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BTS's Jin to hold a free hug event at 2024 Festa

The singer is the first of the group members to finish his military service, which ends the day before the event.

2024-06-02

Bye for now, BTS says [REWIND 2023]

The rest of the six members of BTS began their services this year, following the oldest member Jin who began his service in December last year and is expected to finish in June next year.

2023-12-28

BTS nominated for three iHeart Radio Music Awards

Boy band BTS was nominated for an iHeart Radio Music Award for the sixth year in a row. According to the list of nominees announced by the awards on Wednesday, BTS scored three nominations. The lead track “Yet To Come” of its anthology album ...

2023-01-12

Fans of BTS's Jin asked to stop sending letters, gifts to military training center

“If letters and gifts from fans are delivered intensely at once it is difficult to store them there is a risk of loss,”Jin's agency Big Hit Music said in a post on fan community platform Weverse Thursday. “So we urge fans to refrain from sending...

2023-01-05

The highs and lows of BTS’s 2022

After much back and forth, and heated debate among local lawmakers and the public alike, BTS members decided to forgo possible exemptions from their mandatory military service. In October, the band’s agency HYBE announced that all seven ...

2023-01-01