The longstanding debate is over — the seven members of BTS will fulfil their authorized responsibility to carry out army service in South Korea.
BigHit Music, the administration firm chargeable for the internationally profitable Ok-pop band, launched a assertion on Monday confirming the member’s upcoming miliary service.
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For years, BTS followers have known as for the members — Park Jimin, Kim Seok-jin (Jin), Jeon Jung-kook, Kim Nam-joon (RM), Min Yoon-gi (Suga), Jung Ho-seok (J-Hope) and Kim Tae-hyung (V) — to be exempt from necessary service for his or her contributions to the South Korean economic system and nation’s popularity.
Nevertheless, as is necessary of all able-bodied South Korean males, the members of BTS will every serve virtually two years within the army.
“Group member Jin will provoke the method as quickly as his schedule for his solo launch is concluded on the finish of October,” BTS’ administration wrote within the assertion. “He’ll then observe the enlistment process of the Korean authorities. Different members of the group plan to hold out their army service based mostly on their very own particular person plans.”
The 2-time Grammy nominated band BTS will regroup “round 2025” when all seven males have completed army service, their administration claimed.
In June, the members of BTS introduced they’d pause their group actions to pursue solo initiatives.
The break now permits the members to fulfil the South Korean army requirement for all males beneath 30 to serve between 18 and 21 months. (The members of BTS have been all born between 1993 and 1997.)
Refusing army service is against the law in South Korea that carries a potential jail sentence and adverse social stigma.
The South Korean authorities has lengthy since upheld that army service should be necessary to guard in opposition to potential assault from North Korea. The 2 international locations are nonetheless technically at battle and have been because the Nineteen Fifties.
There have solely been a really choose few South Koreans exempted from army service due to their worldwide careers, together with pianist Seong-jin Cho and Tottenham footballer Son Heung-min.
Earlier this yr, BTS launched their first anthology album Proof.
“We help and encourage our artists and are past proud that they are going to every now have time to discover their distinctive pursuits and do their responsibility by being of service to the nation they name dwelling,” wrote BTS’ company.
The company referenced the BTS track But To Come (The Most Lovely Second), writing that the ballad “is greater than a monitor from their newest album, it’s a promise, there’s rather more but to come back within the years forward from BTS.”
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