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• full name: Min Yoongi
  
• stage name: Suga (stylized: SUGA)
  
  • "Suga" is a mashup of his basketball position as a student (shooting guard).
• born: March 9th, 1993 (26 years old)
• birthplace: Daegu, Korea
• one of the seven members of BTS
  • role: songwriter, rapper, mixer/arranger (and he's really good at it!)
    • has written over 70 songs
  • Before joining BTS, he was an underground rapper who went by the name Gloss.
    • he had another alias called "Agust D" (standing for "Daegu Town" (DT) + "suga" spelled backwards.)
    • He produced his first solo titled Agust D ... under this alias.
  • trained with fellow members J-Hope and RM for three years before their debut in 2013
• has a net worth of about #10 million
• started writing song lyrics at 13 years old
• plays piano
• makes hip-hop and R&B music
• Like the rest of BTS, he can speak both Japanese and Korean
• is seen as the sleepy "savage" of BTS (often insults his bandmembers, but in a joking way)
  • they've been together since 2013, so they're really close
• fans sometimes call him "Lil Meow-Meow" because he often reminds them of a cat (being lazy and liking to sleep)
• sometimes, he's cranky, other times he acts cute
  • this might be the reason why fans are worried for him (he might have bipolar disorder because of having to keep up these two personalities)
• He's suffered from depression and social phobia before, but with his bandmates and their fanbase, he's getting better
• He's talked about issues like LGBTQ+ recognition and mental health conditions
• was ranked #13 in Gallup Korea's 2017 survey for "Most Preferred Idol"
  • in 2018, he ranked as #7th place.
• in 2014, he made a promise to his fans that he'd buy his fans meat if he was successful as an artist
  • Meat's expensive in Korea, so that's why that's important
  • On his 25th birthday, four years later, he donated beef to 39 orphanages as "ARMY" (the name of the BTS fanbase).
  • the next year, he donated $100,000 in Korean currency ($88,000 in US dollars) to the a pediatric cancer foundation
  • he also sent about 330 BT21 Shooky dolls (every BTS member has a personalized plushie, in a series called BT21.)