BTS Singer Jin Debuts Shaved Head As He Prepares To Begin Military Service

With South Korean instrumentality requiring each able-bodied men to service successful the military, Jin of BTS reported for work connected Tuesday (Dec. 13). Before helium began his 18 months successful uniform, Jin, 30, showed disconnected his recently shaved caput connected the Korean app Weverse, joking that his look is “cuter” than expected (h/t PEOPLE). Gone were the trademark locks that made the K-Pop star, on with his bandmates, 1 of the biggest idols successful the world. Instead, Jin looked acceptable to service his country. “I anticipation you person a steadfast trip,” wrote BTS’s euphony show director, Sungdeuk Son, who shared the photograph to his Instagram page, “and [this will] beryllium a precious clip successful your life.”

Jin began work astatine the Yeoncheon service basal successful bluish Gyeonggi province, per CNN. The “Dynamite” vocalist arrived successful a motorcade of six achromatic vans, passing by galore banners on the roadway that welcomed Jin and different recruits to the basal (which, arsenic CNN notes, is 10 miles from the Demilitarized Zone with North Korea.) Fans gathered to privation Jin good and get a glimpse of him, contempt Jin’s pleas for them to enactment away. “It’s a precise acold winter, and I’m reasoning of him going to endure successful the military. That’s wherefore I came here,” Lee Hey-Kyoung, a 40-year-old from Seoul, told CNN.

Kim Seok-jin successful August 2022 (Steve Cho Kyewoong/Penta Press/Shutterstock)

Military work is compulsory successful South Korea, with astir each steadfast and susceptible men serving 18 months earlier they are 28 years old. However, successful 2020, the country’s parliament passed a measure allowing popular stars – specifically those who “excel successful fashionable civilization and art” – to defer their work until the property of 30, according to CNN. Jin turned 30 connected Dec. 4, meaning that it was his time. He volition present statesman a five-week basal grooming people earlier being assigned to a unit.

“After the phenomenal performance to enactment Busan’s bid for the World Expo 2030, and arsenic each individual embarks connected solo endeavors, it’s the cleanable clip and the members of BTS are honored to serve,” said the band’s management/label, BIGHIT Music, successful an October 2022 statement. “Since the instauration of BTS implicit 10 years ago, the set has risen to planetary success, breached records and catapulted K-Pop into the planetary st,ratosphere. BIGHIT MUSIC has focused to the milestone infinitesimal erstwhile it would beryllium imaginable to respect the needs of the state and for these steadfast young men to service with their countrymen, and that’s now.”

Other members of the radical program to transportation retired their subject work based connected their ain idiosyncratic plans,” the connection added. “Both the institution and the members of BTS are looking guardant to reconvening arsenic a radical again astir 2025 pursuing their work commitment.”

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