Six other younger BTS members are to join the military in coming years one after another, meaning that the world's biggest boy band must take a hiatus, likely for a few years. Their enlistments have prompted a fierce domestic debate over whether it’s time to revise the country’s conscri...
BTS has announced that the band will begin a hiatus through 2025 while each member completes their required military service, despite previous buzz suggesting they may receive an exemption.
But Jin is 30 years old—how does it make any sense that he’s only serving his military service now? Well, it turns out that in 2020, the South Korean government passed abillallowing globally recognised K-pop artistes to postpone their enlistment age to 30. BTS, boasting almost 70 milli...
2023–2024: Military enlistments, Bastions' OST, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS and "Take Two"On February 26, 2023, BigHit Music announced that J-Hope applied for the termination of his enlistment postponement and will soon start his military service.[94] On April 1, 2023, ...
2023–2024: Military enlistments, Bastions' OST, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS and "Take Two"On February 26, 2023, BigHit Music announced that J-Hope applied for the termination of his enlistment postponement and will soon start his military service.[94] On April 1, 2023, ...
No, BTS did not break up before they began their military enlistments. They did, however, go on hiatus. In June 2022, BTS announced thatthey would be taking a breakto pursue their solo careers and projects. DuringBTS’ Festa dinner,which celebrates their founding, RM said that while they...
Fans have been getting tired of seeing the phrase “Hello, This is BigHit,” which has been used to announce everything from a member testing positive for COVID-19 to updates about BTS’s military enlistments. “Hello This is Bighit Music” is the only music that scares me in ...
SEOUL -- K-pop idol J-Hope was discharged from the military on Thursday, becoming the second member of BTS to finish mandatory enlistment in South Korea. J-Hope walked out of the military camp in Wonju, in Gangwon Province just east of Seoul, in hi...
J-Hope then announced his official enlistment for mandatory military service, per his record label. While he was in the process of enrollment, music was still a priority; his single “on the street” dropped on March 3, 2023, just over a month before he enlisted on April 18....
This will be quite a treat for BTS fans, to say the least, since the group hasn’t performed live together as a full unit since April of 2022 in Las Vegas, prior to the start of their individual military enlistments. Since then, they’ve each performed various one-off shows in support...