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BTS members RM and V start compulsory military service in South Korea. Band seeks to reunite in 2025

The management agency of the popular K-pop band BTS says two of the group members, RM and V, have begun their mandatory military duties under South Korean law

The Independent UK

Jung Kook: Golden review – BTS star searches for his own sound

The K-pop boyband star nods to Craig David, Justin Timberlake and more on a solo debut that’s best when his dreamy falsetto soars

The Guardian - UK

Jung Kook: Golden review – a sexed-up, hook-filled but unremarkable solo debut

The talented BTS singer follows a well-worn path from boyband member to solo star, plunging into competent pop-R&B – including an Ed Sheeran co-write

The Guardian - UK

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Music Review: BTS member Jung Kook's solo debut, 'Golden,' is no-skip pop bliss

Jung Kook, the youngest member of the K-pop group BTS, has released his triumphant debut solo album

The Independent UK

Jung Kook – Golden album review: the BTS singer shoots for solo stardom

The K-pop group's most rebellious member is still too young for military service, and so instead, he's having a ball making smooth, fluid solo pop

Evening Standard

BTS' Jung Kook to join Global Citizen Festival lineup to make one of his first US solo appearances

Jung Kook of BTS will join the Global Citizen Festival lineup, making one of his first live solo appearances at the Sept. 23 benefit concert in New York’s Central Park

The Independent UK

Jung Kook becomes first BTS member to achieve No 1 on Billboard Global Charts

Singer’s new track ‘Seven’ reportedly racked up over 217 million streams and 269,000 downloads in less than a week

The Independent UK

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World Cup 2022: who won the prize for 'soft power'?

After four weeks, 64 games and more than a decade of controversy, Argentina has won the Fifa men’s World Cup in Qatar. And as Lionel Messi and his teammates celebrate victory over France, another competition has also reached its conclusion – the battle for “soft power”.

The Conversation

World Cup 2022: how sponsorship has become less about selling drinks and more about geopolitics

The Fifa men’s World Cup 2022 in Qatar is arguably the most political in history.

The Conversation

Music to score goals to? England – and Poles and Swiss – pin hopes on 90s hit

Gala’s Freed From Desire proved popular when Fifa asked each World Cup country to select songs to play over the PA when they score

The Guardian - UK

Qatar World Cup opening ceremony showed the BBC can do both sports and politics

Review: The BBC ignores World Cup opening ceremony in favour of discussion on Qatar

The Independent UK

Morgan Freeman helps open the controversial Qatar World Cup

‘We gather here as one big tribe’

The Independent UK

Viewers speechless after World Cup opening ceremony in Qatar as Morgan Freeman takes part

The opening ceremony got under way from the Al Bay Stadium this afternoon

Irish Mirror

Qatar kick off World Cup 2022 with Morgan Freeman and BTS star Jung Kook

Qatar raised the curtain on the most controversial World Cup in history with the help of Morgan Freeman and BTS singer Jung Kook at the opening ceremony.

Evening Standard

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Al Jazeera

When does World Cup 2022 start, what happens on opening day?

Starting date, opening match, opening ceremony and stadiums that will host the World Cup games.

The New Daily

K-pop super group BTS share meal and discuss spending ‘time apart’

K-pop sensation BTS have shocked fans in a video celebrating their ninth anniversary, telling fans they need a break and want to pursue solo projects.

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