BTS will return in spring 2026 with a new album and world tour | CNN
Their reunion? It’s smooth like butter. The K-pop septet BTS will return in spring 2026 with a new album and world tour. They also announced a world tour, their first in nearly four years. The news arrives a few weeks after BTS superstars RM, V, Jimin and Jung Kook were discharged from South Korea’s military after fulfilling their mandatory service.South Korea’s law gives special exemptions to athletes, classical and traditional musicians, and ballet and other dancers if they have obtained top prizes in certain competitions and are assessed to have enhanced national prestige.The members of K-pop group BTS visit the "Today" show at Rockefeller Plaza in New York on February 21, 2020.K-pop band BTS members RM, left, and V salute after being discharged from a mandatory military service in Chuncheon, South Korea, Tuesday, June 10, 2025.