K-pop is nothing new. The modern era of South Korea's popular music scene began taking root in the early '90s after decades of influence from the Western world, and it slowly became something of an ...

The BTS Army was heartbroken when news broke that the beloved K-pop group was being forced into a musical hiatus due to South Korea’s mandatory military service policy imposed on each of the group’s ...

SEOUL, Oct 17 (Reuters) - K-pop boy band BTS will go off on mandatory military service, starting shortly with oldest member Jin, their agency said on Monday. Jin, 29, has put off his service for as ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — It’s official. All seven members of the massively popular K-pop group BTS have completed South Korea’s mandatory military service. Rapper Suga was the last of the bandmates ...

Fresh off a mandatory stint in the South Korean military, the members of BTS are returning to the stage. The K-pop supergroup, which is comprised of Jin, Suga, J-Hope, RM, Jimin, V and Jungkook, ...

WASHINGTON, May 31 (Reuters) - South Korean boy band BTS, a fundraising juggernaut for U.S. social justice causes, met with President Joe Biden at the White House on Tuesday to discuss hate crimes ...

In June, a self-contained — if not quite silent — majority made its presence known to the world. Fans of K-pop, the common shorthand for South Korean popular music, banded together to inflate ...