{"id":2234432,"date":"2026-01-14T13:44:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T13:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2234432"},"modified":"2026-01-14T13:44:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T13:44:18","slug":"k-pop-singer-boa-leaves-sm-entertainment-after-25-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/k-pop-singer-boa-leaves-sm-entertainment-after-25-years\/","title":{"rendered":"K-pop singer BoA leaves SM Entertainment after 25 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>K-pop pioneer BoA, 39, is closing one of the longest-running partnerships in the industry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>On Monday (Jan 12), South Korean label SM Entertainment announced that BoA concluded her contract on Dec 31, 2025, marking the end of a 25-year relationship, which began when she was just 13 years old.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>The entertainment company released a statement saying that the decision came \u201cafter extensive and in-depth discussions\u201d with the artiste.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>They paid tribute to BoA\u2019s legacy, describing her as an \u201cicon of global expansion\u201d and the \u201cStar of Asia\u201d, who pioneered the Korean Wave long before K-pop became a worldwide phenomenon, and became a \u201crole model for countless junior artistes\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>\u201cFor 25 years, BoA has been, without question, the pride, joy, and symbol of SM.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>SM Entertainment added that they will continue to support BoA in her future endeavours. They also released a tribute video, entitled \u201cYou\u2019re still our No 1 BoA\u201d, a nod to one of BoA\u2019s most popular songs, No 1.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\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 cnalifestyle.channelnewsasia.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>K-pop pioneer BoA, 39, is closing one of the longest-running partnerships in the industry. On Monday (Jan 12), South Korean label SM Entertainment announced that BoA concluded her contract on Dec 31, 2025, marking the end of a 25-year relationship, which began when she was just 13 years old.\u00a0 The entertainment company released a statement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2234433,"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":[22367,23842,306168],"class_list":["post-2234432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-celebrity","tag-k-pop","tag-south-korea"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/K-pop-singer-BoA-leaves-SM-Entertainment-after-25-years.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234432","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=2234432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2234434,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234432\/revisions\/2234434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2234433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2234432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2234432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2234432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}