Ten years in, The Rose are ready for something new. ROSETOPIA, their upcoming world tour, kicks off in June and marks a decade that took them from Seoul to Coachella, through military service, a reunion, and a run of records that built one of K-pop's most devoted global fanbases. After the final show, the band will step back. It’s not a split – they're emphatic about that – but a pause to grow individually before returning as something more.

The timing makes the tour feel different. WOOSUNG, DOJOON, HAJOON and JAEHYEONG have spent the last few months looking back — their documentary Back To Me laid out the full arc of what they've built — and now they're turning back toward the stage one more time before stepping away. "We've been working really hard to make sure we can truly enjoy the shows," they say, "and share that happiness with you." That sincerity has always been something that sets The Rose apart.

The new album, ROSE, arrives ahead of the tour and feels designed for exactly this moment. The band experimented with sounds they hadn't touched before, but the identity stays intact — whoever hears it, they say, will know immediately that it's them. Lead single "Blue Moon" was chosen specifically for the fans; a pre-release written, in their words, for Black Roses. As for the record as a whole? They're leaving it deliberately open. "We want to leave it up to each person's own emotions," they say. After a decade of music rooted in healing, it's exactly the kind of record that earns a rest.

What comes back on the other side of this break is, for now, undefined. But the intention is clear enough. "We want our fans to feel like, 'Oh, this is why The Rose took that break,'" they say. "Something new, but still unmistakably The Rose." For a band that has spent ten years following their instincts and building something real, that feels like a promise.