The popular k-pop group BTS has announced a “break” because it is “exhausted”, so that each of its seven young members can focus on their own career following the global success of the multi-billion-dollar group in the South Korean economy. As an artistic investment project belonging to the company “Hype”, which manages the band’s business. The company’s share price witnessed a decline in the stock market, as its share price in Seoul fell 27% on Wednesday morning, and the company announced that the band members “will launch in parallel individual and group projects.”
And US President Joe Biden’s recent reception of the band to denounce from the White House podium of racism targeting Asians in the United States, a clear evidence of its great influence on a section of the globalized youth.
In 2021, the group of seven twenties brought in more than a billion dollars in revenue from their online content and album sales.
The 27-year-old member of the band “RM” explained that following being nominated several times for the Grammy Awards dedicated to the American music industry, “they no longer know what group they are in,” adding that some members are “exhausted.”
Fans of the band showed their understanding of their members’ decision and wrote tens of thousands of comments under the YouTube video.
While one wrote, “I really admire their candor,” another said that the band members “are people like us, they can get tired and exhausted. They deserve to rest and enjoy what they love to do.”
K-pop expert Lee Moon-won regretted the “confusing” and “unclear” announcement.
He told AFP, “It seems that what the band members intended is that BTS will continue its side collective work (such as those on YouTube), coinciding with the work of each of them on their artistic career without stopping to release new albums as a group.
The band BTS, which recently released an album titled “Proof”, includes anthology of their work. To announce “breaks” in 2019 and 2021.
But band member J-Hope stressed that this time the group needed a “change” and wanted to “start a new chapter”.