BTS members will undertake military service in South Korea, management confirms

BTS’s seven members are to start out phasing into their service (Image: Getty)

Members of Ok-pop band BTS will fulfil their requirement to undertake obligatory army service in South Korea, the group’s company has confirmed.

Oldest member Jin, 29, can be first, administration group Hybe mentioned on Monday.

‘All different members can even serve obligatory army responsibility in keeping with their plans,’ they revealed in a regulatory submitting.

All able-bodied males in South Korea are required to carry out between 18 and 21 months of army service after their 18th birthday and by 28 on the newest.

Nevertheless, exemptions have been made prior to now for prize-winning athletes, dancers and classical musicians who've been seen as boosting the nation’s profile internationally.

In 2020, South Korea’s parliament handed a invoice to permit its Ok-pop stars to delay their nationwide service till the age of 30.

Because the oldest member of the band, Jin would be the first to enlist (Image: Han Myung-Gu/WireImage)

The opposite members of BTS are Suga, 29, RM and J-Hope, each 28, Jimin and V, each 26, and Jungkook, 25.

In June the band induced a frenzy when it was reported that they'd be happening hiatus, because of the English translation of the YouTube video they launched for FESTA, which is a part of an annual celebration of their founding.

After releasing a three-disc anthology album titled Proof – which options 48 tracks, together with a few of their largest hits – the band mentioned within the clip that they'd undertake occasional actions collectively earlier than returning formally as a gaggle.

BTS have turn into essentially the most profitable Ok-pop band exterior their dwelling nation (Image: Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Put up by way of Getty Pictures)

A press release from Hybe shortly after clarified that they'd nonetheless be engaged on tasks as a gaggle, in addition to individually, sharing, by way of AP: ‘BTS should not taking a hiatus.

‘Members can be focusing extra on solo tasks right now.’

Rapper J-Hope subsequently grew to become the primary BTS star to announce and launch a solo album, Jack within the Field, in July.

Admitting to nerves at being the one to go first, he informed Rolling Stone: ‘It’s half nervousness, half pleasure. Since I’m the primary one to go solo, I really feel a way of accountability and there’s undoubtedly some strain as properly.’

J-Hope was the primary to launch a solo album with Jack within the Field (Image: Erika Goldring/WireImage)

The entire seven members will undertake their army service ‘in keeping with their plans’ (Image: Frederic J. Brown/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)

He continued: ‘Jack within the Field is stuffed solely with issues I personally needed to do, nearly to the purpose the place I fear to myself, “Did I focus an excessive amount of on solely what I needed to do?”‘

On Saturday, Jin grew to become the second member to announce his solo challenge with a solo single releasing quickly – presumably earlier than he joins up for his army service.

‘I obtained the chance to work with somebody I like, so a single will come out quickly,’ Jin informed the band’s followers throughout their big But to Come live performance in Busan, South Korea over the weekend, in keeping with Billboard.

J-Hope additionally addressed the band’s future, telling the enthusiastic ARMY, the group’s followers, on the present: ‘I feel we’re in a part the place we want your belief.’