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BTS Fans Outraged After Industry Group Claims Hiatus Will Harm ‘Future of South Korea’s Music Industry’ - Rolling Stone

BTS Fans Outraged After Industry Group Claims Hiatus Will Harm ‘Future of South Korea’s Music Industry’ - Rolling Stone

BTS Fans Outraged After Industry Group Claims Hiatus Will Harm ‘Future of South Korea’s Music Industry’ - Rolling Stone
Jun 22, 2022 1 min, 17 secs

“BTS did not release an hour long video explaining everything for people to guilt trip them to keep working,” one fan wrote.

Just one week after BTS announced the group will go on hiatus, a South Korean music industry group is attracting the ire of ARMY denizens online after not-so-subtly suggesting the K-Pop superstars’ break might have serious consequences for the continued success of K-Pop worldwide.

In a statement from the Korea Singers Association attributed to president Lee Ja Yeon and republished by The Korea Times, the industry group expressed concern that the BTS phenomenon will be difficult for South Korea to replicate — a strange assumption, given that numerous K-Pop groups have found massive success overseas in recent years.

“I did not sign up to be a missionary of Hallyu wave and Korean culture,” one fan wrote on Twitter, while another fan on Reddit wrote, “BTS did not release an hour long video explaining everything for people to guilt trip them to keep working.”.

Lee also suggests that, without BTS, South Korea will lose its cultural cachet as a must-visit destination for international K-Pop fans as BTS devotees find other artists or bands to support.

“Right now, we’ve lost our direction, and I just want to take some time to think,” RM said during the FESTA video, explaining that “the whole idol system” means K-Pop artists aren’t given the “time to mature.” Jimin also discussed the group’s burnout, calling their efforts to reexamine and reinvent the BTS brand an “exhausting and long process.”

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