South Korea has passed a bill to amend the Military Service Act, which will allow K-pop stars like BTS to postpone military service until the age of 30.
Prior to its revision, the Military Service Act only offered deferral exceptions to athletes, award-winning classical and folk musicians, and those who have enrolled in PhD programmes abroad.
The amendment to the act was originally proposed in September after BTS became the first-ever South Korean group to top the US Billboard Hot 100 singles chart with the single “Dynamite“.
“It’s a sacred duty to defend our country, but that doesn’t mean that everyone has to carry a weapon,” Noh Woong-rae, a senior Democratic Party lawmaker, said in an October statement in support of postponing BTS’ eventual service.
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