HYBE: BTS hiatus hurts growth of K-pop worldwide


Seoul: Making megastars BTS do their South Korean military service is slowing the global growth of K-pop, said the chairman of the septet’s agency HYBE.

The boyband are widely considered South Korea’s biggest-ever cultural phenomenon, selling out stadiums around the world and dominating the charts while raking in billions for the country’s economy and building a global legion of fans known as ARMYs.

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