SEOUL – Suga, a member of Okay-pop supergroup BTS, started enjoyable his mandatory military duty Friday as a social service agent, an alternative type of military service in the rustic.
Suga, 30, become the gang’s 3rd member to start out wearing out their military tasks. The two others, Jin and J-Hope, are already acting energetic service at military bases.
“I’ll faithfully serve and come back … Please stay healthy and let’s meet all again in 2025!” Suga wrote in a message posted at the on-line fan platform Weverse.
BTS’s control company, Big Hit Music, mentioned that Suga later started commuting to a place of work designated beneath the rustic’s alternative military service machine.
In South Korea, all able-bodied males will have to serve in the military, army or air drive for 18-21 months beneath a conscription machine established because of threats from rival North Korea. Individuals with bodily and psychological problems can as an alternative perform their tasks at non-military amenities corresponding to welfare facilities, neighborhood service facilities and post workplaces for 21 months.
Local media reported Suga’s alternative service was once most probably associated with a shoulder surgical treatment that he underwent in 2020.
Active responsibility infantrymen are required to start their service with 5 weeks of fundamental military coaching at boot camps. Those acting alternative service are matter to 3 weeks of fundamental military coaching and will make a selection when to take it, in keeping with the Military Manpower Administration.
It wasn’t identified in which facility Suga started serving. In a observation previous this week, BTS’s control company, Bit Hit Music, requested Suga fanatics to chorus from visiting the signer at his place of work right through the length of his service.
“Please convey your warm regards and encouragement in your hearts only,” Big Hit Music mentioned. “We ask for your continued love and support for (Suga) until he completes his service and returns.”
Last yr, intense public debate erupted over whether or not BTS participants must obtain particular exemptions to their obligatory military tasks. But the gang’s control company sooner or later mentioned all seven members would fulfill their obligations.
South Korean regulation grants exemptions to athletes, classical and conventional musicians, and ballet and different dancers, if they’re deemed to have enhanced the rustic’s status. Okay-pop singers don’t seem to be eligible for the particular dispensation.