All BTS members, starting with Jin, will join the military, BigHit Music said.
All members of the K-pop band will serve the required military service, starting with Jin, 29, who will be called for duty at the end of the month.After a heated debate in South Korea on whether to change laws to exempt members of K-pop band BTS from serving their mandatory military duty, their management company, BigHit Music, made a surprise announcement that BTS will enlist after all.
"The members of BTS are currently moving forward with plans to fulfill their military service," starting with the eldest member, Jin, who is turning 30 this year, BigHit Music told ABC News Monday. BTS attends iHeartRadio 102.7 KIIS FM's Jingle Ball 2021 presented by Capital One at The Forum on December 03, 2021, in Los Angeles, California.Almost all South Korean men are required to enlist for up to two years when they're between the ages of 18 to 28.
Jin was able to request delayed conscription until the end of this year, thanks to a revised law passed in 2020 in favor of BTS. That law allowed pop culture artists to postpone the draft if the president of South Korea awarded them an Order of Cultural Merits. BTS members were the only male K-pop artists to receive that honor.
Monday's surprise announcement came during a heated debate about whether to change the current conscription exemption laws to include pop artists like BTS. All South Korean men are required to serve in the military for at least 18 months, with an exception for global award-winning athletes and classical musicians recommended by the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism to replace the military duty with alternative services.
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