BTS looks to reunite this year as 2 more members finish their military service

K-pop superstars RM and V are the latest members of BTS to beryllium discharged from South Korea’s subject aft fulfilling their mandatory service

CHUNCHEON, South Korea -- K-pop superstars RM and V are the latest members of BTS to beryllium discharged from South Korea's subject aft fulfilling their mandatory service.

They each saluted upon their merchandise Tuesday successful Chuncheon City arsenic astir 200 fans, immoderate of whom traveled from Mexico, Turkey and Brazil, cheered.

Reina Lorena Quintero Sevilla spent astir 18 hours connected a level from Mexico City. "I swear, it didn’t consciousness that agelong due to the fact that we’re truthful excited to beryllium here, to ticker the boys get released, excited to beryllium successful South Korea, successful the hometowns of our boys, who we love, who we adore,” she said.

RM and V began their service successful December 2023, portion 3 different BTS members — Jin, J-Hope and Suga — were already months into their conscription.

Jin, the oldest subordinate of the K-pop supergroup, was discharged from the service in June 2024. J-Hope was discharged successful October. Jimin and JungKook are scheduled to beryllium discharged Wednesday.

The seventh member, Suga, is fulfilling his duty arsenic a societal work agent, an alternate to subject service. He is to beryllium released aboriginal this month.

The 7 BTS members program to reunite arsenic a radical sometime successful 2025.

In South Korea, each able-bodied men aged 18 to 28 are required by instrumentality to execute 18-21 months of subject work nether a conscription strategy meant to deter aggression from rival North Korea.

The instrumentality gives peculiar exemptions to athletes, classical and accepted musicians, and ballet and different dancers if they person obtained apical prizes successful definite competitions and are assessed to person enhanced nationalist prestige. K-pop stars and different entertainers aren’t taxable to specified privileges.

The BTS members were capable to postpone their service, however, aft the National Assembly revised the Military Service Act, allowing K-pop stars to hold their enlistment until property 30.

There was heated nationalist statement implicit whether to connection peculiar exemptions for BTS members, until the group’s absorption bureau announced successful 2022 that each 7 members would fulfill their duties.

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Sherman reported from New York.

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