BTS’ Jin will reportedly enlist for army service in December

BTS‘ Jin will enlist for obligatory army service subsequent month, new studies have claimed.

In accordance with South Korean regulation, all able-bodied males over the age of 18 are required to serve within the army for as much as two years. Regardless of months price of public and political debate relating to a possible exemption for BTS, the group and HYBE introduced final month that each one seven members shall be fulfilling their army duties. The seven-piece are anticipated to be utterly discharged from service and reconvene as a bunch by 2025. Because the band’s eldest member, 29-year-old Jin would be the first to enlist.

Earlier right now (November 24), South Korean information shops together with Yonhap News Agency and KBS News reported that in keeping with unnamed sources from the South Korean army, the Ok-pop idol shall be enlisting on December 13.

These shops additionally claimed that Jin shall be reporting for obligation at a recruit coaching centre in Yeoncheon, Gyeonggi-do for a five-week primary coaching programme, earlier than happening to be deployed to a frontline unit.

In response to the studies, BTS’ label Large Hit Music issued a short assertion to Ilgan Sports shortly after. “It’s troublesome to substantiate. We ask on your beneficiant understanding,” the corporate’s response learn, in keeping with translations by Soompi. 

These studies of Jin’s supposed enlistment date comes a number of weeks after it was reported earlier this month that Jin had utilized to cancel a request for his conscription to be postponed with the official Army Manpower Administration.

Previous to his enlistment, Jin made his solo debut with the one album ‘The Astronaut’ in late October. The music, which he co-wrote with British band Coldplay, later grew to become the quickest album by a soloist to surpass one million gross sales within the Circle Chart’s historical past.