book writer if he were one

[@seokjin_jiminie4440]

LOVE THIS! I recommend RUN BTS episode 29 (FASHION SHOWS) Episode 26 (SECRET AGENTS) They're not long, but VERY FUN 💖

[@kthnook6609]

steph: poor daughter 🥺 wes: well poor US 🤣🤣🤣

[@lizethqp2258]

you seem like the best of parents... i love it

[@jazzylike89]

Guys, when he talks about web comics, he's talking about webtoons or manwha. It's like Korean manga. This has taken over the world. I'm surprised you don't know about it. It's really cool

[@viorica-simonaburcea4357]

I'm a teacher for smoll children (3-6 yers), and they now Hansel and Gretel. Love You. from Romania💜

[@lela1002]

I've been loving all the new bts content on here and patreon but I missed your run reactions, so thank you

[@anjalimishra6152]

It's become my routine to wait for your run bts content. Love you . It feels like watching with a friend

[@lela1002]

Correct me if I'm wrong but "The Little Match Girl" is a fairytale and I don't think fairytales ALWAYS have a moral? That's more fables I think. Also it's from Hans Christian Anderson who also wrote "The Little Mermaid" (the original not the disney version). That guys seems to love really sad stories..

[@thieltan5593]

Thank you for another great BTS react.

[@everyboddysayno8837]

Awww when u cried i also felt like crying after remembering the story of the matchstick girl

[@MsSaby97]

In 2020 around the time of their 7th anniversary Suga had a radio show on vlive once a week where he invited one BTS member and together they read one childrens story (and also chatted a little). And then in the end he had all BTS members read a story together. Since it was a proper radio show there is only sound. But for the last story read they also filmed the behind the scenes and released it on KZbin: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bZDIZ52VorWEn9E And since this was filmed at the end of 2020 while Suga was recovering, this episode was probably inspired by that weekly radio show Suga had

[@zeenath6698]

Wish these were made into actual books I'd have definitely got them all 💔 (also i'd love to see u guys react to run episodes 133-135)

[@Alice-ft4ie]

Yes! This is something I would surely buy. So cute

[@elialan]

I knew all of the stories they talked about and i’m from Turkey

[@marissa1341]

I feel that you guys might like the guys putting concepts together and fleshing out the characters for BT21. It's their line friends and there's a cartoon for it. It's on the BT21 channel. Go right to the beginning of them putting the characters together 💜💜

[@seliyoon]

When Yoongi was reading Peupeu's story I actually started tearing up wthhh

[@itsskye003]

Let’s goo! I always love your run bts reactions 💕

[@itsskye003]

Poor Rosie just getting exposed by Wes today 🤣

[@alexis.george]

5:20 You guys are correct! I like how quick on your feet you both are 😁 South Korea has dialects depending on the region you're from! None of the BTS members are from Seoul, aka the capital city where the way of speaking is very clear and "modernized", so they all have different dialects (with certain slangs and intonations). Someone correct me on this, but only Jin and RM live somewhat closer to Seoul so they don't have as distinct of an accent. J-Hope is from Jeolla-do Province, where the dialect sounds friendly and sing-songy to foreign ears. Which is hilariously fitting for him 🤣 Meanwhile, Jimin and Jungkook are both from Busan where the stereotype for men is very masculine and confident, and you will hear these two speak like that unconsciously or as a joke! (You can hear their Busan accents here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/p5iQqqGXqMZqmNk ). As for V and Suga, they're both from Daegu, which is (probably incorrectly) dubbed as "the hood of South Korea" - although it IS true that these two are the ones who are the most street-smart, and also the ones who started out very poor (all of them were honestly). Daegu men are stereotypically very straight-forward and abrasive, and it manifests in how savage these two can be at times (Savage Taehyung here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/lXe5e3h9j5V1qsk) 😎 Lastly: soulmates-Vmin playing around with their accents and reminiscing on their early school days: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hZ7FdXZmiKqIbrM 💜

[@MarinaEariel]

You're right, the cities where RM and Jin came from are near Seoul. I read Ilsan (RM's city) is almost a "dorm city" for Seoul because most of their citizens work there

[@alexis.george]

@@MarinaEariel Oh wow, I didn't know that. Thanks for adding!

[@ibelieveinyourgalaxy]

Jin has a Chungcheong do accent, it’s most noticeable when he’s playing about, for example when with Jungkook and it’s at the end of his words. He has it because of his parents.

[@alexis.george]

@@ibelieveinyourgalaxy I've never noticed it! I might have to look for compilations now LOL Thanks for letting me know!!

[@iamray3]

Omg this episode is so funny😂😂😂 i can't. Thanks for the reaction guys💜

[@lottie7628]

If u watch In the Soop season 1, you can see Jungkook’s amazing paintings. He’s so good at drawing/painting.

[@aparnay6391]

The little match girl is a ridiculously sad story, I rmbr sobbing reading it as a child. Theres the little girl and she keeps lighting a match to keep herself warm in the cold and every time she lights a match she sees a happy family, and then she runs out of matches and freezes to death. Im pretty sure the moral is something like "Don't ever take the things you have for granted. Things like food, shelter, and family that love you". Its a fucking tragic story, Stephanie crying about it is such a MOOD.

[@yoonjimin9227]

To answer your question about webcomics, yes webcomics are VERY popular in Korea. Some of them have turned into really popular K-dramas these days. These webcomics usually come from online platforms such as Webtoon who have a lot of Korean webcomics

[@soapyroz4471]

At 32:27 yeah comics are big in Korea. Like how in Japan theirs are called manga while in Korea they’re called manhwa (like a manga but it’s from Korea) or webcomics (they’re read vertically/scrolling unlike a manga where it’s style is page by page like a book). Idk if that made sense it’s prolly easier to just search manga vs manhwa vs web comics xD.

[@Ahjusshi_Brown]

Wait….we’re not abt to slip right past that. Are you telling me that neither of you know the movie TARZAN??? AND THE YODEL THING HE DOES WHILE SWINGING IN TREES?? 🤣🤣

[@eatjinnie47]

Please continue with your run bts reactions on KZbin i loveee them!! And you guys are adorable

[@pihlaaurora9009]

Oh little match girl is so sad I cried when we first read it in class I was probably 12 years old... And I am from Finland and many of those stories are familiar to me 💜

[@cokeandcheese.6617]

32:10 webcomics are actually huge in korea. and unlike manga, they are fully colored and are called "manhwa"

[@taes]

Bts just announced their new album in 10th june yayy🥳🥳🥳🥳

[@케이크러브-z6h]

LOL Suga had no choice but to say yes because it was Jimin who had asked. He spoiled Jimin the most in the group 😂

[@jiminjungkookmin]

I'd say Jungkook does as much, possibly even more

[@tinanikolova2320]

They do have things like manga, but it’s called manhwa. The difference is manhwas are colored and mostly based on web novels. There’s actually a manhwa that was adapted into an anime!

[@bb6nabi]

48:30 AHH It's easy because yoongi can't say no to park jimin The guy likes to tease jimin but always chooses him first no matter what and I really like how yoongi reads the stories 🥺💜💜💜

[@seliyoon]

Steph made me cry and laugh at the same time

[@usagi009]

Thanks Steph and Wes for great reactions ☺️

[@heyjuls13]

Run BTS this episode is really fun, we can see the members write their imagination, anyway I've read the story of the little match girl. One of the messages we can take is to always be sensitive to the environment. When we feel that person needs help, we must immediately help him. There is still another message, "The little match girl" is a good story, you guys try to read it 😂👍

[@nataliacordovalopez8836]

Omg can’t wait to watch this later, I’m gonna prepare all my snacks!!!💜💜

[@lizethqp2258]

steph crying about the match girl is MEEE... you make cry while i was laughing like what? hahaha i dont even remember the story and the fact she died AHHH omg

[@dabyduran9039]

I think Webcomics or Webtoons in korea are stories only available to read online. (Manga are stories made in japan and Manhwa are stories made in south korea)

[@mlnchlycherry4582]

There's another boy group from BTS's company. They're called Enhypen and they have a similar show called, En-o'clock. On episodes 22-23 they did a taekwando episode and on episodes 32-33 they did a real life among us episode. All of them are really young tho, the eldest is a 2001 liner and the youngest is 2005