By receiving the Cultural Medal in 2018, all seven members were given special permission to postpone their enlistment until they were 30 years old. But at the present time, BTS members are ready to enlist, including SUGA, the third member of the group who will soon enlist in the next few days.
Becoming a BTS tradition since Jin enlisted, the group's members are always present together to see the members off into the barracks. But it seems that in SUGA's case, he will be m̾i̾s̾s̾i̾n̾g Jungkook's send-off for a special reason.
Although fans regret this, they also believe that SUGA will sympathize with Jungkook's absence:
Following in the footsteps of Jin and j-hope, SUGA officially finalized his enlistment date on September 22. In Bł₲ Ⱨł₮ Music's announcement, to prevent problems that may arise when a crowd gathers on the day he enlists, they stated that there will be no farewell event or time to take photos with the media. , and hopes that fans will limit their visits to SUGA at the unit he serves.
SUGA is expected to perform m̷i̷l̷i̷t̷a̷r̷y̷ service as a community service worker instead of active duty, due to having undergone left shoulder surgery in 2020. Accordingly, SUGA will work at a designated agency. within 21 months, 3 months more than members performing active m̷i̷l̷i̷t̷a̷r̷y̷ service like j-hope and Jin. He will be discharged in June 2025.
Similar to this, SUGA is also expected to appear at the office where he serves as a social worker next Friday. He will not begin his service at the m̷i̷l̷i̷t̷a̷r̷y̷ training camp as usual. After serving as a community worker for 10 months, he had to undergo 3 weeks of m̷i̷l̷i̷t̷a̷r̷y̷ training.
Faced with this situation, many people believe that the event of BTS sending SUGA off to the army will have changes. But one thing that fans clearly see is that it will be difficult for Jungkook to be present on the day his brother enlists. This is because his international schedule, coincidentally, takes place next weekend.
It is known that Jungkook was scheduled to attend Global Citizen Festival 2023 on September 24. Therefore, he needed to travel early to prepare for his New York performance at least 1 day and could not come see SUGA off on the day he enlisted.
Despite that, Jungkook returned from another overseas schedule yesterday. He will most likely spend some time with SUGA before he enlists as an early goodbye.
Fans also understand that national orders cannot be changed and Jungkook's schedule is predetermined, so it is difficult to avoid this:
- They are in the midst of doing their solo activities and we have to understand that their scheds will not always align. I too hope he will be able to send his suga hyung off bfore heading to US for the GCF but if not, I'm sure suga will undertand. And we also have to.
- They're adult men. They will understand each other. Jungkook can visit his hyungs anytime he wants. Stop being over dramatic. They're still in the same country
- His hyungs will surely understand. And knowing him, he always find time to say goodbye to them
- the festival isn't a concert just for fun but it's for a cause. jungkook prepared a lot of for this and been traveling back and forth. he cameback to sk before yoongi's enlistment and ik they're already spending their time.
- Jungkook is mature and he will definitely meet his yoongi hyung before enlisting
- It is possible that the reason JK went home even for a few days prior to festival is see Yoongi off even if it is not on the day of enlistment day. They didn't realise that JK can actually just stay in NY until the performance but he opted to come back home.
- because yoongi’s doing social service, jungkook (and the others) can see him on a more regular basis so don’t worry about the fact that he can’t send yoongi off
- to be honest can u send someone off for social service? i think it’s similar to a day job but correct me if i’m wrong
- Public Service Workers start directly in the office. Then will start 3 weeks of basic training. Once completed, that’s when Yoongi’s family & the members can drop him off to his allocated camp
- Yoongi said in suchwita that he wants to live in a set routine with 9am to 4pm job. What yoongi wants, yoongi gets. Dont be too worry guys~~
- Bts knows Thier members better and care of for eachother more then we do it's Thier personal life let them be