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"textContent": "When pop superstars BTS announced a temporary hiatus in 2022, it exposed a tension at the heart of their global success. As I wrote at the time, the world’s biggest K-pop group had become entangled in South Korea’s competing priorities: cultural soft power on the one hand, and its national security obligations on the other. […]\n\nThe post BTS: The Return shows a global band renegotiating identity and nationhood appeared first on Interaksyon.",
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