Jin, the oldest member of the K-pop supergroup BTS, has begun his 18 months of mandatory military service at a front-line South Korean boot camp.
Dozens of fans and journalists gathered near the base, but Jin didn't meet them as a vehicle carrying him entered the camp without him getting out.
Six other members of BTS, the world’s biggest boy band, are to join the military over the next few years. According to the news outlet, in December 2020, the maximum age limit was raised from 28 to 30 after South Korea's National Assembly passed a bill that allowed the band members to put off enlisting in the military until they were 30.
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