BTS member Jungkook pulled in a staggering 6.4 million viewers on Nov. 24 with a livestream that was about as low-key as it gets: he cooked dinner in his home kitchen. BTS, the first Korean group to headline major U.S. stadiums and top the Billboard charts, has long commanded global attention — but Jungkook’s solo livestreams have emerged as their own phenomenon, consistently drawing massive real-time audiences across the U.S. and beyond.
The singer kicked off the stream by telling fans he was simply hungry, a casual note that contrasted sharply with the flood of viewers that followed.
Cameras rolled as he sharpened a knife, prepped ingredients, and attempted a pasta dish he’d never made before. He minced garlic, sliced green onions for infused oil, and cleaned a jumbo prawn on his own.
The sauce — a mix of olive oil, garlic, peperoncino, pepper, water, uni soy sauce, heavy cream, butter, and sugar — came together before he tossed in linguine and finished the dish with grated cheese. After tasting it, he declared it “really good.”
The final creation, a uni soy-sauce cream shrimp pasta, was topped with extra green onion and cheese. Jungkook joked that the seasoning was good enough to sell and teased his next experimental dish: a doenjang curry pasta, saying he wanted to cook something that “doesn’t already exist.”
For Jungkook, the stream reinforced a pattern. Whether he’s singing, chatting, or making late-night comfort food, his casual broadcasts routinely attract millions — a rare feat even among top global entertainers.
Previous kitchen sessions have featured dishes like “Bulgeuri,” truffle cream pasta, perilla-oil makguksu, and “rajuk,” helping turn his home-cooking experiments into must-watch moments for longtime fans and newly curious viewers discovering him outside BTS’s stadium stages.
