BTS to enlist in South Korean navy and regroup ‘round 2025’ – Nationwide

The longstanding debate is over — the seven members of BTS will fulfil their authorized obligation to carry out navy service in South Korea.

BigHit Music, the administration firm chargeable for the internationally profitable Okay-pop band, launched a press release on Monday confirming the member’s upcoming miliary service.

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 obligatory service for his or her contributions to the South Korean financial system and nation’s fame.

Nevertheless, as is obligatory of all able-bodied South Korean males, the members of BTS will every serve virtually two years within the navy.

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“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 navy 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 navy 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 navy requirement for all males beneath 30 to serve between 18 and 21 months. (The members of BTS had been all born between 1993 and 1997.)

Refusing navy service is against the law in South Korea that carries a attainable jail sentence and detrimental social stigma.

The South Korean authorities has lengthy since upheld that navy service should be obligatory to guard in opposition to attainable assault from North Korea. The 2 international locations are nonetheless technically at struggle and have been for the reason that Nineteen Fifties.

There have solely been a really choose few South Koreans exempted from navy 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 may every now have time to discover their distinctive pursuits and do their obligation by being of service to the nation they name dwelling,” wrote BTS’ company.

The company referenced the BTS tune But To Come (The Most Lovely Second), writing that the ballad “is greater than a observe from their newest album, it’s a promise, there’s way more but to come back within the years forward from BTS.”

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