Every member of Korean boy band BTS joins military to complete national service

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@MonkeyT12

By all volunteering at the same time instead of waiting to be drafted, they will all come back at the same time (barring misfortune), putting them back in the limelight as quickly as possible instead of having a couple of years at both ends without a full roster. Nice strategy. It also encourages the military to keep them together for PR purposes during their tour of duty.

They will not all serve at the same time. Conscripts serve for eighteen months but, as the article says, they will not all be back together as a group until 2025.

There is a K-Pop group whose members decided to serve at the same time, ONF.