Happy 29th Birthday Jung Kook! 💜 BTS Celebrates Golden Maknae Day

HAPPY JK DAYYY 🐰🎂💜 Jung Kook turns 29 today, and BTS officially kicked off September 1 with a Happy Jung Kook Day post for our forever Golden Maknae.

Featured Sep 01, 2026 11:27 AM Official BTS

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JUNG KOOOOOK. 😭🐰🎂💜

September 1 is officially here in Korea, which means one thing:

JUNG KOOK DAY.

Jeon Jung Kook celebrates his 29th birthday on September 1, 2026, and BTS’s official account marked the occasion right at midnight KST with:

“0901 Congratulations! Happy Jung Kook Day 🎂”

The post immediately brought another year of Jung Kook birthday celebrations into the BTS timeline — except this birthday feels especially different.

Because this time?

Jung Kook is celebrating during an OT7 world-tour era.

BTS are together.

ARIRANG is out.

The world tour is actively moving across stadiums.

And later today in Los Angeles, BTS begin the first of four SoFi Stadium concerts.

So Jung Kook is basically entering his birthday while BTS are preparing to take over LA together. 😭💜

And ARMY did what ARMY does every September 1: birthday projects, digital displays, cafés, support events, hashtags and celebrations began appearing around the world. Contemporary coverage lists birthday projects across countries including South Korea, Japan, the United States, China, Indonesia, Russia, Kazakhstan, Hungary and Vietnam.

There is something extra emotional about Jung Kook birthdays because ARMY has genuinely watched him grow.

The youngest member who debuted at 15.

The Golden Maknae.

The kid behind early G.C.F videos.

The singer who grew into GOLDEN.

The same Jung Kook who can command a stadium and then appear on Weverse singing casually to ARMY like the giant stage outside does not exist.

And this year he even gave ARMY a birthday-eve present before ARMY could give him one first.

More on that next. 😭👇

Happy birthday, Jung Kook.

May 29 bring him health, happiness, good music, good food, plenty of peaceful moments and another year surrounded by people he loves.

APOBANGPO. 💜