Nam Bo Ra's BTS V Prenatal Story Has Every ARMY Smiling

Korean actress Nam Bo Ra has a very specific prenatal care method — and after sharing it on national television, the internet cannot stop talking about it. The actress, who is currently eight months pregnant with her first child, revealed on KBS2's "Superman Returns" that she has been diligently studying BTS V's photographs throughout her pregnancy with a clear intention: she wants her baby to have his facial features.

"I got pregnant and looked at BTS V's photos a lot," Nam Bo Ra said during the episode. "'Copy-paste, and paste it right here,' that's what I'd say every time I looked." The audience — and virtually everyone who has seen the clip since — responded with the kind of warm laughter that only a perfectly honest confession can produce.

The Reveal That Went Viral

The moment unfolded after comedian Kim Jong-min, who co-hosted the episode, marveled at Nam Bo Ra's baby's ultrasound photograph. "Kongrali (the baby's nickname) already has very distinct features — looks like it takes after the mother," he observed.

Nam Bo Ra's response was immediate and cheerfully unapologetic: she had been doing her prenatal care by looking at photos of BTS's V, formally known as Kim Taehyung, and she had been doing it with intent. Kim Jong-min's follow-up — "Should I be worried you're looking at me today?" — added to the moment's charm.

The clip spread quickly through Korean social media and K-pop fan communities. BTS's ARMY fandom, known for its passionate engagement with any and all content featuring their favorites, embraced the story with characteristic warmth. The consensus: of all the prenatal care strategies one could choose, looking at Kim Taehyung photographs is among the more understandable.

Who Is Nam Bo Ra?

To international audiences, Nam Bo Ra may be less familiar than her domestic profile suggests. In Korea, she is known not only for her acting career but as the eldest daughter of a family that became nationally famous for its extraordinary size — 13 siblings. The Nam family's large, chaotic, warmly affectionate household has been the subject of television content for years, and Nam Bo Ra has navigated the dual role of public figure and eldest sibling with considerable grace.

Her acting credits include appearances across Korean dramas and films, and she has maintained a consistent presence in Korean entertainment across different formats. Her announcement of her first pregnancy in late 2025 was warmly received by fans who had followed her journey, including her marriage to her husband.

She is due in June 2026, and "Kongrali" — the name her team and family have been using for the baby during the pregnancy — is apparently already living up to its mother's prenatal aspirations. The ultrasound, according to Kim Jong-min, shows a baby with unusually clear, distinct facial features for this stage of development.

Korea's "Taegyo" Culture

The concept behind Nam Bo Ra's revelation is rooted in Korean 태교 (taegyo) — the traditional belief that a pregnant mother's thoughts, experiences, and environment can influence her child's development, personality, and even appearance. Taegyo practices range from listening to classical music and reading literature to surrounding oneself with beautiful art.

In contemporary Korean culture, taegyo has taken on a distinctly pop cultural dimension. "Look at beautiful celebrities to help your baby's appearance" has become a lighthearted but persistent piece of folk wisdom, half-joking and half-earnest. The logic — that exposure to beauty during pregnancy might, somehow, transfer beauty to the child — is scientifically unsupported, but the emotional truth it represents (a mother wanting everything beautiful for her child) resonates deeply.

BTS V has become one of the most frequently cited individuals in this particular taegyo tradition. His face — characterized by deep-set, expressive eyes, high cheekbones, and a distinctive jawline — is often referenced in Korean beauty conversations as an ideal, particularly for the kind of features that register as striking in ultrasound photographs.

BTS V: Why His Name Keeps Coming Up

Kim Taehyung (stage name V) is the BTS member who, perhaps more than any other, has become embedded in Korean popular culture's visual vocabulary. Within BTS, he is known for the unusual depth of his facial features, his ability to transform dramatically between warm casual looks and intense stage personas, and a natural photogenic quality that has made him one of the most photographed people in Korea over the past decade.

He is currently fulfilling South Korea's mandatory military service requirement — as are other BTS members — a period fans are tracking carefully while supporting each member's individual activities. In his absence, his cultural presence has remained constant: his photographs continue to circulate, his music continues to be discovered by new listeners, and apparently, mothers-to-be continue to find his face a comforting prenatal companion.

The Bigger Story: K-Celebrity Taegyo

Nam Bo Ra's confession fits into a broader, genuinely charming trend in Korean celebrity culture. Many Korean celebrities and public figures have shared their own taegyo practices over the years — the things they listened to, watched, or surrounded themselves with during pregnancy. These revelations almost always generate warm public response, because they offer a glimpse into the private emotional life of someone during one of life's most transformative experiences.

When a celebrity chooses another celebrity for this purpose, the story gains an additional layer: it's a fan moment made public, an admission that even people at the center of the entertainment industry are, at the end of the day, fans themselves. Nam Bo Ra's willingness to share this with such cheerful honesty is precisely what made the clip spread: it's funny, sweet, and human in the best way.

Kongrali is due in June. Whether the baby arrives with V-adjacent facial features or simply takes after a mother who is, by all accounts, quite beautiful herself, the story has already secured its place in 2026's most heartwarming K-entertainment moments. ARMY, for their part, seems collectively delighted by the entire situation.