Seokjin's personal concert means no BTS comeback tilll the 4th qtr of 2025

I was flabbergasted when I saw the announcement of Seokjin's solo concert which will last at least until August.

And I have to be amazed by his selfishness.

If he had left the group in 2022, the remaining members could have kicked the enlistment till at least mid-2024, and the changed political environment would have probably led to at least the younger members getting the exemption.

And, when the younger members return, he gets to have a solo concert which will last until late August, which means no comeback until October at the earliest, and since few concerts open in wintertime, no concerts until 2026.

What is that?

I am simply flabbergasted.

All these people who wanted to drag BTS to the military, using the 'longer career' argument which I have disproved too many times to repeat hear, are silent when the leader of Seventeen got an exemption and also the fact that the Australians in Stray Kids (the leader, Christopher Bang, was born in Korea) will never enlist.

Stray Kids would be laughing very, very hard now. They already have the largest concert tour by a Kpop act, ever, and in 2026 they will just schedule one more tour date to outdo BTS' record. The ball is now in JYP's side!

The entire MHJ circus made sure that BTS would not continue as a whole as the members began to think about themselves and how MHJ and New Jeans were paid like queens while they were not treated that well and ADOR still occupies the top floor of the Hybe building, over all other acts incl BTS.

And such behavior of Seokjin will simply weaken the already seriously undermined cohesion of the act.

it increasingly seems next year's BTS concert will be its last dance as a whole, until they turn 50 or something and by then it would be a bit hard for them to dance.

It would have been much better if they ditched Korea, drag the services as long as humanly could or just decide to domicile out of Korea, and continue to dominate the world except Korea which could have IU, Lim Youngwoong and so forth, and let people like Taylor Swift and Morgan Wallen shriek in fear till around 2025 and go their way after that , than this, which seems to be the worst possible progression people could imagine back in 2022.

Quote from tetetete

Losing any of the members is a big drop in brand value, being 7 is a big part of their brand

Stray Kids had 9 members but it got rid of Woojin and got bigger.

The momentum in 2022 can never be repeated.

OT6 in 2022 would have been about 10 times as powerful as OT7 in 4Q 2025.

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I dont think BTS is making a comeback this year. Jungkook is rumored to do a tour after him. I think BTS might do a tour on 3rd or 4th quarter of 2026.

That will make half of the remaining fans to leave.

So much for the longer career argument.

Something has to be announced asap and showing that the members put their own personal interest first is not a good strategy, especially when even BlackPink is re-uniting in 2025.

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He gets like 3% lines and screen time anyways. His involvement in a concert is not going to affect their comeback much. I am sure he can handle both easily. He's a veteran at this point.

Then why Hybe did not run a concert without him and make BTS continue to be dominant?

That argument means it was OK to cut him and continue to defy the mostly irrelevant Korean incels for at least one more year.

If BTS had a larger tour than anyone else in 2023, would Taylor Swift and Morgan Wallen become that uppity? I doubt it.

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I think maybe all of them want to tour at least once solo and I think it'll be a good experience for them. I just worry about the fans bank accounts lol.

You forget that BTS needs time to plan their concepts and record their music. They also need time to relax and just chill with family because they were in the military before. Not every member would want to jump straight into work.

Jin is not selfish at all. Especially when he says he makes sure his releases don't clash with the other members.

Planning concept and such work are the work of Big Hit producers. They are responsible fore the big picture, and the members would coordinate with them so they could jump back into the ring asap.

Did all of them go vacationing in the 2 plus years?

All of them wanting to have at least one solo tour means the team cohesion has all but disappeared. In arge part because of MHJ.

BTS' stature around the world has declined significantly. It is already too late to restore itself to its former glory and delaying its comeback just means less fans remaining.

Seokjin's release and concert already clashes with the overall plan and has made it sure that there would be no comebacks until the 4th qtr at the earliest and no tours till the spring of 2026.

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did any one expected them to come dancing out of the barracks 🙄🙄

They probably need rest and recharge their energy and meanwhile other active members can carry on their solo activities.

Not to mention, writing and producing a whole new album take hell lot of time, I don't think a bts comeback is happening until 2nd quarter of 2026, and up until then may be jungkook would go on a solo tour too.

BTS lost almost all of its grounds it held on 2022 and now BlackPink and Stray Kids and Seventeen are mocking it

They could rest for a couple of months and it is the job of the company to go through songs , production, etc so everything would be smoothened out for a faster comeback

But Hybe did nothing, meaning it spent all of its resources fighting MHJ, not preparing for a BTS comeback

MHJ hurt Bang's ego so his sycophants in the Hybe organization spent more time fighting MHJ than preparing for BTS' comeback

songs from Hybe organization have been generally weaker since the MHJ fiasco. Magnetic is the last Hybe song to top the Melon charts (Zico is generally not considered to be a Hybe act, running his own game), and after the MHJ fiasco aespa, Roseanne Park and GDragon dominated, not Hybe acts.

They should have at least drawn a map for a comeback, instead of doing nothing and let someone have his own concert which would delay everything

Nowdays the job of the producers is choosing from the hundreds of songs submitted by no name composers around the world , especially in Hybe organization. A song from LeSserafim, Unforgiven, was mostly written by a Shim Hyewon, US citizen. Shim Hyewon trained to become a composer but after she submitted the song 15 other people added their names for its credit. (Shim Hyewon is now known as Belle in Kiss of Life but that is another story)

That is how Hybe does things. The songs are there, and the producers should have made them kind of ready by the time the members are discharged. But they did nothing