In which year did BTS debut?

BTS debuted in 2013, beginning its career in South Korea with the single album 2 Cool 4 Skool.

The group released the album on June 12, 2013, and performed its first televised stage the next day on M Countdown. That performance featured “No More Dream,” a forceful hip-hop track about the pressure placed on young people to follow conventional ideas of success.

BTS had been formed under Big Hit Entertainment, a smaller agency compared with the major K-pop companies of the period. Its early “school trilogy” focused on student life, ambition, social expectations and the frustrations of adolescence. The members also had unusually prominent roles in writing and producing their music.

A common mix-up is confusing BTS’s debut with its later international breakthrough. The group gained major global attention several years afterward, especially through releases such as Wings and Love Yourself: Her, but its official group debut was firmly in 2013. Its Japanese debut came later, in December 2014.