RM is always praised for his genius brain and he always proves his cleverness and ingenuity through interviews. RM's recent interview with El País - a famous Spanish newspaper is an example of this question.

He overcame every complicated and sensitive answer with a straightforward yet delicate touch. ARMYs seem very proud and complimented RM's answers in this interview.

In particular, it includes a part of western stereotypes about кσяєα that has been neatly handled by RM:

RM recently had an interview with El País, one of the most notable media in the Hispanic world. He appeared as a solo artist and promoted his album - Indigo.

The interview consisted of insightful questions to the BTS leader, and Spanish-speaking fans were generous enough to share it with others by providing English translations. One specific part of the interview grabbed the most attention, and it is where RM boldly нιт back at the West’s perception of South кσяєα and K-Pop in general.

While talking about his experience as a trainee and then a successful figure in the K-Pop industry, RM was asked if straining hard work and an aim for picture perfection is one of the traits of кσяєαn culture. 

When the interviewer asked him that: "This worship of youth, of perfection, of overstraining in K-Pop…Are these кσяєαn cultural traits?", he gave an exact question to expresss his thought.

To this, RM answered that the West lacks the subjective perspective to understand why certain countries like South кσяєα put so much emphasis on hard work. He explained, “кσяєα is a country that has been invaded, devastated, torn into two. Just seventy years ago, there was nothing.” RM continued recalling the past and pointed out how кσяєα was dependent on aid from the IMF and the UN just a few decades ago. But the country’s global status quo shifted quickly, and now the “world is looking at кσяєα.”

This swift change in fortune didn’t happen magically. RM pointed out that it directly resulted from “people..working f*cking hard to improve themselves.” The desperation to build back a country that was left with nothing is not easy to understand for cultures who have not experienced it first-hand. That is why “people in the West…,” he noted, “…just don’t get it.”

RM said: "You are in ̾f̾r̾a̾n̾c̾e ̾ or the UK, countries that have been colonizing others for centuries, and you come to me with, ‘Oh God, you put so much pressure on yourselves. Life in кσяєα is so stressful. ‘ Well, yes. That’s how you get things done."

This is what, according to RM, gives K-Pop its charm too. Though he was honest to admit that “everything that happens too fast and too intensely has side effects,” he doesn’t agree with the way K-Pop is often portrayed as a manufactured phenomenon. In the following question, the interviewer asked him what he considers the biggest prejudice about K-Pop. He answered, “That it’s prefabricated.” In another part of the interview, he also directly called out how even a partial admission about the K-Pop system’s hardships often gets twisted and exaggerated into some dark conspiracy theories.

Then, RM was asked: "Does the system dehumanize?" and he replied: "My company doesn’t like how I answer this question, because I admit it in part, and then the journalists throw up their hands saying, “It’s a ḧöŕŕïḅŀệ system, it destroys young people!”

Though the BTS leader has always been eloquent in his interview, he was unprecedentedly unfiltered in this one. This new level of openness and honesty has taken fans aback so much that this interview has set social media abuzz with conversations around it.