K-pop stars release book

— I got here at nine o’clock and I finally got hold of it! says Aqilah, a fan from Malaysia, on the spot at a bookstore in Seoul.

The book is also released in the US and during May, from the time the book was available for pre-order, it ended up on the list of the most pre-ordered books on both Amazon and the bookstore chain Barnes & Noble.

The book is released on the occasion of the South Korean band’s tenth anniversary and summarizes their career.

Last year, BTS announced that they would be taking a break for a few years. Several of the band’s seven members could no longer defer South Korea’s mandatory military service.

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