“We wish him all the best and stay safe and healthy and we will wait him the 18 months,” she said. Nearby was Mandy Lee, who flew from Hong Kong to see Jin off. “It’s a very cold winter and I’m thinking of him going to suffer in the military. “But I’m excited too to go in with Jin,” he said, adding that he hoped they might become friends.Īmong the BTS fans outside the base Tuesday was Lee Hey-Kyoung, a 40-year-old from Seoul, who combined subway, bus and taxi rides to make the trip to the base Tuesday morning. Waiting outside a restaurant across from the base with his parents, Kim showed off his new buzz haircut – the same style Jin had gotten a few days earlier – and said he was nervous as he waited to go inside. Numerous banners along the roadway welcomed Jin and the other recruits to the base, which is less than 10 miles (16 kilometers) from the Demilitarized Zone that separates South Korea from North Korea.Īmong the conscripts joining the 5th Infantry Division Tuesday was Kim Seok-jin, 20, from Daejon – who shares the same full name as the superstar recruit. Jin, 30, will spend 18 months in uniform after crossing into the Yeoncheon army base in northern Gyeonggi province, where security staff and the media outnumbered a few hundred fans who had gathered to catch a glimpse of the star – ignoring his earlier pleas for them to stay away.Ī motorcade of six black vans, which was assumed to carry Jin and his security staff, entered the base shortly before 2 p.m. K-pop supergroup BTS entered a new era on Tuesday as Jin, its oldest member, began his mandatory military service amid tight security at an army training center in South Korea.
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