Final BTS member discharged from military service, sparking reunion hopes

K-pop prima Suga, a rapper and songwriter from planetary sensation BTS, has been discharged from South Korea's mandatory subject service.

He is the past subordinate of the set to decorativeness their enlistment duties with Jin, J-Hope, RM, Jimin, V, and Jung Kook already leaving the military.

The different six members of the K-pop set served successful the service portion Suga worked arsenic a societal work agent, which is an alternate signifier of subject service.

His instrumentality is simply a large infinitesimal for BTS fans, known arsenic the ARMY, arsenic the set plans to reunite present they've each finished their service.

While details of a reunion person not been released, the radical is expected to clasp its largest-ever satellite circuit successful 2026, according to NH Securities, 1 of South Korea's largest concern firms.

"It's gone past excitement and into astir being numb," said Ayla O'Ryan, 45, from Scotland, astir the imaginable reunion.

RM and V were discharged past week, with Jimin and Jung Kook discharged a time later.

"I anticipation they tin research immoderate music...anything they privation to bash due to the fact that I volition ever enactment them, immoderate they consciousness similar doing," said Alice Bonamy, an interpreter from France.

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In South Korea, each able-bodied men aged 18 to 28 are required by instrumentality to implicit 18-21 months of subject service.

It's a strategy designed to deter aggression from rival North Korea.

Athletes, classical and accepted musicians, and ballet and different dancers are exempt if they person obtained apical prizes successful definite competitions and are assessed to person enhanced nationalist prestige.

K-pop stars and different entertainers, however, are not exempt.

In 2020, BTS postponed their work until property 30 aft South Korea allowed K-pop stars to hold their enlistment.

But determination was a heated nationalist statement successful 2022 implicit whether BTS should beryllium wholly exempt.

The group's absorption bureau past announced that each 7 members would fulfil their duties.