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 accountable for the internationally profitable Okay-pop band, launched an announcement on Monday confirming the member’s upcoming miliary service.

For years, BTS followers have referred to 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 economic system and nation’s status.

Nonetheless, 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 primarily based 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 might pause their group actions to pursue solo tasks.

The break now permits the members to fulfil the South Korean navy requirement for all males underneath 30 to serve between 18 and 21 months. (The members of BTS have been all born between 1993 and 1997.)

Refusing navy service is a criminal offense in South Korea that carries a attainable jail sentence and damaging social stigma.

The South Korean authorities has lengthy since upheld that navy service have to be obligatory to guard towards attainable assault from North Korea. The 2 international locations are nonetheless technically at warfare 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 assist 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 obligation by being of service to the nation they name dwelling,” wrote BTS’ company.

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

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