Ticket availability for ‘BoA: One’s Own’ tour:
• ⚠️ TAIPEI (Nov. 23)
↳ 7 slots left (Area A)
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• 🟢 SINGAPORE (Nov. 30)
↳ VIP tickets still available
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*The JAKARTA stop has been cancelled
#BoA
#보아
💬 NCT Wish Sion revealed that BoA highlighted and advised that NCT Wish do an age-appropriate concept:
“She advised that she wanted us to do an age-appropriate concept […] As we grow older and mature, we plan to naturally sing songs that will fit our age.”
There’s been a lot of confusion re: what’s been happening with BoA, especially from non-fans who haven’t been following her closely.
While we can’t claim to know exactly what’s going on behind the scenes, we can provide some context.
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💬 Aaron Kwak (NU'EST Aron) and Joel Lane (BTL Jay) mentioned BoA in their podcast:
"I'm going to be very blunt: K-pop, all your faves, everybody, all of us — we would not exist if it wasn't for BoA [...] And that's coming from two people who were actually *in* K-pop."
Dreamcatcher and KARD lining up to hug BoA on ‘K-909’ 🫂
It started when KARD Jiwoo confessed that she was a big fan of BoA and asked for a hug. Dreamcatcher members said they were also big fans, so BoA told them to line up so she could give each of them a hug 🥺
#BoA
#보아
📲 240407 | boakwon IG story
“My contract is until 12/31/2025. Until then, I plan to happily do my best as BoA, the singer. Please don’t worry. I love you, Jumpings 💛”
#BoA
#보아
📸 241012 | Key (SHINee) posted a photo of him, BoA, and Yunho (TVXQ!) after BoA's concert, via his IG:
"The artists of my childhood
As a successful fan, I'm crying 🥲"
#BoA
#보아
[230527] KARD BM and BoA in 'K-909':
👤 Sunbaenim, do you still remember me?
🌟 When I was a judge on 'K-Pop Star,' you passed the audition in the States, and I brought you to Korea!
🌟 Matthew Kim! 🫵
👤 I've been imagining this moment for the past 12 years
#BoA
#보아
📲 230914 | BoA Weverse update
"Hi"
"This is hard ;;"
"I think the system needs to be improved. SM."
"The chat needs to feel like a chat. Where's the fun when the flow is just one-way..."
"I'll stop by from time to time. I can't see the reactions, it's no fun ;;"
#BoA
#보아
Daily reminder that BoA did NOT create GOT the Beat or Girls on Top.
She has EXPLICITLY said that she was ASKED to join the group and that, in fact, she was apprehensive of joining it.
💬 240302 | SHINee Taemin mentioned BoA during an interview with ELLE Japan:
“We [SHINee] were able to attain this sort of popularity in Japan thanks to the influence of BoA-senpai and Tohoshinki.”
Since at least February, BoA has been DIRECTLY addressing and speaking out against the constant harassment in interviews & her social media — something she has almost never done before in the 24 years she’s been active.
[220526]
#TVXQ
’s
#YUNHO
and
#CHANGMIN
visited
#BoA
’s rehearsals!
Caption (machine-translated): Awesome! They really came! 🫶 You guys are the best! I’m really moved
#보아 #동방신기
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#BoA
with
#TVXQ
’s
#YUNHO
and
#CHANGMIN
:
Caption (machine-translated): Thank you for coming to support me even with your busy schedule~~ 😍 Yunho-ya, shouldn’t we dance at least once..?? 🤭
#보아 #동방신기
BoA fans are not mad that she might retire.
We are mad that she's been getting harassed, to the point that it might be part of why she's hinting at retirement, and SM is doing nothing.
22 years ago, BoA debuted in Japan.
She would go on to sell millions + become the 1st Korean to top the Oricon charts since its founding in 1967 - making her the 1st Korean pop act to reach such heights outside her home country 🎉
#BoA
日本デビュー22周年
What everyone probably knows is that BoA hinted at retirement last Saturday. Just yesterday, she also removed all of her IG posts.
What people seem to miss is that BoA has also been at the receiving end of constant online harassment for months leading up to these events.
📝 BoA's participation as producer for NCT Wish's 'Steady':
"BoA focused on even the tiniest details and even added a rap section specifically for Riku, which wasn't part of the original demo for 'Steady'."
#BoA
#보아
[230527] BoA + Dreamcatcher + KARD's hug event 🫶
🙎♀️ I dreamt of becoming a singer because of you [BoA]. Can I give you a hug?
🙋🙋♀️: Me too!
🌟 Alright, line up!
🫂🫂🫂
🐥 Thank you, Jiwoo-ya! I'm not going to wash myself today 😆
#BoA
#보아
At 16, BoA won a Daesang and Bonsang at the Seoul Music Awards.
At 28, she won Record of the Year.
And now at 36, she’s been given the Legend Artist Award, alongside a Bonsang with GOT the Beat.
Congratulations to our
#BoA
! You deserve the world 🫶
[TW: death]
Sad news today, Jumpings. BoA’s older brother, Kwon Soon Wook, has passed away from cancer 🙏
Please keep BoA’s brother and her family in your prayers 💛
#BoA
#보아
23 years ago, BoA debuted in Japan.
With 6 consecutive
#1
albums & 7.6M+ physical records sold, BoA is the first Korean to top the Oricon charts & become a million seller in Japan. Her success there opened a new market for the Korean pop music industry.
[230527] BoA exposes her own + Hwasa's texting habits in the 'Dancing Queens on the Road' groupchat 🤭
🌟 The [DQOTR] unnies are all chattering in the group chat, then I just reply with "Haha." But the one who answers the least is Hwasa. Maknaes are like that 😆
#BoA
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#BoA
IG Post Update!
Caption: My best friend since I was 15 ❤️ Talkin’ all day like this, it’d be nice if we can stay this way*
*From Crystal Kay’s GIRLFRIEND: “Kouyatte futari de itsudatte Talkin'all day / Zutto kono mama de iraretara ii ne”
#보아
Dreamcatcher Sua on meeting BoA on 'K-909':
🐥 Today, I officially met BoA! When I was a student, my pencil case had 'BoA' written all over it. She's my role model.
🐥 In my previous company, there were assessments, where I sang around 30 songs; about 20 of them were BoA songs.
💬 NCT Wish on how they communicate with BoA:
• BoA speaks to the members in both Japanese and Korean
• The first time Riku met BoA, he stared at her for too long that she asked, “What are you looking at?” 😂
• Yushi and BoA occasionally text
Lots of people have implied that BoA fans can’t respect her decision to retire.
I think I can speak for most of the fandom: we are not mad that BoA might retire; we of all people KNOW how long & hard she’s worked, how much she’s been through.
Many of us grew up WITH her.
BoA’s IG story re: retirement came as a huge shock to fans.
Even in her most recent interviews and IG lives, BoA gave no indication that she wanted to retire; she has consistently said that she wants to keep performing and making music. She even shared some of her future plans.
Fans hoped that SM would take legal action bc of their repeated promises to do so (w/c BoA herself also reposted). But nothing.
They’ve been as silent as they were these past 24 years. The FIRST & ONLY time legal action was taken to defend BoA was in 2020. 20yrs into her career.
BoA's credits for her comeback single '정말, 없니? (Emptiness)':
✅ Lyrics by BoA
✅ Composition by BoA
✅ Arrangement by BoA
✅ Background vocals by BoA
✅ Recorded by BoA at her home studio (놀이터)
#BoA
#보아
💬 Aaron Kwak (NU'EST Aron) and Joel Lane (BTL Jay) mentioned BoA in their podcast:
"I'm going to be very blunt: K-pop, all your faves, everybody, all of us — we would not exist if it wasn't for BoA [...] And that's coming from two people who were actually *in* K-pop."
Fans have organized protests objecting to SM’s lack of support
No legal action was taken even when BoA was 13 & getting called LSM’s concubine. Not in 2021 when she was getting slut-shamed & death wishes. Not even now when she’s visibly showing how the harassment’s affecting her
📹 Sooyoung (SNSD) on BoA in Japan during the early 2000s:
👤 BoA was at such a high level — she was called ‘utahime,’ one of the top diva singers in Japan
👤 Wherever you went, you could hear BoA’s songs. If you opened the TV, BoA was there. It made me so proud.
#BoA
#보아
📝 240514 | BoA went on IG live!
• 🚨 BoA will hold a concert in Korea this October!
• She was on her way to SM to film something for her YouTube channel
• It’s the longest break she’s taken since her debut - she’s been resting a lot 🫂
#BoA
#보아
It’s obviously well within BoA’s right to change her mind about her own career, but seeing that the news came a week after she got huge flak for defending herself, many fans interpret her post to be a result of the constant harassment from the past few months/years
SM once again issues a vague statement claiming that they will pursue legal action in defense of BoA, who they recognize is suffering great mental anguish.
As usual: no targets named, no specifics.
This statement means nothing until we've seen real progress & action.
[230527] BoA and Dreamcatcher Yoohyeon dancing 'My Name':
🐶 The first dance I learned when I was a trainee was actually BoA-sunbaenim's 'My Name'
🐶 I feel nervous doing it alone... so is it alright if you [BoA-sunbaenim] join me...?
#BoA
#보아
🌟 People would treat me like I'm only a business. After each performance, that would make me feel emptier and lonelier.
🌟 That's why I felt healed when I performed with the unnies in Jinhae. I was no longer a director; I was one of the maknaes.
#BoA
#보아
@BoA_Official
Stop telling us you will sue and start actually doing the damn suing.
You say that BoA is suffering from severe mental anguish, but you don't recognize that it is because of your negligence, and you post a statement as vague as all the ones you've posted before. How insulting.
📰 231016 | Crystal Kay on her friendship with BoA, in an interview for
@Forbes
:
"BoA is my sister. I believe she is the pioneer of K-pop in Japan [...] We were just two kids, becoming friends and finding familiarity in each other in this industry.”
#BoA
#보아
Happy birthday, BoA! 👑🌟
Our No.1 and Only One, you are so loved — please stay happy and healthy always! We'll always be by your side ❤️🔥🫶
#HappyBoADay
#보아야생일축하해
⬇️
#BoA
commented on the IG post of
#SNSD
's
#Yuri
BoA: Yuri-ya, sing 'Listen to My Heart'!
Yuri: "What’re you looking at? / What kind of future are you picturing with your eyes narrowed, / On the other side of the wind in your face?" [this is the 1st verse of LTMH]
#유리 #보아
📹 240419 | BoA for Esquire Korea:
“[BoA’s 2017 MAMAs performance of] CAMO is still being talked about as legendary.”
↳ 🌟 You should’ve [said so] when it first came out! Everyone, why do you always only appreciate it a long time after 🥲
[230126] Hyoyeon on GOT the Beat’s first dance practice ever:
“There was a lot of tension. We were amazed by one another. I would keep an eye trained on BoA-unnie, my idol, and imitate her on how to look cooler. Red Velvet and aespa would do the same to us [SNSD and BoA]”
📝 A fan floated the idea of a collaboration between Asian dance pop divas BoA (🇰🇷), Agnez Mo (🇮🇩), and Sarah Geronimo (🇵🇭)!
Agnez Mo and Sarah G have responded and seem to already be in talks!
#BoA
#보아
📝 BoA donated ₩50,000,000 to children with cancer on Children’s Day:
“Every child deserves happiness, so I wanted to help those in need, even by a little. Since I received a lot of love when I debuted at a young age, I wanted to repay that love with this donation.”
BoA complaining about social media with fromis_9 😂
🌟 I have no idea how to use SNS! I don't know what to post on my story or my feed. I'm too old to copy Gen Zs. I'm Y2K!
👥 But Y2K is the trend now!
👤 I saw your 4-cut photos on IG - they were amazing!
#K909
#BoA
#보아
📝 5 BoA albums are now listed as Melon Classics or Masterpieces (명반):
• No. 1 (2002)
• Atlantis Princess (2003)
• Girls on Top (2005)
• Kiss My Lips (2015)
• Better (2020)
#BoA
#보아
Congratulations to Jimin! 💛💜We'd like to clarify some things for both fandoms:
• BoA topped the Oricon Daily AND Weekly Singles charts in 2005
• Jimin topped the Oricon Daily and Weekly DIGITAL Singles charts, NOT the Daily and Weekly Singles charts - they are different
BoA and her brother were very close and bonded due to their love for music 🎶
They even worked together, with Soon Wook directing her in the MVs for ‘The Shadow’ and ‘Only One.’ 🎥
He also directed
#RedVelvet
’s ‘Be Natural,’
#MAMAMOO
’s ‘Piano Man,’ & many more. 🎤
#BoA
#보아
The ‘Dancing Queens on the Road’ members taking care of BoA 🥺
• Hyori tucking her to sleep
• Hwasa & Junghwa shutting the curtains, getting her a blanket + pillow
• Hwasa & Junghwa taking care of her when she wakes up
#BoA
#보아
📹 241013 | Yuri (SNSD) attended ‘BoA: One’s Own in Seoul’ (Day 2) today, via her IG story!
“I’m trembling! Kwon-unnie, Kwon-sunbaenim, it’s an honor 🌟🐥”
“Unnie, I miss you, come out now! 🌟🐥”
#BoA
#보아
@kabitamam
The hate trains started since late 2020 actually: from people discrediting her during the MAMAs, to 'Better' promos getting cut short, to SWF, to the slutshaming in SMF, to 3rd & 4th gen fandoms saying she was exploiting her juniors in GOT, etc. They just ramped up this year.
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#BoA
during the Seoul Music Awards:
“We didn’t expect a [GOT the Beat] comeback either [laughs]. It was easy working with the members since they’re all professionals. I would feel lonely sitting alone at award shows, but I'm a little relieved to be with them today.”
📹 Sooyoung (SNSD) reveals that BoA visited her while she was still part of Route 0 (her group pre-SNSD) to cheer her on:
👤 She told us [stuff like,] 'Keep working hard!' and 'It’s tough at your age*’
(*Sooyoung was 12-13, while BoA would've been 15-16)
[230402] SNSD Seohyun attended ‘THE BoA: Musicality’ in Busan! 💗
“Maybe it was us who loved BoA-unnie since the start.* 💛
Thank you for giving us the coolest, emotion-filled concert, unnie - you’re the best 🫶🏻”
🔗
#BoA
#보아
#THEBoAMusicality
[230312] BoA announced in her concert today that she will hold an additional ‘THE BoA: Musicality’ concert in Busan this April!
#BoA
#보아
#THEBoAMusicality