All 7 members of K-pop band BTS have finished military service, with Suga discharged

The Associated Press

· Posted: Jun 20, 2025 3:34 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 hours ago

Suga, a rapper and songwriter successful the planetary K-pop sensation BTS, has been discharged from South Korea's mandatory subject service, marking the authoritative instrumentality of each 7 members from their enlistment duties.  

The statement confirmed that Suga completed his alternate work duties connected Wednesday aft utilizing up his remaining leave. His authoritative discharge day is Saturday.

BTS's absorption agency, Big Hit Entertainment, had said earlier that nary events were planned for Suga's release, retired of interest for overcrowding.

It is simply a momentous juncture for fans of the K-pop group, which soared to planetary occurrence successful 2018 erstwhile it became the archetypal South Korean radical to scope No. 1 connected the U.S. albums chart.

The radical is known for hits specified arsenic Butter and Dynamite, which was the archetypal K-pop way to debut astatine fig 1 connected the Billboard Hot 100. 

The 7 singers of the set program to reunite arsenic a radical sometime successful 2025, present that they've finished their service. They primitively announced a interruption from radical activities successful 2022. 

Last week, members RM and V were discharged from South Korea's subject aft fulfilling their mandatory service. Jimin and Jung Kook were discharged a time later, and hundreds of fans — ironically known arsenic ARMY — gathered to drawback a glimpse. All 4 were enlisted successful December 2023.  

Six of the group's 7 members served successful the army, portion Suga fulfilled his work arsenic a societal work agent, an alternate signifier of subject service.

Jin, the oldest BTS member, was discharged successful June 2024. J-Hope was discharged successful October.

Mandatory work includes K-pop stars

In South Korea, each able-bodied men aged 18 to 28 are required by instrumentality to execute 18-21 months of subject work nether a conscription strategy meant to deter aggression from rival North Korea.  

Exemptions whitethorn beryllium fixed retired for aesculapian reasons, but the instrumentality besides gives peculiar exemptions to athletes, classical and accepted musicians, and ballet and different dancers if they person obtained apical prizes successful definite competitions and are assessed to person enhanced nationalist prestige. K-pop stars and different entertainers aren't taxable to specified privileges.

However, successful 2020, BTS postponed their work until property 30, aft South Korea's National Assembly revised its Military Service Act, allowing K-pop stars to hold their enlistment until property 30.   

There was heated nationalist statement successful 2022 implicit whether to connection peculiar exemptions of mandatory subject work for the massively fashionable BTS members, until the group's absorption bureau announced successful October 2022 that each 7 members would fulfill their duties.