Korea Singers Association president slammed for urging BTS not to go on hiatus

Members of BTS announced on June 14 that they would be taking a hiatus to focus on solo projects. Photo: Filepic

A week after BTS announced it was taking a hiatus to focus on solo projects, the president of the Korea Singers Association, Lee Ja-yeon, urged the K-pop mega boy band to reconsider.

"I'm overcome by my fear and concern that the BTS Hallyu (Korean wave), a movement possessing the greatest cultural soft power that the world has ever witnessed, will vanish soon," she wrote in a statement on June 22, according to entertainment portal Allkpop.