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Who is Bang PD (Bang Si Hyuk)? How to Summarize the Relationship between Bang PD and BTS?

Who is Bang PD (Bang Si Hyuk)? How to Summarize the Relationship between Bang PD and BTS?
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In this article, we will talk about who is Bang PD (Bang Si-Hyuk) and a brief summary of his relationship with BTS.

Bang Si-Hyuk , aka Bang PD is  the CEO of Big Hit Entertainment, or with the latest name of that company, HYBE. In other words, he is the boss of BTS’s agency. When we look at the first part of the career of Bang PD , who was born in 1972 , we see that he was a person who came from within music. Bang PD was a very bright student in his high school years. He was torn between studying law at college and starting a career in music . While his grandfather and his high school teachers were pushing him to study law in college, Bang PD ‘s mother supported her son in his music career. Thus, Bang PD started  studying at Seoul National University Department of Aesthetics. Simultaneously, he also makes his debut as a songwriter and composer at an early age while still pursuing his college education [ Therefore, they say, like Bang PD, RM also stayed between a professional career and music, and selected music. This creates a special bond between RM and Bang PD].

Bang PD met Park Jin Young in the 1990s and started doing joint business. Later, in 1997, when Park Jin Young founded the company called JYPE (later renamed JYP Entertainment), Bang PD started working with the company in composition, arrangement and production. Park Jin Young and Bang PD’s first big business was with the G.O.D’s debut album. Park Jin Young contributed as main producer and songwriter, while Bang PD took over the instruments and music parts. Bang PD was also responsible for arranging the band’s hits “Once Candle” and “Road”. That’s why Bang PD and Park Jin Young were nicknamed “Hit Maker” or the hit maker. Thus, in the early 2000s, Bang Si-Hyuk’s nickname was “Hitman Bang (Bang PD-nim)”. Bang PD, who left JYP Entertainment and founded his own company Big Hit Entertainment in 2005, has not been cut off from the music production business. For example, in BTS’s legendary 2016 Wings album, he contributed to the lyrics of 6 songs.

Now we can return to our main subject. I guess it wouldn’t be wrong to say that Bang PD ‘s greatest job is to discover BTS members one by one and then bring together such a harmonious team and bring them from their trainee days to this day. When BTS debuted, the oldest member was Jin at 21 years old, while the youngest member Jungkook was only 15 . This is why Bang PD is often given the title “ BTS’s Father” . Bang PD does not like this title and offers two very good reasons for this:

Reason number one : “Artists cannot be created by someone else. When someone calls me BTS’s father, then BTS is a product and I am a producer of them. This idea goes against my philosophy of life. I definitely won’t feel comfortable with this phrase ”

Second reason: “When you say BTS’s father, you put me in the position of an old father. I am a single person yet. You will close my romantic fortune by labeling it that way!”.

The first rationale is very elegant, the second one makes you smile. Once or twice a year, the news of Bang PD with a beautiful girlfriend makes the agenda, then they are forgotten. He is still single.

Bang PD says that he feels like a National Team Coach rather than a father, especially on tours. But what he shows a total paternal sensitivity is the hate and attacks on BTS members. He has a reflex that is particularly sensitive to cyber-bullying and does not hesitate to take every precaution to protect his artists.

There is an issue that Bang PD is criticized. It is also the question of whether or not he overworked the BTS members. Sometimes this issue can be on the agenda seriously. For example, when Suga and V could not go on stage because they were hospitalized at their Japanese tour in Kobe in 2015 (it was mentioned before that V had been forced to perform sickly), it came under heavy criticism from ARMY.  It always seemed to me that the BTS dance choreographies of that period required an inhuman level of performance. Overall, BTS ‘choreographies are still considered the most challenging of the market, both in terms of complexity and physical burden. As you can see, Bang PD continued to push the BTS members, in line with the American saying “wha doesn’t kill you makes you stronger”. BTS members somehow managed to survive (apart from the occasional injuries). Mentally they always have marine-forces level of motivation. This process really went on a very fine balance, I guess it would not be wrong to say that it is still going. ILook at that video below in where V being forced on the stage until his “knees” gave off. Let’s put this point to an end here to discuss this issue in more depth in another article.

Bang PD maybe pushed BTS members hard to achieve excellence; However, we can say that the company did not refrain from paying BTS members their rights during the public offering of the company. On the opening day, the share rate for each BTS member was equivalent to $ 8 to 10 million. This move shows that Bang PD does not only see BTS as a group he found and raised, but now sees them as serious corporate partners.

So, I would like to emphasize that Bang PD gave all the responsibility of production of latest BTS album , BE , from concept design to cover design, from musical background to MV shooting.  One cannot help but wonder if he is preparing them as new “Hitman“s of the future.

BTS’s tweet-string about Kobe concert in 2015 (The content is summarized in our article):

https://twitter.com/BTS_ARMY_INT/status/1039946297581686787?s=20

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