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Will BTS make a comeback? 4 members of Korean boy band to end military service this week

Four more members of superstar Korean boy band finish their compulsory military service this week, raising fans’ hopes they’ll perform again

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BTS promote their single “Butter” in 2021. Members of the Korean boy band V (far left), Jungkook (centre), RM (third from right) and Jimin (second from right) will complete their mandatory military service in South Korea this week. Photo: AP
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Four singers from the Korean band BTS will complete their compulsory service in the South Korean military this week, increasing fans’ hopes that the globally popular K-pop band will make a comeback.

The Yonhap news agency, citing the band’s management, reported that members RM and V would be discharged on June 10 and Jimin and Jungkook a day later after 18 months’ service.

For security reasons, no public event is being planned to mark the occasion, it said.

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In South Korea, all able-bodied men must complete 18 to 21 months of military service. The members’ requirement to complete their military service had postponed any prospect of the band reuniting.
Korean boy band BTS – Jin, Suga, J-Hope, RM, Jimin, V and Jungkook – perform in military uniform in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 2015 as if anticipating their coming mandatory service in South Korea’s armed forces. Photo: Getty Images
Korean boy band BTS – Jin, Suga, J-Hope, RM, Jimin, V and Jungkook – perform in military uniform in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 2015 as if anticipating their coming mandatory service in South Korea’s armed forces. Photo: Getty Images

The BTS members are between their late twenties and early thirties, and two, Jin and J-Hope, have already completed their military service. Rapper Suga is expected to complete his alternative civilian service on June 21.

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