{"id":175382,"date":"2025-12-09T06:36:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T06:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/175382\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T06:36:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T06:36:07","slug":"bts-star-jung-kook-on-new-music-self-care-journey-and-life-after-seven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/175382\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS star Jung Kook on new music, self care journey and life after Seven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"WEeFTHfsBFTkKSx\" style=\"display:none\">Jung admits the positive reaction to his solo debut hit \u2013 which also topped the global charts, including the US Billboard Hot 100 \u2013 gave him a huge confidence boost.<\/p>\n<p class=\"WEeFTHfsBFTkKSx\" style=\"display:none\">He explained: \u201cEverything felt like a hassle, [Then] Seven made me want to get back to it. I really loved Seven and felt confident performing it, but I was still surprised by how well it was received.<\/p>\n<p class=\"WEeFTHfsBFTkKSx\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThat reaction gave me even more confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"WEeFTHfsBFTkKSx\" style=\"display:none\">In 2022, BTS had to put their careers on hold because of 18 months of military service \u2013 which is compulsory for all able-bodied men in South Korea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"WEeFTHfsBFTkKSx\" style=\"display:none\">In July 2025, the boy band \u2013 formed of Jung Kook, Jin, 33, Suga, 32, J-Hope, 31, RM, 31, Jimin, 30, and 29-year-old V \u2013 reunited and revealed they are working on a new album, set for release in spring 2026, with a world tour to follow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"WEeFTHfsBFTkKSx\" style=\"display:none\">With BTS creating new music, Jung Kook is evaluating himself on whether he will create new solo material.<\/p>\n<p class=\"WEeFTHfsBFTkKSx\" style=\"display:none\">The star explained: \u201cThis is a time where I can evaluate whether I can take another leap forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"WEeFTHfsBFTkKSx\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cRather than doing the same kind of performances or similar songs repeatedly, I\u2019m trying new things and continuing to evolve so I can show different sides of myself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"WEeFTHfsBFTkKSx\" style=\"display:none\">And Jung Kook wants to go beyond boundaries with his career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"WEeFTHfsBFTkKSx\" style=\"display:none\">Speaking about moving forward as an artist, he said: \u201cI\u2019ve always pursued change. I want to be an artist who doesn\u2019t get dragged by the flow, but creates the flow. I don\u2019t want to be confined \u2013 I want to be an artist without limits.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jung admits the positive reaction to his solo debut hit \u2013 which also topped the global charts, including&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[29493,271,1845,6934,458,146,85019,103134,85,46,18569,103132,103133,2400,1854,1017,409,22801,3716,6717,3839,28778,3263,4952],"class_list":["post-175382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-after","tag-and","tag-bts","tag-care","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-feels","tag-himself","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-journey","tag-jung","tag-kook","tag-life","tag-love","tag-more","tag-music","tag-needs","tag-new","tag-on","tag-self","tag-seven","tag-show","tag-star"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}