{"id":25433,"date":"2025-07-27T07:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T07:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/25433\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T07:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T07:07:08","slug":"what-7-year-curse-bts-blackpink-and-the-new-era-of-global-k-pop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/25433\/","title":{"rendered":"What \u20187-year curse\u2019? BTS, Blackpink and the new era of global K-pop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Few groups survive a decade in the relentless world of K-pop<\/a>. But on a charged June night in Goyang, industry juggernauts BTS<\/a> celebrated 12 years since they first burst onto the scene.<\/p>\n

Last month\u2019s 2025 BTS Festa saw more than 60,000 fans pack the Kintex centre in the Seoul suburb to commemorate the group\u2019s anniversary and see all seven members of BTS back together again for the first time since they had fulfilled their mandatory military service.<\/p>\n

That same weekend, BTS member J-Hope held the final dates of his world tour in a nearby stadium complex.<\/p>\n

In a live stream, the group set the internet alight by announcing that a comeback album and long-awaited world tour were in the works for spring, delighting their global fandom, or \u201cArmy\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cHey guys, we are back,\u201d band member Jimin told viewers. \u201cWe\u2019re also planning a world tour alongside the album. We\u2019ll be visiting fans all around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"TheThe headquarters of Hybe, the agency behind K-pop megastars BTS, is seen in Seoul. Photo: AFP<\/p>\n

Just a few days earlier, thousands had gathered outside the headquarters of Hybe, the agency that manages the group, in Seoul\u2019s Yongsan district, braving the summer heat for a fleeting glimpse of their idols.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Few groups survive a decade in the relentless world of K-pop. But on a charged June night in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[24872,24871,64,63,424,13263,11924,24873,13539,24881,405,24866,512,8220,134,24879,3388,11596,24864,9975,24876,426,24867,2184,136,24868,22383,24882,12431,2016,5811,24874,24869,24877,24865,5813,24878,3725,24880,24870,2489,24875,3973],"class_list":["post-25433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-aespa","tag-ariana-grande","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bang-si-hyuk","tag-big-bang","tag-billboard","tag-black-lives-matter","tag-blackpink","tag-born-pink","tag-bts","tag-chanel","tag-china","tag-coachella","tag-entertainment","tag-goyang","tag-hybe","tag-justin-bieber","tag-k-culture","tag-k-pop","tag-kim-jeong-seob","tag-lee-jae-myung","tag-louis-vuitton","tag-mexico","tag-music","tag-newjeans","tag-nobel-prize","tag-recording-industry-association-of-korea","tag-rose","tag-russia","tag-seoul","tag-seventeen","tag-shin-jong-oh","tag-sm-entertainment","tag-sofi-stadium","tag-south-korea","tag-stray-kids","tag-thailand","tag-the-idol","tag-universal-music","tag-us","tag-yg-entertainment","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}