{"id":2231476,"date":"2026-01-12T11:51:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T11:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2231476"},"modified":"2026-01-12T11:51:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T11:51:18","slug":"boa-concludes-25-years-with-sm-entertainment-chooses-not-to-renew-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/boa-concludes-25-years-with-sm-entertainment-chooses-not-to-renew-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"BoA concludes 25 years with SM Entertainment, chooses not to renew contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article_body\">\n<p>                    <!-- 20240718 &#44592;&#51088;&#48512;&#48516; &#52628;&#44032; --><\/p>\n<div class=\"topArea\">\n<p>\n                            <span class=\"article-publish-date\"><br \/>\n                                Published: 12 Jan. 2026, 17:03<\/span><br \/>\n                            <span class=\"article-publish-date\"><br \/>\n                                    Updated: 12 Jan. 2026, 18:40<\/span>\n                            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>                    <!--\/\/20240718 &#44592;&#51088;&#48512;&#48516; &#52628;&#44032; end --><\/p>\n<div class=\"article_body_container\">\n<div class=\"ab_photo photo_center ab_zoom\" style=\"width: 820px;\">\n<div class=\"image\">                              <span class=\"mask\"\/>                  <\/div>\n<p class=\"caption\">Singer BoA [SM ENTERTAINMENT]<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>        \u00a0  <br \/>   Singer BoA will not be renewing her contract with SM Entertainment, the agency said Monday.  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>   BoA wrapped up a 25-year chapter with SM Entertainment on Dec. 31, 2025.  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>   The singer debuted in 2000 at the age of 13, releasing hit songs such as \u201cAtlantis Princess\u201d (2003), \u201cEat You Up\u201d (2008), \u201cHurricane Venus\u201d (2010) and \u201cOnly One\u201d (2012).  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>   \u201cWe are honored to have been part of every step of BoA\u2019s dazzling journey, from her remarkable debut that rewrote the history of K-pop to her growth into a chart-topping artist and accomplished producer,\u201d SM said in a statement.  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>   \u201cFor 25 years, BoA has been a source of pride and a defining symbol of SM Entertainment.\u201d  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>   BoA has not announced a new agency.  <\/p>\n<p><i>This article was originally written in Korean and translated by a bilingual reporter with the help of generative AI tools. 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All AI-assisted translations are reviewed and refined by our newsroom.<\/i><br \/>BY SHIN MIN-HEE [<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/koreajoongangdaily.joins.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection\" class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"9deef5f4f3b3f0f4f3f5f8f8ddf7f2f2f3fafcf3fab3fef2b3f6ef\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>                    <!-- promoted &#49884;&#51089; --><br \/>\n                    <!-- promoted &#45149;--><\/p>\n<p>                    <!-- &#49888;&#44508; &#48708;&#46356;&#50724; &#44305;&#44256; 250813 --><br \/>\n                    <!-- world &#49440;&#51201;&#50857; --><br \/>\n                    <!-- &#49888;&#44508; &#48708;&#46356;&#50724; &#44305;&#44256; &#51333;&#47308; -->\n                <\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/ko_KR\/all.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source koreajoongangdaily.joins.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published: 12 Jan. 2026, 17:03 Updated: 12 Jan. 2026, 18:40 Singer BoA [SM ENTERTAINMENT] \u00a0 Singer BoA will not be renewing her contract with SM Entertainment, the agency said Monday. \u00a0 BoA wrapped up a 25-year chapter with SM Entertainment on Dec. 31, 2025. \u00a0 The singer debuted in 2000 at the age of 13, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2231477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2231476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/BoA-concludes-25-years-with-SM-Entertainment-chooses-not-to.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2231476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2231478,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231476\/revisions\/2231478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2231477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2231476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2231476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2231476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}