On June 14, 2022, the K-POP group BTS announced a hiatus through the BangtanTV YouTube channel on the content of the 2022 Dinner Festa.
The dinner event is claimed to be the members' seventh dinner to commemorate their 9th debut day which was recorded without a special script airing on June 14, 2022, located at BTS's old apartment. In the video, BTS members talk and express their hearts and minds honestly.
During the event, one of the BTS members, Yoongi, fondly called Suga, had a chance to talk about a hiatus and the BTS members also confirmed that they would focus more on solo projects for now.
The statement regarding the word 'hiatus' in the video content for the 2022 Dinner Festa turns out to have a contradiction between what BTS members meant in Korean and the English translation of the word hiatus in the video. So, since the broadcast of the video, there have been a lot of talks that BTS will go on hiatus or stop temporarily activities as a group.
However, quoted from the @AP Twitter account on Wednesday, June 15, 2022, Hybe as the label of BTS members clarified that BTS was not on hiatus. However, the members will focus more on their solo projects for now.
Regarding solo projects from BTS members, there is no further certainty. However, in the video, the members have confirmed that J-Hope will be doing his solo project first by releasing an album.
As for the group project, RM confirmed that they will continue the RUN BTS variety show that will air on the V App later.
As is known, BTS has just released its first anthology album, PROOF with three new songs in it, namely "Yet To Come", "For Youth", and "Run BTS". In the one-hour YouTube video, J-Hope also said that with the release of this album, BTS is officially in Chapter 2, which means that BTS members will focus more on developing themselves to be able to unite again with better and better conditions. mature.
"Each of us will take time to have fun and experience many things," Jungkook said.
"We promise to come back one day, even more, mature than now," he said.
