When your latest project—in this case, your 11th EP, Between One And Two—sells more than one million units in preorders before it has even released, you might not blame anyone for assuming you are riding high. Especially because, not just in South Korea, but in the world over, success and happiness are branded as basically inextricable. If you have the former, you have the latter, right?
But for Jihyo, Nayeon, Jeongyeon, Momo, Sana, Mina, Dahyun, Chaeyoung, and Tzuyu—the nine 23-to 27-year-old stars of TWICE—there’s no reason to maintain that charade, despite K-pop’s reputation for nearinescapable control of its messaging, and its reluctance in the past to acknowledge or accommodate the challenges of global fame.
All that shifted in 2019 when
