So You Thought BTS Was Going on Break? LOL.

It each happened truthful fast. Off the backmost of their anthology album’s merchandise successful June 2022, BTS shared a prerecorded dinner with fans. Amid a delicious-looking show of shrimp and nutrient and broadside dishes, the boys announced that they were taking a interruption from making euphony arsenic a radical to prosecute solo projects. When we look back, the announcement wasn’t astonishing — BTS spent the past decennary surviving and making euphony together, truthful a interruption to find their ain idiosyncratic sounds and stories was possibly overdue. But successful the contiguous aftermath of the announcement, the quality of BTS’s interruption elicited a benignant of hysteria: Hybe’s stocks tanked (this would beryllium BTS’s absorption company), galore observers speculated that the “hiatus” would look similar One Direction’s (namely, BTS would ne'er instrumentality arsenic a group), and fans began to program for their lives without changeless updates from the Tannies (some resolved to enactment connected themselves).

The meal was a harbinger of an announcement that led galore to self-identify arsenic a subject wife: BTS is present connected a three-year hiatus to implicit mandatory service. Off the heels of their October performance to beforehand Busan’s bid for the 2030 World Expo, the set announced their volition to service successful the subject sequentially until a planned reunion successful 2025. (Korean men are required to statesman their 18-month work by the clip they crook 28, though BTS was granted a two-year hold for their taste achievements.) Jin, who turned the large 3-0 successful December 2022, was the archetypal subordinate to enlist.

Their committedness to proceed making euphony some arsenic a radical and arsenic soloists wasn’t empty. BTS announced that they volition renew contracts with their label, Hybe’s Big Hit Music, agreeing to enactment with the institution connected their aboriginal releases from 2025 onwards. Big Hit Music passed a committee solution to motion exclusive agreements with the members sequentially, a property merchandise stated connected September 20. Those presently serving successful the subject volition statesman activities nether the caller declaration erstwhile they return. “With the renewal of their contracts, we are looking guardant to supporting BTS’ radical activities expected successful 2025,” the institution said successful a statement. “HYBE and BIGHIT MUSIC volition supply each enactment indispensable to proceed to grow and elevate BTS’ presence.”

In December 2023, a twelvemonth aft Jin archetypal began his mandatory subject service, RM, Jimin, V, and Jung Kook officially enlisted, meaning that the full radical person go progressive work members. That doesn’t mean they’ve wholly disappeared, though. As expected, BTS has continued to merchandise prerecorded contented up of their expected instrumentality successful 2025. Below, a useful database of their radical and solo activities frankincense far, including Jungkook’s caller single, “Never Let Go,” and the announcement of Jimin and Jungkook’s caller travel show.

Jimin and Jungkook taped a question amusement together, earlier some boys enlisted for their compulsory subject service. They traveled to New York state, Jeju Island successful South Korea, and Sapporo successful Japan. The show, titled Are You Sure?!, premieres connected Disney+ August 8. BigHit dropped a trailer connected Twitter July 2.

Just due to the fact that he’s successful the service, it doesn’t mean Jimin has stopped serving. On June 17, helium announced his 2nd solo project, Muse. The seven-track medium volition get connected July 19, conscionable a twelvemonth and 4 months aft his debut medium deed the ARMY streets hard. It volition diagnostic songs that “document his travel to find the root of his inspiration” and showcase his “expanded philharmonic spectrum,” according to the property release. His prerelease single, “Closer Than This,” which dropped successful December 2023 arsenic a acquisition to fans, volition look connected the album. The lyrics are afloat of references to BTS and ARMYs, and the euphony video includes aged footage of the set from passim their career. Ultimately, helium asks fans not to worry, assuring them, “Baby, I’ll travel backmost to you.”

Previously, aft months of lying successful hold for Jimin’s medium announcement, the statement confirmed that his solo debut album, Face, would get connected March 24, 2023. BTS’s Instagram relationship gave america a sensation of what was successful store connected February 21. “Reflection of susceptible minds and unexposed wounds,” the text, titled “Circle of Resonance,” read. “Waves originated from the deepest invisible interior world, walk done the look connected the aboveground and scope others to resonate portion transmitting the interior voice.” A video dropped an hr later, confirming the album’s rubric and merchandise date. We autumn into a dark, watery abyss successful the 35-second-clip, lone to find ourselves abruptly supra a inactive pinkish excavation arsenic h2o droplets autumn onto the surface.

He has had workplace sessions with damn adjacent every producer nether the prima to marque the record. Jimin has met with predominant Ye collaborator Hudson Mohawke, TBHits and Mr. Franks (the engineers down Ariana Grande’s biggest hits), and Taylor Hill, to sanction a few. He was besides pictured signaling with a afloat choir overseen by instrumentalist Duane Benjamin days earlier “WAP” mastermind Ayo the Producer followed Jimin connected Instagram (are we getting “Church Girl (Jimin’s Version)”?

In an interrogation with Weverse Magazine successful June 2022, Jimin said his solo medium would beryllium “raw” and “explicit.” “I conscionable deliberation I tin amusement thing a small much earthy astir me. That mightiness see a much mature side, too, but what I’m truly funny successful is showing thing person to my real, idiosyncratic rawness straight successful a format similar euphony oregon euphony videos,” helium says. “I privation to beryllium amended and cooler.”

In the run-up to Jimin’s solo workplace debut, the “Serendipity” vocalist got to unrecorded retired his wildest dreams. He featured connected Taeyang’s R&B way “Vibe,” making bully usage of his chromatic falsetto connected the creaseless way that dropped January 13. “Taeyang is an idol to me,” he told W Korea successful a screen story, which arrived successful January, the aforesaid period Dior made him its marque ambassador and sent him to its Paris Fashion Week show. “You tin accidental that moving with him is 1 of the goals that I’ve been longing for. Ever since I was young, I’ve followed his vocation and learned a batch from him … Working with him made maine recognize that I privation to beryllium an creator who is an astonishing vocalist arsenic good arsenic a performer.”

Everyone: did you person a blessed Hobiuary? During J-to-the-희망’s day period this year, Hybe announced that helium volition beryllium releasing a six-track “special album,” Hope connected the Street Vol. 1, connected March 29. The afloat tracklist is stacked with features, including bandmate Jungkook, and labelmate Yunjin from Le Sserafim, positive Benny Blanco, Nile Rodgers, Gaeko, Yoon Mirae, and Jinbo the SuperFreak.

Songs from the merchandise volition besides beryllium featured successful the accompanying Prime Video docuseries Hope connected the Street, which tracks his travel arsenic a dancer and sees him gathering thoroughfare dancers from astir the world. The archetypal of six episodes volition driblet connected March 28, 2024 with play releases connected Thursdays and Fridays.

It’s not his archetypal documentary project. On February 17, 2023, J-Hope released J-Hope successful the Box connected Disney+, which chronicled the making of his archetypal workplace medium and the promotions that went on with it. (In July 2022, helium jumped retired the container with a caller album, Jack successful the Box.) The documentary’s merchandise mightiness person signaled the extremity of the rapper’s archetypal solo era, but that didn’t mean helium was going disconnected the grid. J-Hope made his Paris Fashion Week debut astatine 3 abstracted F/W 2023 shows — Louis Vuitton, Dior (with Jimin), and Hermès — perhaps kicking disconnected immoderate fashion-related globe-trotting.

Prior to the documentary’s debut, J-Hope capped disconnected 2022 with aggregate philharmonic appearances. He performed a medley of songs for Ryan Seacrest’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve in Times Square: “Equal Sign,” “Chicken Noodle Soup,” and “Butter (Holiday Remix).” He besides did his rounds astatine Korean awards shows, performing an intricately staged, large-scale rendition of “More,” “Arson,” and “Future” astatine the MAMA Awards connected November 30.

The rapper featured connected Crush’s “Rush Hour,” a groovy hip-hop way dropped connected September 24. Along with the opus came a ’90s-inspired euphony video with exuberant choreography (obviously, the creation aficionado expertly deed each step). The virtuoso made his solo signifier debut astatine Lollapalooza Hobipalooza connected July 31, 2022 an hour-long showcase of his skills arsenic a seasoned entertainer, performing tracks from Jack successful the Box, his mixtape Hope World, and assorted BTS albums.

J-Hope past announced his authoritative enlistment for mandatory subject service, per his grounds label. While helium was successful the process of enrollment, euphony was inactive a priority; his azygous “on the street” dropped connected March 3, 2023, conscionable implicit a period earlier helium enlisted connected April 18.

Suga and his change ego Agust D are coming to a theatre adjacent you. On March 5, Hybe announced the worldwide merchandise of SUGA | Agust D Tour “D-Day” the Movie connected April 10 and 13. The performance movie chronicles Suga’s past twelvemonth of performances, including 3 encore shows successful Seoul. His solo circuit was antecedently announced connected February 14, 2023 as a Valentine’s Day acquisition to me. He made past arsenic the archetypal BTS subordinate to embark connected a circuit alone, but much importantly, arsenic the archetypal subordinate to deed the stage, successful Hannah Montana fashion, arsenic 2 radical astatine once. Did helium person a wig to differentiate betwixt Suga and Agust D? Unfortunately not!

After his tour, Suga became the 3rd BTS subordinate to enlist. BIGHIT announced connected August 7 that Suga has begun the process of enlisting, by terminating his postponement. He enlisted September 22, 2023, per Billboard.

Before the circuit announcement, the “Daechwita” rapper besides made his Paris Fashion Week debut astatine Valentino’s couture amusement past period aft being named a marque ambassador. His different ambassadorship? An unofficial concern with the NBA. The league invited him to Japan for a crippled past year, wherever helium got to footwear it with the Golden State Warriors and look tiny.

In April 2023, we yet got an update connected his philharmonic output. Suga’s archetypal solo record, D-Day, came retired April 21. It’s technically not Suga’s album, since D-Day is credited to Agust D.

In the meantime, helium hosted a speech amusement wherever helium provides the nutrient and ambiance portion the impermanent provides the alcohol. Suchwita airs connected their YouTube channel, BangtanTV. Guests frankincense acold see Hoshi from the K-pop lad radical Seventeen, Big Bang subordinate Taeyang, bandmate RM, and more.

RM released his 2nd workplace medium Right Place, Wrong Person, connected May 24, a fewer months aft helium formally began his subject service. He kicked disconnected the medium rhythm with a euphony video for the last opus connected the album, “Come Back to Me.”

His latest euphony video dropped with the caller album, “LOST!” that was precise overmuch giving Severance vibes. Maybe he’s besides waiting for play two.

Two years ago, aft months of teasing caller euphony with unsubtle pics of medium files and Logic Pro screenshots, RM released his ten-track debut solo album, Indigo, connected December 2, 2022. “Indigo recounts the stories and experiences RM has gone through, similar a diary,” a property merchandise states. He kicked disconnected his colorful caller epoch with a euphony video for “Wild Flower,” which features youjeen (also known arsenic Cherry filter vocalist Jo Yujin). NPR besides booked him for a Tiny Desk concert, which premiered the aforesaid time the medium dropped.

“I’ve worked hard connected it for 4 years,” RM said of the medium connected November 10, 2022 per a instrumentality translation. “It’s precise antithetic from my erstwhile works, and amusive radical are included successful it.” The full tracklist features Erykah Badu, Anderson .Paak, Tablo, Paul Blanco, Mahalia, Kim Sawol, youjeen, Colde, and Park Jiyoon. Despite instrumentality predictions, Pharrell was not 1 of the amusive radical successful question. Pharrell antecedently said helium wanted to marque a opus for RM’s upcoming medium successful the duo’s Rolling Stone “Musicians connected Musicians” interview (the shaper already chopped a antithetic way with the radical for his ain upcoming album, Phriends). Others had speculated that Jungkook and J-Hope would besides marque an appearance, alongside Korean R&B vocalist BIBI, but nary of them showed. Hey, there’s ever the conspiracy mentation that RM has a concealed 2nd medium connected the way.

RM’s past solo merchandise arrived successful September of that year, erstwhile helium featured connected alternate K-pop radical Balming Tiger’s hip-hop way “Sexy Nukim.” (“Nukim” means “feeling” successful Korean … We suggest you ticker the galore angles of RM’s archetypal unrecorded show of the song, wherever helium embodies the track’s ethos to a terrifying degree.) He antecedently released 2 solo mixtapes — mono in 2018 and RM in 2015. Meanwhile, he’s slated to big the Korean assortment amusement The Dictionary of Useless Human Knowledge, wherever the show’s adept panelists sermon literature, physics, forensics, and astronomy. It aired play opening December 2, 2022.

Oh, and speech from each that, he’s inactive doing art things.

The creation philanthropist–slash–influencer was named 1 of 35 innovators successful the creation country by Artnet successful 2022. “RM, the person of planetary K-pop sensation BTS, has made nary concealed of his emotion for art,” reads his introduction. “He’s an avid collector, buying works by Korean artists […] He’s besides a savvy creation patron with an tremendous scope connected societal media, inspiring droves of BTS fans to question retired exhibitions ranging from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston’s Philip Guston amusement to presentations of accepted Korean achromatic porcelain satellite jars successful Hong Kong and Korea.”

In grant of BTS’s 11th-anniversary celebration, Jungkook released “Never Let Go” connected June 7, a house-inspired ode to fans. “And erstwhile the days gеt longer / You capable my satellite with wonder,” helium sings successful the pre-chorus implicit agleam synth beats, asking ARMY to stay by his side. “Everybody needs idiosyncratic / You been that idiosyncratic / So enactment with maine and support holding on.”

Jungkook announced his archetypal workplace medium connected October 3, making him the 4th subordinate to merchandise a afloat task successful 2023 alone. Golden takes its rubric from his nickname, golden maknae, oregon “golden youngest” successful English. It features 11 tracks, including prerelease singles “SEVEN” and “3D.” The medium dropped connected November 3.

The youngest was the archetypal to merchandise a way successful the post-BTS-break world, and the archetypal subordinate and archetypal Korean to execute astatine the World Cup’s opening ceremonial connected November 20, 2022 debuting a caller single, “Dreamers.” “Proud to denote that Jungkook is portion of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Soundtrack & volition execute astatine the World Cup opening ceremony. Stay tuned!” BTS said connected Twitter. While fans expressed their pridefulness for the 25-year-old popular star, immoderate online recovered the determination to enactment successful the lawsuit arguable owed to Qatar’s human-rights record, which includes criminalizing homosexuality. Days aft Jungkook was added to the slate, Dua Lipa said she refused to perform astatine the lawsuit and looks “forward to visiting Qatar erstwhile it has fulfilled each the quality rights pledges.”

Earlier that summer, Jungkook featured connected Charlie Puth’s summertime earworm “Left and Right,” singing astir however helium can’t get a vague person retired of his caput due to the fact that they “did things to maine that I conscionable can’t forget.” The opus is cute and precise amusive to thrust to. The euphony video is the 2nd 1 to picture Jungkook some getting deed by a car and perhaps having a cheery lover.

Fresh disconnected the merchandise of his first solo single, “The Astronaut,” connected October 28, 2022 — the opus earned Jin his archetypal solo Hot 100 hit, debuting astatine No. 51, on with a apical spot connected Billboard’s Digital Song Sales illustration — the eldest started moving the variety-show circuit. He made appearances connected Running Man, Halmyungsoo, and rapper Young-ji’s speech amusement Nothing Much Prepared (the second gets chaotic and existent astir the outgo of fame … plus, the big passes retired drunk successful the bathroom, truthful Jin has to adjacent the amusement alone). He besides became the spokesperson for the ramen marque Jin Ramen successful November 2022. You’d deliberation helium would person already earned that gig, but, yeah, his dream collab lone conscionable came true.

Jin besides hosted a caller assortment amusement with celebrated Korean cook Baek Jong-won. The bid is centered connected 2 things: making intoxicant and eating food, with peculiar guests and random activities sprinkled successful to support it spicy. Jin’s Traditional Alcohol Journey premiered November 12, 2022 connected BTS’s YouTube channel.

Before leaving for the subject connected December 13, 2022 to complete his mandatory service, Jin got the shot rolling connected plans to administer the intoxicant helium learned however to marque successful the assortment amusement with the celebrated chef. “Jin is preparing a brewery nether his name,” Baek said successful an interrogation with OSEN. “He’s been filling oak casts with alcohol, which should beryllium acceptable to portion by the clip he’s discharged from the military. I privation to adhd oak scents and flavors to soju, akin to whisky. There’s nary authoritative sanction of this portion we’re creating conscionable yet.”

The cool shadiness stunner is gearing up to driblet a caller integer single, “Fri(end)s,” connected March 15. It’s described arsenic a popular psyche R&B way with all-English lyrics, and V volition driblet a abbreviated movie up of the euphony video release.

It his archetypal euphony video quality of 2024, V starred successful IU’s latest euphony video, “Love Wins All,” to tug astatine our heartstrings. They play a mates who’s surviving successful a post-apocalyptic satellite unneurotic portion inactive trying to make blessed memories successful their imagination.

V antecedently collaborated with UMI connected “wherever u r,” dropped arsenic a acquisition to america connected his 28th day connected December 30, 2023. That year, helium besides released a vibey solo medium conscionable successful clip for the fall. Layover dropped connected September 8, 2023. A euphony video accompanied each opus connected the six-track album, starting with pb azygous “Love Me Again.”

V besides had a starring relation successful a caller assortment series. Jinny’s Kitchen takes Taehyung and his celebrated friends, Park Seo-joon (Itaewon Class), Choi Woo-shik (Parasite), and Jung Yu-mi (Kim Ji-young: Born 1982), to Mexico, wherever they unfastened up a Korean eatery tally by fashionable histrion Lee Seo-jin. Everyone but the BTS subordinate has participated successful show’s erstwhile iterations — Minari’s Youn Yuh-Jung utilized to tally shops successful Spain and Bali for Youn’s Kitchen and a accepted edifice for Youn’s Stay — truthful naturally, the greenish popular prima is the intern-slash-dishwasher for Lee’s establishment. It deed Amazon Prime Video play starting February 24, 2023.

Before Jinny’s Kitchen, V landed connected the screen of Vogue Korea in September 2022, teasing euphony that would amusement a caller broadside of the artist. “I privation to contiguous a benignant of euphony that I’ve ne'er tried before, thing that sets isolated from the benignant BTS’s V has shown,” helium told the magazine. “Being capable to prosecute one’s ain euphony benignant lights the passionateness and enthusiasm successful us. That’s what keeps america successful emotion with what we do.” Though thing has been confirmed, outlets study his debut solo medium volition get sometime adjacent twelvemonth (Tae’s been teasing his solo worldly for a while, but has admittedly deleted everything that doesn’t marque the cut).

Over the summer, helium featured successful Disney +’s In the Soop: Friendcation, a assortment amusement that follows a four-day friendcation to a seaside municipality with Choi Woo-shik, Park Seo-joon, Park Hyung-sik (Strong Woman Do Bong Soon), and instrumentalist Peakboy. The amusement premiered connected July 22, 2022.

The rumor mill besides teases a instrumentality to acting — he had a portion successful the K-drama Hwarang: The Warrior Poet in 2016 — though there’s truly been nary confirmations successful that department. People truly privation to spot him successful Squid Game 2.

BTS is back! Through archival footage and interviews, anyway. The radical has released an eight-part documentary connected Disney + tracking their 10 twelvemonth travel connected December 20, 2023. According to Disney, BTS Monument: Beyond the Star includes “a immense room of euphony and footage implicit the past 9 years,” arsenic good arsenic “the regular lives, thoughts, and plans of BTS members, arsenic they hole for their 2nd chapter.” In the months prior, the seven-piece added writer to their résumé by releasing a book titled Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS connected July 9. Written by the set and writer Myeongseok Kang, it’s an oral past of the making of the radical implicit the 10 years they’ve been together. However, if you’re not a reader, arsenic portion of a woody betwixt Hybe and Disney, BTS released a 4K performance film, BTS: Permission to Dance connected Stage — LA, tied to their November 2021 amusement successful Los Angeles.

Despite announcing a hiatus, BTS continues to merchandise euphony arsenic a group. Most recently, they commemorated their 10th day successful June 2023 by gifting fans with the azygous “Take Two.” The period prior, the set besides created the taxable opus for the Korean animated movie Bastions titled “The Planet,” marking their archetypal authoritative opus since 2022.

In August 2022, the band’s vocal enactment (Jungkook, V, Jimin, and Jin) released a way with Snoop Dogg and Benny Blanco, “Bad Decisions.”

This is simply a processing story.