There has been fervent speculation ever since it was announced on April 3rd that TVXQ would be stopping/pausing their group activties and focusing on their individual activities for the time being. Nothing has really changed since that official statement released by Avex Japan. The TVXQ members have however released another statement that said, "We are really sorry for making our fans and our affilates worried. We are now working hard for our individual activites so please continue to support us in future." TVXQ's fanclub, BigEast has also maintained that it will remain as it is, "Even though group activities have been suspended, the fanclub will remain." The word disbandment has been bandied around by the Korean media but it won't really be made official because it's a sensitive word that would effectively end TVXQ coming back together as a group. By indicating that they are stopping/pausing group activities, there's hope that they will be back together as one entity in future.