Do we like Jimin?
Our score: 8 out of 10. Nothing harmful found, a long record of donations and a public stand against hate, but no word from him on LGBTQ+ rights either way.
Jimin was born Park Ji-min in 1995 and studied modern dance at the Busan High School of Arts. He had only about six months of training at Big Hit before debuting with BTS in 2013. From there he went from the group's dancer to a solo star with the 2023 album FACE, whose single Like Crazy topped the Billboard Hot 100.
Scandal-wise, the cupboard is bare. We found no court case, regulator action or credible allegation against him. The biggest stoush was in 2025, when a dating-rumour pile-on prompted his agency to say a past relationship had ended and to ask people to stop guessing. That was a privacy fight, not a conduct one, and he made no statement himself.
On the harm test he comes up clean. At the 2022 White House visit, he said the group was “devastated by the recent surge in hate crimes, including Asian American hate crimes.” At the 2021 UN event, BTS talked up climate dread and said all seven members had been vaccinated, though those words came from J-Hope, not Jimin. Honest gap: we found nothing from him on LGBTQ+ or trans rights, for or against, and no run of dodgy collaborators.
The recent chapter is a big one. BTS came back in 2026 with the album ARIRANG and a huge world tour. At the opening show he told the crowd they had tried “many new things in various ways” and urged fans to enjoy it. Plenty of fan chatter followed, but nothing from reputable outlets that counts against him.
The good stuff is real. In 2020 he gave 100 million won to a Jeonnam education foundation for student scholarships, delivered by his father. When he finished his military service in June 2025 he thanked fans for waiting and admitted the army was not an easy place. That is a bloke being straight about it, not a PR line.
So the verdict: we would back him. He passes the harm test, he's a standout on the good-person test, and the only thing keeping him off a 9 or 10 is that we would love to hear him say something about LGBTQ+ people. The record is thin there, not bad.