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BTS Announces HIATUS Until 2025 for Military Service
BTS' Jin is sporting a caller look up of his subject duties
Jin debuted his newly shaved caput successful a Dec. 11 selfie on the societal media tract Weverse, captioned, "Cuter than expected." On Tuesday Dec. 13, helium near the BTS Army with a parting message: "It's curtain telephone time."
Jin besides showed disconnected the look to his bandmates arsenic helium begins his mandatory subject work successful the South Korean Army. The authoritative BTS Twitter relationship posted a brace of snaps of the radical laughing together, including 1 pic of the boys playing with Jin's abbreviated hair. In Korean, the Dec. 12 post was captioned, "My brother! Come backmost safe! I emotion you."
Jin, who is the oldest BTS member astatine 30, is the archetypal successful the band to statesman their 18-month-long subject duties, which each able-bodied men betwixt 18 and 35 years aged are required to serve. In October, Big Hit Music, the group's label, announced that the band—comprised of members Jin, RM, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, V and Jungkook—would beryllium taking a interruption until 2025 arsenic they fulfill their duties.
Jin is expected to service done June 2024, according to the South Korean Defense Ministry.
BTS' hiatus for subject purposes comes months aft the set announced they would beryllium taking a break to instrumentality connected different projects, including solo music.
"We're each going to instrumentality immoderate clip to person amusive and acquisition tons of things," Jungkook said successful a June video announcing the break. "We committedness we volition instrumentality someday, adjacent much mature than we are now."
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However, a rep for the set told E! News successful a statement, "To beryllium clear, they are not connected hiatus but volition instrumentality clip to research immoderate solo projects astatine this clip and stay progressive successful assorted antithetic formats."
J-Hope was the archetypal BTS subordinate to merchandise solo enactment aft the June announcement. His album Jack successful the Box was released connected July 15, soon aft the archetypal azygous "More" debuted July 1.
Meanwhile, Jimin recorded "With You" successful collaboration with Wanna One's Ha Sung Woon for the soundtrack of the South Korean TV series Our Blues. The opus spent 7 weeks connected Billboard's Hot Trending Songs chart, topping it successful May.
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