Among groups from big companies, who holds the record for the longest hiatus?

The one that says they are always in my area, but are never

Also, Wonder Girls, I think it was more than 2 years. Sohee left, Sunye got married and have a baby, Sunmi rejoined after, and they started playing instruments

F(x) cause they were never officially disbanded

Depends on what you count as a hiatus.

If it's just a gap between releasing music, then I think it goes to SNSD.

It was basically five years to the day between Holiday Night and Forever 1

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F(x) cause they were never officially disbanded

The fact that they can pop out of nowhere with a comeback like SNSD did---

I don't know how SM contracts work over there...someone tried to explain it to me but I still don't understand any of it that well

In your area batch. I mean most of the groups here mentioned one or two reasons for their hituas but revolution batch simple went to hituas because well simply i dont know

While Kara did break up in 2016 and return this year (6 years gap) DSP isn't a big company and technically Kara did actually break up with statements and everything you can't really call it a hiatus.

So SNSD. Between 2017 to now is around 5 years. They never disbanded and all members were still using SNSD brand name during the hiatus.

For fx is extremely tricky. Krystal had zero interest in being an idol by the end and Victoria was a huge name in China, why would she want to return to Korea for a short lived cb?