BT21 Mug: Van

Line Friends are featured characters, invented by South Korean designer Kang Byeong Mok, based on the stickers from diverse applications of the South Korean internet search giant Naver Corporation and the Japanese messaging app Line.

BT21 is the first presentation from FRIENDS CREATORS, a project formed to create new characters for the Line Friends series. South Korean boy group BTS was the first artist of this project and the main theme of the project is to show the connection between BTS and Line Friends in terms of popularity in the world.

Van is Tata’s AI robot. Half of his body is gray with an “X” eye, and the other half is white with an “O” eye. He is BT21’s protector and was created by RM to represent BTS’ fandom, A.R.M.Y.