All seven members of the worldwide mega-popular K-pop band BTS are serving within the South Korean military, the band's label and management company, huge Hit, proclaimed Monday.
huge Hit, says that BTS plans to come back along as a bunch "around 2025," in any case seven members complete their service.
"Since the creation of BTS over 10 years ago, the band has up to international success, broken records, and catapulted K-Pop into the global stratosphere," the huge Hit statement reads in partBigHitHIT MUSIC has centered on the milestone moment once it might be attainable to respect the requirements of the country and for these healthy young men to serve with their countrymen, and that' now."
huge Hit says that the primary BTS member to enter the military is the group's oldest performer: Kim Seok-jin, who is understood as Jin. The 29-year-old plans to enlist as presently as his solo project is extended later this month.
beneath South Korea's mobilization system, the country needs all healthy men to serve a minimum of eighteen months within the militia by age 28, due to progress threats from North Korea. There are exemptions offered for sure athletes and acting artists, particularly those operating in classical and ancient music.
once Jin turned twenty-eight in 2020, the govt offered him a tw0-year delay in getting into the military in recognition of BTS' efforts to "enhance Korea's international image." He was one of the primary K-pop stars to be offered such a reprieve.
In June, the band proclaimed via video that it had been taking a prospect of then-unspecified length. The group's rapper RM, conjointly referred to as Kim Nam-joon, aforesaid in that video, "After ten years of living as BTS and dealing with all our schedules, it's physically not possible on behalf of me to mature anymore."