K-pop boy band BTS member J-hope poses for photograph during a news conference promoting their new album “BE(Deluxe Edition)” in Seoul, South Korea, Nov. 20, 2020. Image: Reuters/Heo Ran
J-Hope of K-pop boy group BTS will begin his mandatory military service on Tuesday, April 18, as he is set to enter a training center reportedly located at Gangwon Province, South Korea.
The “On the Street” singer, 29, bid his fans farewell as he showed off his buzz cut a day before his enlistment through his Instagram page.
“I’ll have a good trip!” he wrote in Korean.
Fellow BTS members will reportedly accompany J-Hope to the military training center to send him off.
J-Hope will be the second member of BTS to enlist in the military. The group’s oldest member, Jin, began his service last December. /ra