“We’re going into a hiatus now,” said BTS’s Suga, 20 minutes into an-hour long YouTube discussion with his fellow band members earlier this week, displaying a matter-of-fact nonchalance that seemed quite at odds with the reaction he was about to generate.
The dreaded H-word has been a sign that the end is nigh when it comes to boy bands — as emotionally scarred Directioners will tell you. And so when it was uttered by the K-Pop titans, whose global success has surpassed all precedents, the reaction from onlookers around the world was one of understandable shellshock.
