South Korean K-pop group TWICE poses for a photo after an interview in Seoul, South Korea, on Nov.... 24 and will bring them in February to five U.S. cities, including Los Angeles, New York and Atlanta, TWICE released their first full English-language single" The Feels" in October, which was their first song to debut on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.... TWICE is a household name in South Korea and Japan--where the band regularly tops the Oricon music charts, Japan's equivalent of Billboard....

Any admission of a romantic relationship or a partner was scandalous to fans.... Idols being in private relationships may be" bad for business", according to sociologist Patrick Williams of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore." They want to sell idols that appear to be, at least in an imaginary sense, romantically obtainable.... There is good reason for being cautious....