--- title: BTS's Jung Kook's Power Walk Could Be Your New Favorite Meme description: The youngest member of K-pop group BTS has a new viral meme, thanks to his appearance on the MAMA stage last week. canonical: https://time.com/5482958/jungkook-walk-meme/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-12-18T18:35:22.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:56:31.113Z og:title: BTS's Jung Kook's Power Walk Could Be Your New Favorite Meme og:description: The K-pop star set the internet alight with his power strut and launched a meme og:url: https://time.com/5482958/jungkook-walk-meme/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5b8a92258be36bdc/698941cfb21a9c7e714ffbe2/bts-mama-hong-kong.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4000 og:image:height: 2250 og:image:alt: 2018 Mnet Asian Music Awards in Hong Kong og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: BTS's Jung Kook's Power Walk Could Be Your New Favorite Meme twitter:description: The K-pop star set the internet alight with his power strut and launched a meme twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5b8a92258be36bdc/698941cfb21a9c7e714ffbe2/bts-mama-hong-kong.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # BTS's Jung Kook's Runway Walk Is Your New Favorite Power Entrance Meme > Sponsored content. 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V, Suga, Jin, JungKook, Jimin, J-Hope and RM of BTS attend the 2018 Mnet Music Awards in Hong Kong at AsiaWorld–Expo on December 14, 2018 in Hong Kong, Hong Kong.Anthony Kwan—Getty Images  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Dec 18, 2018 6:35 PM UTC Prepare to add a new meme to your internet repertoire, starring BTS’s Jung Kook strutting fearlessly on a stage. It all went down at last week’s Mnet Asian Music Awards in Hong Kong. Known as “MAMA,” the awards event featured and honored some of Asia’s biggest stars, including [the K-pop sensation BTS](http://time.com/collection-post/5414052/bts-next-generation-leaders/), who took home [big prizes](http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20181216000247) for Artist and Album of the Year. But Jung Kook, who is the [youngest member](http://time.com/collection-post/5418827/bts-members/) of the seven-man group, made a particular impression during the opening sequence of their performance of “Airplane Pt. 2,” a Latin-inflected pop-meets-rap song from their chart-topping 2018 album _Love Yourself: Tear_. Fans reworked footage of Jung Kook’s entrance power walk into a composite video set to Beyonce’s “Partition” — and a meme was born. Fans are now comparing his power walk to those moments when you are feeling yourself most — and bowing down to Jung Kook’s flawless, Beyoncé-level attitude. This isn’t the first time Jung Kook or his bandmates RM, Suga, J-Hope, Jin, Jimin and V have set the internet alight with just a few moves. They [regularly go viral](http://time.com/5472018/person-of-the-year-poll-winner/) on social media following performances or appearances, from [their speech](http://time.com/5405422/bts-k-pop-united-nations-address/) at the U.N. General Assembly this fall to their slots on [late-night talk shows](http://time.com/5406839/bts-on-jimmy-fallon/) when they were in the U.S. on a sold-out tour this fall. > [](https://twitter.com/cultkoo/status/1073724589270810624) > [](https://twitter.com/ultems/status/1074144391441321990) > [](https://twitter.com/gcfseesawjk/status/1074198810950332416) > [](https://twitter.com/jkactivities/status/1073591347167313920) > [](https://twitter.com/btschartdata/status/1074062686244229120) > [](https://twitter.com/gaIorejmn/status/1074016895752433666) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5482958/jungkook-walk-meme/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5482958/jungkook-walk-meme/"},"headline":"BTS's Jung Kook's Runway Walk Is Your New Favorite Power Entrance Meme","datePublished":"2018-12-18T18:35:22.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:56:31.113Z","description":"The youngest member of K-pop group BTS has a new viral meme, thanks to his appearance on the MAMA stage last week.","url":"https://time.com/5482958/jungkook-walk-meme/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Music","viral","bts"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5b8a92258be36bdc/698941cfb21a9c7e714ffbe2/bts-mama-hong-kong.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5b8a92258be36bdc/698941cfb21a9c7e714ffbe2/bts-mama-hong-kong.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"2018 Mnet Asian Music Awards in Hong Kong","caption":"2018 Mnet Asian Music Awards in Hong Kong","creditText":"Anthony Kwan—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5482958/jungkook-walk-meme/","name":"BTS's Jung Kook's Runway Walk Is Your New Favorite Power Entrance Meme"}}]}] ```