‘7Fates: Chakho’, the webtoon featuring members of the chart-topping band BTS, released today. 

The first part of the urban fantasy story is now available on Naver Webtoon, an online platform for web-based comics run by South Korea’s top portal operator, while the web novel version has been released simultaneously on Wattpad.

The webtoon is by HYPE, an agency that handles several K-pop groups, including BTS. Others stories featuring groups such as TXT and ENHYPEN, produced by HYPE, will also release in the future. 

The plot of 7Fates: Chakho is inspired by ‘Chakhogapsa’, a Korean folklore about tigers and bears. 

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HYBE’s General Manager Shawn Hwangbo revealed that the story has been “re-created by reinterpreting the stories of bears and Beom (tiger) in mythology and the traditional Korean Beom tales with HYBE’s own imagination,” according to a report by HITC.

The Chakho official soundtrack will be produced by BTS member and rapper SUGA and vocals will be by Jungkook. 

According to BTS Jin, the story of ‘7Fates Chakho’ starts from the city of Sin-si, which is dangerous and corrupt. The plot takes a turn when monsters called ‘Beom’ (bearing the characteristics of tigers) come to the city to hunt humans.

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About the story, Suga said, ‘Tigers (beom) generally appear as divine animals, mystical creatures that defeat evil spirits, but the story of ‘Chakho’ that takes place in a corrupt city in the near future will deal with various exploits of beom.”

The BTS members shared their characters’ storyline in an interview: 

Jungkook plays the character of Zeha, who is a half-human and half tiger, born between a human and a beom.

Jooan, V’s character falls in love with a beom. His is is forbidden love story. 

Jimin’s character Haru is not a human, the ‘Filter’ crooner revealed. Haru has been a rock that guarded the gate of the world against Beom then he became human.

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According to J-hope, his character Hosu was kidnapped by a beom. “In Order to survive in their den, he has to do something terrible,” he said.

RM’s character is a crime expert who has only lived in the back alleys of the city.

Suga’s character Cein was almost eaten by a beom, but he survived.

Jin’s character Hwan used to be an ordinary archer. When he loses his entire family to a beom, he becomes a beom (tiger) hunter.

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The official Webtoon site describes the story in the following way: In the corrupt city of Sin-si, Zeha suddenly wakes up in a hospital, unable to recall anything that happened after speaking with a mysterious man one night. He soon learns that strange beings called beom are wreaking havoc on the city. As destiny brings seven boys together, will they succeed in ending this fight, once and for all? Let the hunting begin!