What has remained constant is my love and passion for Super Junior (going on almost 14 years), OG kpop, Jrock, and the newest addition from 2023 has been BounPrem and Thai BL.
I randomly watched a clip of Between Us and paid no mind. Then BounPrem had a cameo in Cutie Pie and my interest was piqued due to the comments. I watched Between Us first (didn't know Until We Meet Again was the first to watch) and automatically felt drawn to their chemistry. The rest is history. I went down a rabbit hole to binge watch videos of them, lives, and watch EVERYTHING they've acted in. Boun and Prem have become a part of my daily life and a safe space for me.
This man was single for the first two years of his university life.
Can you imagine how many of the students on campus wanted him carnally and gossiped about who he must be hooking up with and then at some point they see him cheerfully dragging around this loud freshman by his tie while the kid bellows about the bag of chips Win made him spill in the parking lot.
"YOU OWE ME NINE AND A HALF CHIPS, HIA."
"There were only seven, and that last one was a quarter fragment at best."
"ARE YOU QUESTIONING MY ABILITY TO TAKE CHIP INVENTORY, HIA???"
"Yeah, I am, actually."
And then trauma and therapy and they get married. Iconic.
I've been meaning to make this for a while because it's difficult in this day and age to just leap into a brand new fandom and hit the ground running. Thai BL actors have social media spread across various platforms, and some have been around for years, and the bulk of information about them is often found in tweets on the flea-infested carcass formerly known as Twitter, where few dare tread.
SO: LET'S TALK ABOUT BOUNPREM!
THE BOUN OF BOUNPREM
Boun Noppanut Guntachai | July 10, 1995
Famously, Boun was involved in the industry for seven years before he was cast in the defining role of Win in "Until We Meet Again" (2019).
Before being cast as Win, Boun had promised himself that this would be his last attempt to make a career in the industry since his single mother had been supporting him until then and he didn't want to become a burden to her.
The runaway success of "Until We Meet Again" in 2019 and 2020 launched Boun and Prem to fame in the Thai BL sphere, but Boun was still cautious about it. In those preceding seven years, he had endured a great deal of hardship from auditions that went nowhere to cameos and side roles for which he was never paid what he was owed. He also witnessed and experienced quite a bit of the dark side of the industry without any of the protections he has today, which made him very protective of younger artists under his care when he joined Studio Wabi Sabi. (Including and most importantly his imaginary couple partner, Prem.)
Boun joined Studio Wabi Sabi roughly around 2019(?) when he was approached by its CEO New Siwaj (director of "Love by Chance," "Until We Meet Again," and "We Are"). New essentially offered Boun a safe environment with guaranteed payment, and it cannot be overstated how instrumental both New and his agency/studio were in both the launch of Boun's career and the creation and survival of BounPrem as a brand.
In 2020, Boun often described himself as short-tempered and unenthusiastic about spending time with younger people, but his onscreen partnership, offscreen dynamic, and then professional relationship with Prem was instrumental in changing his attitude. As he and Prem worked more and more together, Boun told the public that he shifted his mindset because he realized that anything he did would have a direct impact on Prem's reputation and prospects, too.
Boun was born with a chronic heart condiiton:
Translation Source: "I had my annual heart check-up. The leak is still the same, 2 millimeters. There's a slight arrhythmia (irregular heart rhythm), and the same old problem with my chest bone being misshapen, causing my chest to be flat and pressing against my heart. Normally, there should be a gap between the chest and the heart, but mine is compressed. Last year, I had three episodes of chest pain. That’s the end of the report."
He updates fans regularly on his health, spends a fair amount of time in and out of the hospital for checkups, and it's widely understood by fans that while Boun is often extremely enthusiastic and energetic, he does have physical limitations due to his condition, and he does need to be cautious.
Boun is also extraordinarily thoughtful toward his fans. In the "Until We Meet Again" promotion era, he was often the last one of the cast to leave their outdoor fan gatherings, lingering to talk and take selfies until one of the staff came back to physically drag him away. More recently, he's taken to Twitter to encourage fans to organize meet-up points after events that end late in the evening so they can accompany each other home safely. (He even called out some of those meeting points onstage so fans who didn't see it on Twitter would know this was happening.)
Since joining GMMTV, Boun has become close to many artists but none more important than my other biological adult son Krist Perawat, a bond for which I am solely responsible by my super real magic of friendship powers that are not made up.
[I literally did this.]
THE PREM OF BOUNPREM
Prem Warut Chawalitrujiwong | March 8, 1998
Prem's first role was Team in "Until We Meet Again," and his charisma and comedic timing solidified him as a strong actor.
Early in life, Prem and his older brother and younger sister all trained to become professional golfers. By his teens, however, Prem wanted more than the solitary life such a sport promised, so he shifted gears to try his hand in the entertainment industry instead. (Look up his former boyband Goblin.)
Prem is more reserved than Boun off-camera, and in early interviews, Boun would sometimes express concern that Prem was hesitant to uphold his boundaries with others. While Prem was outgoing with the tight-knit "Until We Meet Again" cast during promotions, and he grew especially close to Boun over time, he tended to be quiet in interviews and depended on Boun to do most of the talking if Boun was there.
Signs of Prem's intelligence and industry savvy were clear from the start, with him asking his agency to forward Boun's headshot to the director of "Longkhong," a horror series he had been cast in before he and Boun met at the auditions for "Until We Meet Again." They filmed both series together concurrently in 2019 and got to know each other best on the set of "Longkhong."
Prem's friend group is called the "Space Gang" (you'll notice that Prem's handle on most social media platforms is @.prem_space). They were present the day Boun and Prem "met" at the Kasetsart Cultural Festival, and Boun went out of his way to befriend them once he and Prem decided to continue their partnership after "Until We Meet Again" finished.
[The Space Gang + Prem's older brother]
In 2022, Prem left his agency Starlatiz. Even though he'd been closely associated with Studio Wabi Sabi for the past three years through "Until We Meet Again" and the much-delayed "Between Us" as well as his plentiful imaginary couple work with Boun, Prem chose to continue his career as a freelancer. For many working partnerships, serious issues might have cropped up from this choice and led to the end of BounPrem, but the relationship between Prem and Boun as well as Prem and Studio Wabi Sabi's CEO New Siwaj were so strong that he navigated the transition and the path ahead brilliantly.
Since joining GMMTV in 2024, Prem has navigated yet another massive shift in his career incredibly smoothly. While he has preferred to spend his free time decompressing at home with his cat Piccolo in the past, he's made a number of good friends among the ranks of artists under GMMTV, most notably Off, who in winter of 2026 gave Prem a nudge to be a little more openly weird on main. The results have been beautiful.
[Oh look it's Krist again how weird what a coincidence.]
THE GOOD SHIP "BOUNPREM": 2019 TO 2026
Boun and Prem "met" at the Kasetsart Cultural Festival in early February of 2019. Prem was a student at the time, and they worked at separate booths: Prem with the Space Gang selling barbecue pork and Boun with the Wabi Sabi folks selling milkshakes.
The exact story is nebulous and has changed many times over the years, but to paraphrase in the loosest way possible: Prem decided Boun was an arrogant jackass who thought he was hot shit because he's gorgeous, and Boun was slightly terrified of the dudes at the barbecue pork booth who kept scowling at him. Prem apparently invented an internal narrative that the Wabi Sabi booth was stealing their customers, because obviously barbecue pork and milkshakes are natural enemies in the wild. At one point, they passed each other on their way to and from the toilet, and Prem used that barely-an-encounter to talk shit about Boun when he got back to his friends. Boun's only reliable memory of that day is that one of the Wabi Sabi crew said nice things about the barbecue pork booth, so he went over to buy some for himself. Prem saw this as a direct taunt and hated him more for it, and Boun, still confused why this man absolutely despised him for no reason, took his skewers and retreated.
They met again (heh) three months later at the audition for "Until We Meet Again" in April of 2019. I don't have a source for this anymore, but if I'm remembering my lore correctly, Prem's manager Paaty told Prem that Boun was there, and when Prem didn't recognize the name, Paaty said, "Milkshake guy," and Prem grew fangs and a tail and hissed out green venom. Something like that.
As I mentioned in Prem's section, they were then also cast in "Longkhong" together based on Prem's initiative, and they filmed both series at the same time. Noticing their awkwardness around each other at workshops for "Until We Meet Again," LazySheep suggested that they go out to eat together, and while that helped the ice break a bit, they've said they got most comfortable with each other on the set of "Longkhong." No idea why.
["Longkhong" (2020)]
Many, many viewers of "Until We Meet Again" were smitten with Boun and Prem and enthusiastically supported an adaptation of the same author's parallel novel (not sequel) "Hemp Rope" about Boun and Prem's characters WinTeam. It was given a green light and announced in May of 2020 on Win's birthday a few months after the end of "Until We Meet Again," but due to the pandemic and government-imposed limitations on the number of people allowed in public spaces, filming the full production with the crew and cast needed was impossible.
In the meantime, to keep Boun and Prem in the public eye and consciousness, Studio Wabi Sabi and Prem's agency Starlatiz worked together to get BounPrem work as an imaginary couple (คู่จิ้น). It cannot be overstated how much New Siwaj is singularly responsible for the survival of BounPrem's brand and individual careers at this time. Even when Prem chose not to renew his contract with Starlatiz and continued as a freelancer, New treated him like an honorary artist under his agency and sometimes even promoted Prem's solo work apart from Boun.
In 2024, Boun was invited to join GMMTV, but he waited to ask Prem to come with him until Prem's event in Korea was finished to avoid distracting him. As Prem is close to his family and takes their opinions seriously, he flew to Ubon in northern Thailand to discuss it with them.
By this point in their careers, with only one full series as the main couple under their belts, BounPrem had miraculously become one of the most stable imaginary couples in the Thai BL world with an incredibly loyal and powerful fanbase. One telltale sign of their success and GMMTV's faith in their brand is that Boun was able to transition his passion project "Revamp" from production under Studio Wabi Sabi to GMMTV.
["Revamp" (2025)]
As of 2026, they're due to begin production on their third main series together, "Plan B to U," written for them by author Jittirain and produced by Parbdee. (For them to get a series produced by Parbdee this soon out of the gate, it's very impressive to me.)
They remain very close, equally committed to their career together, and these are their biological children Piccolo (Prem's enormous cat) and Giant (Boun's teeny dog):
THE END (they've done so much and I probably missed a lot but please have mercy on my overloaded brain)
I’m almost done watching Sotus BUT these scenes are so similar. I’m going to stick with ArthitKong and WinTeam have a connection somehow. And this is my only proof 😆😆
First, I just love that BounPrem spent Chinese New Year together and that they shared it with us 😭😭
But can I also say I LOOOVE Prem’s eyes??? Especially the way the sun is hitting. I can see why Prem’s eyes are Boun’s favorite (besides Prem himself🥹). It really does shine❤️🩵
@thebroccolination I saw you respond to an anon about BounPrem’s first and only fight. I couldn’t find the user to link you the video BUT luckily I had this saved so hope this helps xD
Been thinking about how some people keep saying they don't feel the 'spark' with Bounprem anymore, unlike with WinTeam. And I think that's the point those people are missing? — Boun and Prem are showcasing a different kind of chemistry in Revamp, as they should!
WinTeam were all about fire and passion, unable to keep their hands off each other. They started out as a one-night stand that changed their whole lives. Two horny college kids, full of tension who didn't know how to communicate with words, so they used their bodies to convey their feelings no one wanted to admit out loud until they could properly open up to each other. Very chaotic, and silly, and messy.
Why on earth would Ramil and Punn behave like that? Even with gmmtv limits in terms of intimacy to take into account, these two characters are completely different 😭 At least to me, makes perfect sense how they've been portrayed so far.
Ramil and Punn... while Winteam were fire, they are more like water?
Ramil treats Punn as something precious and incredibly delicate because that is how he sees humanity. His touch is soft and his approach is careful, as if he could break Punn at any moment if he were to force something — and he almost did it, both when he used compulsion (broke his trust) and when he feed on him by force and almost killed him (although he was not intending to do so at all). Ramil doesn't want to hurt him! He's terrified of that, so he's careful and soothing, a calming and cute presence to bring light to his day although vampires have traumatized Punn before. And then there's Punn. He's probably never been cared for in his life. Always alone after his parent's death or training himself to kill and fulfill his revenge, he doesn't seem used to the idea of being loved. It doesn't even seems as if he was used to being intimate? Punn is simply awkward as hell, overall, my shayla, I love him.
Anyways. These two click easily. But everything about their interactions looks a bit weird because they are playing a game of cat and mouse with lots of lies and manipulation in between! It's intended! Once those are out of the way, it's full of tenderness and fondness. They talk, they seem simply happy to do mundane things together. Their thing is calming. They look at each other as if they're each other's safe place? Even then, you can't tell me there isn't lots of love in their eyes and desire, like, the spark is there. It's just different.
RamilPunn have such a complex relationship and the writing in "Revamp" is so layered and GOOD and every episode reveals new things and I'm giddy about it every week. I HAVE THINGS TO SAY ABOUT IT.
Like, Ramil would have died if he didn't drink specifically Punn's blood because Punn loves him, but Punn only truly fell in love with Ramil within the past two episodes.
He didn't love Ramil here!!! Cared for him, sure, and didn't want to kill him, yes. But Punn almost certainly said this because Ramil was influencing him to say what he wanted and needed to hear.
Like, Ramil has spent the entire show so far actively wooing Punn because he needed Punn to love him to break the curse, which wasn't broken until Punn actually loved him. And of course, Ramil's been falling for Punn in the process. Even as he was actively manipulating Punn's mind, Ramil stopped doing that and course-corrected when 1) he realized he couldn't force Punn to love him, and 2) he wanted to treat Punn with respect as Punn started to become more "potential partner" than "curse breaker."
Remember, Lilith said he's never loved anyone before. So Ramil doesn't actually know how to woo Punn. Lilith set Ramil up so he'd fall for Punn, and that's what actually worked on Punn. She's the ultimate puppetmaster here. (Mother of Demons. <3)
Like, the things that actually made an impact on Punn weren't any of the manipulations. It was Ramil's selfless actions done because he cares for him:
1) Telling Punn how to kill him to show he trusted him.
2) Getting closer to Pokpong. (*sans mind compulsion)
3) Offering comfort when Punn needed it most.
And I think because episode 4 is when Punn finds out what Ramil is capable of and what Ramil has been actively doing to his mind, I think that's when Punn finally has the agency to sort out how he feels and decide on his own that he does love this extremely powerful being who is also sort of hapless—and alone like he is.
That, "You're so stupid for choosing to trust me," line of Punn's is such a window into how Punn has seen their dynamic up to that point. For the first four episodes, Punn thought he had the upper hand. He'd killed countless members of Ramil's family already, so he wasn't afraid of Ramil. Plus, Ramil was playing with him and encouraging that harmless, defenseless goofball image to both endear himself to Punn and make it impossible for Punn to want to kill him.
Ramil told Punn how to kill him. Punn chose to hold the knife somewhere nonlethal, so I think Ramil's little smile means he realized Punn cared about him enough that he couldn't kill him.
That's why Ramil forced Punn to stab him: he was calling his bluff.
Ramil was in control that whole scene. Contrast that with when he's fatally wounded and Punn is trying to save him with his own blood—the only thing that could save him—and Ramil is almost out of his mind keeping Punn from doing it.
At this stage, Ramil doesn't care about the curse or his own survival. He won't hurt Punn even to save himself.
When Ramil said he'd die for Punn in episode 4, he meant it.
Punn hasn't had anyone who prioritized him like that. His parents died, his brother was adopted, and he was left to age out of the system and create a life on his own—after being attacked by vampires as a teenager. Ramil is more powerful than anyone he's ever known, and rather than risk killing Punn in a weakened state where he didn't trust himself to curb his intincts, Ramil was willing to die instead.
