{"id":22304,"date":"2022-02-20T10:23:23","date_gmt":"2022-02-20T18:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=22304"},"modified":"2023-04-15T00:16:17","modified_gmt":"2023-04-15T07:16:17","slug":"bts-in-the-military-fans-worried-as-time-passes-and-their-military-service-is-due","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/bts-in-the-military-fans-worried-as-time-passes-and-their-military-service-is-due\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS in the military? Fans worried as time passes and their military service is due"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With <strong>BTS<\/strong>\u2019 member <strong>J-Hope<\/strong>\u2019s recent 28th birthday, a question has risen between fans, who seem to be worried about the group\u2019s future as they will irremediably have to face the obligatory <strong>military<\/strong> service in their native South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>In that country, men between 18 and 28 years old have the <strong>obligation<\/strong> to do military service for at least 2 years, which worries their fans, ARMYs, now that all 7 of the group members are in that age range.<\/p>\n<p>Since last year, BTS\u2019 promoting and managing company, <strong>HYBE<\/strong>, has made everything possible to attempt to delay the enrollment of the members in the tropes, they have even been confirmed to attempt to get a permanent exoneration of that legal obligation, with no apparent success.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-22306 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/BTS-postpone-military-service.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1469\" height=\"1115\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/BTS-postpone-military-service.jpeg 1469w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/BTS-postpone-military-service-300x228.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/BTS-postpone-military-service-1024x777.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/BTS-postpone-military-service-768x583.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/BTS-postpone-military-service-600x455.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/BTS-postpone-military-service-750x569.jpeg 750w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/BTS-postpone-military-service-1140x865.jpeg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1469px) 100vw, 1469px\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also worth noting that, up until the moment of this redaction, none of them has denied the possibility to pause their music careers to <strong>enlist<\/strong> themselves into the tropes of the national army.<\/p>\n<p>You may also like: <\/p>\n<p>The discussion around the creation of a legal <strong>exoneration<\/strong> for the members of worldwide famous artists from the enrollment in the military service started in September of 2021, with a wide variety of opinions.<\/p>\n<p>The South Korean Army has expressed their unwillingness to <strong>change<\/strong> a millenary traditional <strong>law<\/strong> just for the benefit of a small portion of the population, however, however, they agreed to allow a <strong>delay<\/strong> for this type of instances of maximum 2 years, so KPOP Idols can delay their enrollment until they reach 30 years of age.<\/p>\n<p><\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With BTS\u2019 member J-Hope\u2019s recent 28th birthday, a question has risen between fans, who seem to be worried about the group\u2019s future as they will irremediably have to face the obligatory military service in their native South Korea. In that country, men between 18 and 28 years old have the obligation to do military service [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2817,"featured_media":22305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[49],"class_list":{"0":"post-22304","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kpop","8":"tag-bts"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}