Why SUGA Went Hiking in Switzerland During Tour⛰️ | SUGA’s VLOG

What happened

BTS's SUGA hiked 29 kilometers in the Swiss village of Vals during a break on tour. Posted on BANGTANTV under his VLOG series, the roughly four-hour hike included a free gondola ride, an off-trail scramble, and a chance encounter with a cow before reaching a mountain lake for a sandwich lunch.

Why Koreans care

SUGA's joking line that the view looks like a "컴퓨터 배경 화면" (keompyuteo baegyeong hwamyeon, computer desktop wallpaper) is a specific reference: that phrase is old-school Korean shorthand for scenery so picturesque it looks unreal, rooted in the iconic default Windows XP wallpaper (a green-hills photo Korean internet culture treats as the visual cliché for "too perfect to be real"). His awkward back-and-forth over whether saying it makes him sound like an "아저씨" (ajeossi, middle-aged man) is a self-deprecating joke about feeling himself age, not idle rambling. His remark that they were "too used to thinking only of Korean 등산로" (deungsanno, hiking trails) also carries weight beyond scenery talk: hiking is one of Korea's most popular, heavily infrastructure-supported pastimes, with trails typically fitted with stairs, ropes, and signage, so an unmarked, overgrown Alpine path was a genuine shock for them.

In the Korean comments

One fandom comment singles out his offstage conduct rather than the hike itself: "A mindset of living healthily and putting it into practice! Not getting arrogant or full of himself despite becoming famous! The basic consideration of not drawing special attention at the airport and hurrying inside out of thought for others! Thank you for being in BTS, Yoongi." A second fandom comment ties the footage directly to personal comfort, quoting the wallpaper line back: "Watching him wash his face with water flowing down the mountain, gaze at scenery like a computer wallpaper, and keep walking without tiring... just seeing Yoongi enjoy life this freely gives me real comfort." As a minority pattern, several top comments aren't in Korean at all but in English, Turkish, and Arabic — one commenter identifies as a longtime fan from Yemen — showing the top comment section skews as much international as domestic.

What the words mean

A foreign viewer would likely read SUGA's rambling about calling the view a "컴퓨터 배경 화면" (keompyuteo baegyeong hwamyeon, computer wallpaper) as throwaway chit-chat, missing that it's a specific, dated Korean shorthand for scenery so picturesque it looks fake — and that his hesitation over whether the phrase makes him sound like an "아저씨" (ajeossi, middle-aged man) is a self-deprecating joke about getting older, not a genuine aside about computers.