BTS member Suga will enlist for necessary navy service in South Korea by the tip of the week, representatives for the Ok-pop group introduced.
“We’ve got additional info relating to SUGA’s navy service,” BIGHIT Music wrote in a discover dated Sept. 17 on the fan neighborhood platform Weverse. “SUGA can be starting his required service on September 22.”
The announcement continued: “There is not going to be any official occasions going down on the day he begins his service or on the day he enters the coaching camp. We kindly ask followers to chorus from visiting SUGA at his office in the course of the interval of his service. Please convey your heat regards and encouragement in your hearts solely.”
“Moreover, please be conscious to keep away from getting adversely affected by unauthorized excursions or bundle merchandise that illegally use the artist’s mental property,” BIGHIT warned. “Our firm will take applicable measures in opposition to makes an attempt at any industrial exercise that make unauthorized use of artist IP.”
“We ask in your continued love and help for SUGA till he completes his service and returns. Our firm may also attempt to supply all of the help he wants throughout this time,” the replace mentioned.
Suga additionally went stay on Weverse the day of the announcement. In keeping with a fan translation, he instructed ARMY his enlistment isn’t one thing to cry about, and reminded them that they’d meet once more in 2025. He responded to feedback about his new, shorter haircut he debuted on the livestream, admitting that he’s nonetheless getting used to it.
On Aug. 7, BIGHIT instructed the BTS ARMY that Suga had begun the method to provoke his navy service, quickly after wrapping the Asian leg of his Agust D-DAY tour in help of solo album D-DAY, which he launched below the moniker Agust D.
BIGHIT first revealed in October 2022 that BTS — Suga, RM, V, Jin, Jung Kook, J-Hope and Jimin — wouldn’t be capable of carry out collectively as a complete group till 2025 as a result of their mandated navy service. Jin was first to enlist, adopted by J-Hope and now Suga.