Why did BTS decide to pause group activities at the peak of its career?

BTS debuted in 2013 and became a top K-pop group sweeping up domestic music awards in 2016 and shot to global fame the following year. Photo: AFP

The abrupt decision by global sensation BTS to pause working together as a group appears to have come from a need to restore its identity and take a break in order to explore the growth of individual members, exhausted after working for nine years without a rest.

The bandmates frankly shared the difficulties they have experienced so far as part of a top K-pop group and how physically drained they are on a YouTube video of them having dinner together Tuesday (June 14), reported Yonhap.