{"id":213924,"date":"2025-12-30T20:49:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T20:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/30\/the-biggest-k-pop-controversies-of-2025-newjeans-bts-more\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T20:49:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T20:49:01","slug":"the-biggest-k-pop-controversies-of-2025-newjeans-bts-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/30\/the-biggest-k-pop-controversies-of-2025-newjeans-bts-more\/","title":{"rendered":"The Biggest K-Pop Controversies of 2025: NewJeans, BTS &#038; More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifeandstylemag.com\/posts\/why-danielle-was-removed-from-newjeans-after-k-pop-battle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">K-pop<\/a> in 2025 was definitely not without drama \u2014 and honestly? It feels like the industry has never been more controversial or scrutinized. This year was packed with just about everything: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifeandstylemag.com\/posts\/why-danielle-was-removed-from-newjeans-after-k-pop-battle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">major agency disputes<\/a> that shook the industry, headline-making legal scandals involving top stars like <strong>Kim Soo-hyun<\/strong>, and intense backlash over cultural and political missteps that sparked global conversations. Add in the long-awaited full return of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifeandstylemag.com\/tags\/bts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BTS<\/a> \u2014 instantly shifting the entire landscape \u2014 and it\u2019s safe to say 2025 didn\u2019t give fans a moment to rest.<\/p>\n<p>So, what were some of the biggest stories in K-pop this year? <strong>Scroll through our gallery below to break it down:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifeandstylemag.com\/posts\/the-biggest-k-pop-controversies-of-2025-newjeans-bts-more\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>K-pop in 2025 was definitely not without drama \u2014 and honestly? It feels like the industry has never been more controversial or scrutinized. This year was packed with just about everything: major agency disputes that shook the industry, headline-making legal scandals involving top stars like Kim Soo-hyun, and intense backlash over cultural and political missteps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":213925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-213924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}