{"id":31940,"date":"2022-09-19T14:14:57","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T21:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=31940"},"modified":"2025-08-01T20:52:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T03:52:22","slug":"bts-military-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/bts-military-service\/","title":{"rendered":"6 in 10 South Koreans approve BTS members’ military service exemption"},"content":{"rendered":"

Military service is one of the most important laws in South Korean. Now, 6 in 10 South Koreans approve BTS members’ military service exemption.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A few months ago, Internet was talking about the importance of BTS representing the South Korean culture around the world, but, as we know, one of the duties South Koreans<\/strong> have is the mandatory military service.<\/p>\n

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The people started asking if it was completly necesary for the guys of to do the service.<\/p>\n

A recent South Korean public opinion survey has shown 60.9 percent of the public<\/strong> approve of revisions to the law on mandatory military service in a way that would allow celebrities like members of the world-famous K-pop band BTS to avoid being drafted.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The results of the survey, commissioned to South Korean polling company Realmeter by the National Assembly’s National Defense Committee<\/strong>, are likely to inject momentum into debate on the issue given calls among both ruling and opposition lawmakers on the committee for changing the law.<\/p>\n

Currently, the law exempts elite athletes and winners of artistic competitions from military service<\/strong>, which is mandatory for all eligible males.<\/p>\n

The poll, conducted on about 1,000 people across the country last Wednesday and Thursday, showed 34.3 percent of South Koreans are against changing the law.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Defense Minister Lee Jong Seop told a session of the National Assembly on Aug. 31 that he would consider conducting a poll to use in policy-making.<\/p>\n

The next day, the Defense Ministry said it would not be the one conducting the survey.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The parliament’s National Defense Committee has said following the public survey that it intends to reach a conclusion on a related debate soon.<\/strong><\/p>\n

What do you think? Should they skip the military service?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Military service is one of the most important laws in South Korean. Now, 6 in 10 South Koreans approve BTS members’ military service exemption. A few months ago, Internet was talking about the importance of BTS representing the South Korean culture around the world, but, as we know, one of the duties South Koreans have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2981,"featured_media":31941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,16],"tags":[49,1233],"class_list":{"0":"post-31940","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-kpop","9":"tag-bts","10":"tag-kpop"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31940","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\/2981"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}