Just over a year ago, LEGO announced that the next Ideas set would be dancing to the beat of Korean Popular Music (K-pop for short) and be based on the iconic boyband, BTS. The music video of their song Dynamite was submitted by fan designer Josh Bretz (@JBBrickFanatic) and Jacob Twerski (@BangtanBricks) and the rest is history. Though many AFOLs reacted to the BTS set news with the question, “Who!?”, a large army of K-pop fans celebrated around the world. With the release of LEGO Ideas 21339 BTS Dynamite, we wanted to explore the set from the perspective of both an AFOL and an ARMY (a member of the BTS fandom). the original submission by josh and jacob was one of the fastest sets to reach 10,000 votes. But before we talk about the set itself, join us for a brief history of K-pop, Korean culture, and the global phenomenon that...
