BTS's Jin to start mandatory military service in South Korea's army - The Washington Post

Some 270 riot constabulary person been deployed, and ambulances are connected standby astir the Key Recruit Training Center, wherever Jin enters footwear campy at a front-line part successful Yeoncheon County connected the borderline with North Korea.

The enlistment of Korean celebrities often attracts fans and journalists trying to drawback a glimpse of the stars earlier they permission the nationalist oculus for astir 2 years.

BTS’s bureau HYBE said connected Monday that Jin, whose existent sanction is Kim Seok-jin, volition beryllium driven into the subject grounds without stopping for a send-off “in bid to forestall immoderate mishap from crowding.”

The enrollment time astatine a grooming halfway is usually engaged with recruits and their household members exchanging affectional goodbyes. The 30-year-old vocalist joins footwear campy with a cohort of astir 200 different conscripts, galore of whom are younger than him.

All able-bodied South Korean men aged betwixt 18 and 28 indispensable service astatine slightest 18 months successful the country’s equipped forces, but K-pop stars similar Jin who are recognized by the authorities tin defer their work until property 30.

Jin told the “BTS Army” — the authoritative sanction of the lad band’s millions-strong instrumentality basal — to refrain from coming to his enrollment day. Despite his plea, fans are expected to amusement up and HYBE warned successful a connection connected Monday astir imaginable overcrowding.

The K-pop heartthrob sent societal media abuzz earlier erstwhile helium revealed his freshly shaved head. The South Korean service maintains rigid grooming standards, including hairsbreadth magnitude regulations. “It’s cuter than I thought,” helium said successful a connection posted connected the Weverse instrumentality assemblage connected Sunday.

Jin volition acquisition a physically demanding five-week basal grooming people earlier being assigned to a subject unit. Army trainees larn basal skills specified arsenic however to march, sprout guns and propulsion a grenade.

The six different members of BTS are expected to fulfill their draught obligations based connected idiosyncratic timelines. BTS, hailed arsenic the world’s biggest lad band, plans to reconvene arsenic a radical successful 2025 aft they implicit their service.

Jin made his solo debut successful October with the deed azygous “The Astronaut,” which sold much than a cardinal copies.