BTS star Jin starts his mandatory South Korean military duty on Tuesday, the band’s first member to enlist since a hiatus announcement this year left fans heartbroken over the K-pop juggernaut’s uncertain future. | AFP
Yonhap news agency reported the star is expected to be deployed to a “frontline” unit near the border with North Korea, with which South Korea remains technically at war.
“For a while, it’s true that there were many fans who would spend days just crying,” a South Korean fan, who runs the Twitter account @5heterotopia, told AFP.ADVERTISEMENT Some male K-pop stars have struggled to resume their careers after military service in a cut-throat industry where artists are easily replaceable.
However, other experts have pointed to the massive success of BTS and said they will be an exception to that trend. But despite that success, a draft proposal to grant them service exemptions proved too controversial and never made it through parliament.
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