(Seoul) K-pop group BTS, one of the most influential on the planet and which was recently received by US President Joe Biden, announced a break on Tuesday so that each of the seven young men composing it focuses on his own career.
Posted at 12:34 p.m.
Updated at 1:18 p.m.
The announcement, which had the effect of a bomb, was made during a dinner broadcast online to mark the anniversary of the “ boy band made up of seven South Korean artists in their twenties, considered ambassadors of part of the world’s youth and extremely popular, especially in the United States.
In 2021, BTS recorded annual revenue of over $1 billion, driven by online content and album sales.
One of the seven, “RM”, 27, explained that after several nominations for the Grammy Awards, the music industry awards, they “didn’t know what group they were forming” anymore, adding that some members were ” exhausted”.
“I always thought BTS was different from other bands. […]but the problem with K-pop and the whole star system is that you don’t have time to mature,” the young man continued to address millions of fans and the industry. world music.
“RM” pointed out that as a group, BTS “must keep producing music and doing something.”
“In ten years, I have changed and I need to think and have time for myself,” concluded the artist.
One of his co-stars, 26-year-old Jimin (Park Ji-min), didn’t say anything else, saying at that dinner that he and his six young co-artists were “little by little trying to figure out” what’s going on. happened to them and to “think about the memory that everyone wanted to leave to their admirers”.
The group had been invited on May 31 by President Biden to the White House to denounce racism against Asian people in the United States. The American presidency said it saw BTS as “ambassadors of youth who spread a message of hope and optimism” to the world.
The septet has already been invited twice to address the United Nations, in 2018 and 2021, in particular on climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic.