{"id":332784,"date":"2025-12-07T12:53:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T12:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/332784\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T12:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T12:53:10","slug":"rm-says-bts-considered-disbanding-before-committing-to-a-full-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/332784\/","title":{"rendered":"RM Says BTS Considered Disbanding Before Committing to a Full Return"},"content":{"rendered":"

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K-pop boy group BTS is seen in this photo provided by BigHit Music.<\/p>\n

SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) \u2014\u00a0As BTS prepares for a full-group comeback next spring, RM, the group\u2019s leader and most public voice, acknowledged that the band had wrestled with existential questions during its hiatus \u2014 including whether it should continue at all.<\/p>\n

The group is slated to reunite in 2025 after all seven members complete their mandatory military service, a milestone that marks the end of a period defined by individual pursuits, public speculation, and a rare pause in one of the most profitable cultural enterprises in modern pop music.<\/p>\n

Speaking during a livestream on Weverse over the weekend, RM said the transition has been less seamless than devoted fans might imagine. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe have wondered ten thousand times whether it would be right to disband or suspend activities,\u201d he admitted, noting how the intensity of the past decade \u2014 relentless touring, global fame, and historic levels of scrutiny \u2014 forced the group to reconsider what their future should look like.<\/p>\n

What ultimately sustained BTS, he suggested, was not commercial momentum or global expectations but the emotional architecture inside the group itself. \u201cWhat has kept this team going is how much we love each other,\u201d RM said, adding that the members\u2019 commitment to their audience has remained a constant even as their careers and identities have evolved.<\/p>\n

RM confirmed that work on the group\u2019s next album is moving steadily. BTS announced in July that it plans to release a new full-group album and embark on a world tour next spring.<\/p>\n

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RM, the leader of the global pop phenomenon BTS (Yonhap)<\/p>\n

\u201cPreparations for the album are almost being made,\u201d he said with his characteristically understated phrasing. \u201cWe practiced together yesterday. We are filming and practicing every day. We will show you after we prepare well.\u201d<\/p>\n

If released on schedule, the album will become BTS\u2019s first full-group project in nearly four years, following the anthology \u201cProof\u201d and the group\u2019s final concert before enlistment, \u201cYet to Come in Busan,\u201d in 2022. For a band that has often represented the centrifugal pull of globalization \u2014 millions of fans, dozens of languages, an industry reshaped in its wake \u2014 the comeback is less a simple return than a test: Can the most influential pop group of the 21st century regroup after the rare experience of stopping?<\/p>\n

RM\u2019s answer, at least for now, seems hopeful, grounded not in inevitability but in renewed intention \u2014 seven men, out of uniform and back in a studio, deciding to make music together again.<\/p>\n

Lina Jang (linajang@koreabizwire.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"K-pop boy group BTS is seen in this photo provided by BigHit Music. SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,13902,13896,13898,13900,13901,136,13905,13899,13897,13903,13904],"class_list":{"0":"post-332784","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-global-influencer","12":"tag-global-news-portal","13":"tag-global-publicity","14":"tag-korean-business","15":"tag-korean-policy","16":"tag-music","17":"tag-news-viral","18":"tag-pr-portal","19":"tag-press-release-distributor","20":"tag-social-influencer","21":"tag-social-viral"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332784","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=332784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}