BTS member j‑hope begins the process of enlisting in the South Korean military

The sec­ond mem­ber of South Kore­an group BTS, the first K‑pop band to be nom­i­nat­ed for a Gram­my, has begun enlist­ment pro­ce­dures for com­pul­so­ry mil­i­tary ser­vice, two months after the group’s old­est mem­ber began mil­i­tary ser­vice. Lat­er Mon­day, exec­u­tives confirmed.

The BTS mem­ber said last year that he would enlist when Jin turned 30, and he enlist­ed in Decem­ber after defer­ring his enlist­ment as long as he could.

An offi­cial from BigHit Music, which man­ages the group, said on the 1st that the sec­ond mem­ber, 29-year-old J‑Hope (real name Jung Hoseok), request­ed to can­cel the post­pone­ment of his enlistment.

A state­ment was released say­ing, “We would like to inform our fans that J‑Hope has start­ed the mil­i­tary enlist­ment process.” “Please con­tin­ue to love and sup­port J‑Hope until he returns safe­ly after com­plet­ing his mil­i­tary service.”

All able-bod­ied South Kore­an men between the ages of 18 and 28 are required to serve in the mil­i­tary for approx­i­mate­ly two years.

A 2019 revi­sion to the law allowed glob­al­ly rec­og­nized K‑pop stars to delay enlist­ment until the age of 30. Some law­mak­ers have pushed for a dras­tic reduc­tion in their mil­i­tary ser­vice, sim­i­lar to what is required of Olympic and Asian Games medal­ists and some clas­si­cal musi­cians, but the effort has made lit­tle progress. do not have.

South Kore­a’s defense min­is­ter has said it would be pos­si­ble for BTS mem­bers to per­form abroad while serv­ing in the mil­i­tary. Many artists have been des­ig­nat­ed as such “enter­tain­ment soldiers.”

In a sep­a­rate state­ment on Mon­day, BigHit said j‑hope would be releas­ing a solo sin­gle titled “on the street” on Fri­day, say­ing it was writ­ten as a “gift” to share his feel­ings for his fans.

The sev­en-mem­ber group has been pur­su­ing solo projects since announc­ing a hia­tus in June.

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