Band members make shock announcement throughout dinner to mark the group’s founding in 2013.
BTS have mentioned they're taking an indefinite break from the Ok-pop supergroup to concentrate on their solo careers.
The group, credited with producing billions of dollars for the South Korean financial system, dropped the bombshell throughout their annual “FESTA” dinner, a part of a celebration that marks the group’s founding and was streamed on-line.
“We’re going right into a hiatus now,” mentioned Suga, 29, some 20 minutes into the clip, which was posted to the group’s official YouTube channel.
The Grammy-nominated group’s seven members have been talking to one another in Korean, and the video included English subtitles.
A consultant for the band disputed the phrase ‘hiatus’ in a later assertion.
“To be clear, they aren't on hiatus however will take time to discover some solo tasks at the moment and stay energetic in numerous completely different codecs,” the assertion mentioned.
Jimin, 26, mentioned the members have been “slowly attempting to determine issues out” and that “we’re beginning to consider what sort of artists we every need to be remembered by our followers”.
“I believe that’s why we’re going by means of a tough patch proper now, we’re looking for our identification and that’s an exhausting and lengthy course of.”
By the top of the dinner a number of of the members of the group behind “Dynamite” and “Butter” grew tearful as they voiced gratitude for his or her followers, collectively generally known as the “ARMY.”
J-Hope, 28, mentioned the group “ought to spend a while aside to discover ways to be one once more”.
“I hope you don’t see this can be a unfavourable factor,” the artist implored followers. “And see that it’s a wholesome plan.”
The information induced anxiousness amongst followers, however Suga later reassured that BTS was not “disbanding – we’re simply dwelling aside for some time”.
BTS has mentioned they have been happening brief breaks earlier than, first in 2019 and later in December 2021.
The information comes simply days after the group launched Proof, an anthology album that included a brand new single, But To Come (The Most Lovely Second).
J-Hope mentioned within the clip that point aside might assist BTS “change into a stronger group,” and that the time was “necessary … for BTS’s second chapter.”
“I hope all our members keep wholesome whereas they spend time on our personal,” added the singer who's slated to headline Chicago’s Lollapalooza on his personal in late July.
BTS made its debut in 2013 and was the primary Asian band to win artist of the yr on the American Music Awards. The group has twice been nominated for a Grammy.
The band just lately made headlines for visiting the White Home to ship a message to President Joe Biden on the battle in opposition to anti-Asian racism.
The White Home praised the band as “youth ambassadors who unfold a message of hope and positivity internationally”.
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