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The return of BTS and whether K-pop stars should be allowed to love
To some fervent devotees, dating is a crime. Idols are meant to stay single.
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To some fervent devotees, dating is a crime. Idols are meant to stay single.
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Juliana Liu
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K-pop’s biggest-ever comeback tour, the return of the super boy band BTS, has been hijacked by a dating scandal. How the US$9 billion (S$11.6 billion) industry handles the excesses of superfan culture will have an impact on the way the genre extends its footprint globally.
The controversy that has fired up a small but vocal fandom centres on whether two of the industry’s biggest stars, Jungkook of BTS and Winter of Aespa, are in a relationship
