BTS Goes To The Military When They’re At The Top Of Their Game, With A ‘Splendid’ Career That Isn’t Afraid Of The Hiatus

The remaining four members of the K-pop boy group BTS, RM, Jimin, V, and Jungkook, are scheduled to enlist in the military in mid-December. This means that the group will be able to return to full-group activities in 2025.

The four members have been busy with solo activities, and they have all enjoyed success. They are now ready to close the first chapter of their career with a flourish and open the second.

On December 22, BTS’s agency Big Hit Music announced that RM, Jimin, V, and Jungkook had begun the process of fulfilling their military service obligations. According to a Star News report, RM and V will enlist on December 11, and Jimin and Jungkook will enlist on December 12. After completing their training, the four members will be assigned to their units and will serve as active-duty soldiers in the Republic of Korea Army for 18 months.
BTS’s Jin, J-Hope, and Suga have already fulfilled their military service obligations. Jin, the eldest member, enlisted in December 2022, J-Hope enlisted in April 2023, and Suga has been serving as a public service worker since September 2023. As Jin is currently serving as a drill sergeant, there is a good chance that Jimin and Jungkook will meet him at the training camp.

As the three members actively pursued solo activities before enlisting, RM, Jimin, V, and Jungkook, who were late enlistees, also did the same. RM ranked 3rd on the US Billboard 200 chart with the album ‘Indigo’ released last year, and was active in the tvN entertainment program ‘A Dictionary of Mysterious Human Trivia that is Useless to Know’ on tvN and as a public relations ambassador for the Ministry of Defense’s remains excavation and identification team. . As RM is the leader of BTS, he has deep affection for the group. He said in a recent live broadcast, “When I return (from the military), I will focus on the team as many people are waiting for it. The members are devoting themselves to their individual projects. Jin hyung will be discharged right before next year’s Festa, so Jin hyung and J-Hope will take the vacancy.” “We will fill the void. Everyone is a workaholic. There will be no time to be bored. Although we still have some time left to complete,” he said, raising expectations for future activities.