Two of the seven were born in Busan: Jimin and Jungkook. Two more were born in Daegu: Suga and V. The remaining three were born in three different cities. The table below has all seven, and then the part that is usually left out: what “from” is actually recording.
Every figure here is a place of birth, not a hometown. Wikidata records place of birth, which is not the same thing as where somebody is from. A hospital city is often recorded instead of the town a person grew up in. Everything below says "born in" and never "hometown", and where the two are known to differ, fans are usually right and the database is usually the one recording a hospital.
| Member | Born name | Born in | Also born there |
|---|---|---|---|
| RM | Kim Nam-joon | Goyang | 5 |
| Jin | Kim Seok-jin | Gwacheon | — |
| Suga | Min Yoon-gi | Daegu | 3 |
| J-Hope | Jung Ho-seok | Gwangju | 4 |
| Jimin | Park Ji-min | Busan | 8 |
| V | Kim Tae-hyung | Daegu | 3 |
| Jungkook | Jeon Jung-kook | Busan | 8 |
“Also born there” counts the other names, out of the 123 most-read Korean names we track, that Wikidata places in the same city. It is a count of people we happen to hold, not a count of everyone from that city.
Jimin and Jungkook were born in Busan. Wikidata places 7 other names from our list of 123 in Busan too.
Suga and V were born in Daegu. Wikidata places 2 other names from our list of 123 in Daegu too.
RM was born in Goyang. Wikidata places 5 other names from our list of 123 in Goyang too.
Jin was born in Gwacheon.
J-Hope was born in Gwangju. Wikidata places 4 other names from our list of 123 in Gwangju too.
Out of the 123 most-read Korean names we could place on a map. Not a ranking of anything — just the other names our data puts in the same city.
Goyang (with RM): Lee Jun-ho, Doh Kyung-soo, Seunghan, JAY B, Lee Sung-kyoung
Daegu (with Suga): V, Song Hye-kyo, Son Ye-jin
Gwangju (with J-Hope): Bae Suzy, Park Shin-hye, Seungri, Goo Hara
Busan (with Jimin): Jungkook, Nam Joo-hyuk, Gong Yoo, Hwang Min-hyun, Sulli, Gang Dong-won, Lee Joon-gi, Ok Taec-yeon
Daegu (with V): Song Hye-kyo, Son Ye-jin, Suga
Busan (with Jungkook): Nam Joo-hyuk, Gong Yoo, Hwang Min-hyun, Jimin, Sulli, Gang Dong-won, Lee Joon-gi, Ok Taec-yeon
People searching this question type “from”, and we understand what they mean. But the only record we can check is Wikidata’s place of birth field, and a place of birth is frequently the city with the hospital, not the town somebody grew up in. Where fans and a database disagree about a member’s hometown, the fans are usually right and the database is usually recording a delivery room.
So read this page as: this is where the birth was registered. It is a fact about a record, not a claim about who anybody is or where they belong. We would rather hand you a narrower true thing than a wider one we cannot stand behind.
Fourteen seconds, read aloud: two of the seven were born in Busan and two in Daegu. Wikidata records a place of birth, which is not the same thing as a hometown, and a hospital city is often recorded instead of the town a person grew up in. Free to repost with the address on it.
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Jimin and Jungkook were born in Busan, Suga and V in Daegu, and not one of the seven in Seoul. Busan gave nine of the 123 most-read Korean stars, Daegu four, Seoul fifty.
22 August 2026
Place of birth (P19) from Wikidata for each of the seven members, matched by stage name and by born name, then placed with the city's coordinates (P625). Reading figures alongside are lookups on four Southeast Asian Wikipedia editions, reads: August 2025 to July 2026, human traffic only, per million reads of each edition. The questions this page answers are not invented: they are the seventeen queries about BTS birthplaces that brought people to this site in the four weeks to 2026-08-26.
Place of birth is not a hometown, and this page never calls it one. A hospital city is often recorded instead of the town a person grew up in, so where fans and Wikidata disagree, this page is showing you the record and not the life. Our reading figures measure curiosity on Southeast Asian Wikipedias only — they say nothing about popularity in Korea, and nothing about the cities themselves. Counts of "who else came from here" are limited to the 123 most-read Korean names we could place, so they are a sample of our own data and not a census of any city.