{"id":406526,"date":"2026-01-13T14:03:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T14:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/406526\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T14:03:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T14:03:12","slug":"boa-concludes-25-years-with-sm-entertainment-chooses-not-to-renew-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/406526\/","title":{"rendered":"BoA concludes 25 years with SM Entertainment, chooses not to renew contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                Published: 12 Jan. 2026, 17:03<\/p>\n<p>                                    Updated: 12 Jan. 2026, 18:40\n                            <\/p>\n<p>                                                                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Singer BoA [SM ENTERTAINMENT]\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/7832288a-a79d-4899-bbd8-9a8542a8a58f.jpg\"\/>                                              <\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">Singer BoA [SM ENTERTAINMENT]<\/p>\n<p>                      \u00a0  <br \/>   Singer BoA will not be renewing her contract with SM Entertainment, the agency said Monday.  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>   BoA wrapped up a 25-year chapter with SM Entertainment on Dec. 31, 2025.  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>   The singer debuted in 2000 at the age of 13, releasing hit songs such as \u201cAtlantis Princess\u201d (2003), \u201cEat You Up\u201d (2008), \u201cHurricane Venus\u201d (2010) and \u201cOnly One\u201d (2012).  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>   \u201cWe are honored to have been part of every step of BoA\u2019s dazzling journey, from her remarkable debut that rewrote the history of K-pop to her growth into a chart-topping artist and accomplished producer,\u201d SM said in a statement.  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>   \u201cFor 25 years, BoA has been a source of pride and a defining symbol of SM Entertainment.\u201d  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>   BoA has not announced a new agency.  <\/p>\n<p>This article was originally written in Korean and translated by a bilingual reporter with the help of generative AI tools. It was then edited by a native English-speaking editor. All AI-assisted translations are reviewed and refined by our newsroom.<br \/>BY SHIN MIN-HEE [<a href=\"https:\/\/koreajoongangdaily.joins.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection\" class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"d7a4bfbeb9f9babeb9bfb2b297bdb8b8b9b0b6b9b0f9b4b8f9bca5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published: 12 Jan. 2026, 17:03 Updated: 12 Jan. 2026, 18:40 Singer BoA [SM ENTERTAINMENT] \u00a0 Singer BoA will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":{"0":"post-406526","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}