These days, the K-pop industry is in a state of mourning after the sudden p@ssing of a young male singer. Meanwhile, there are some toxic individuals who are not affected by this incident, but continue to spread false and untrue information to destroy the artist's reputation.

The most recent is the case of j-hope and BTS in question receiving 'special treatment' on the day of enlistment. Even Jin, who enlisted about 5 months ago, is accused of receiving preferential treatment when he is allowed to enter the army with 'multiple cars'.

In response to these allegations, Big Hit Music released their response when contacted by the reporter. Here's what Big Hit Music announced to the media this morning:

On April 21 KST, media outlet Newsis raised suspicions about the "special treatment" surrounding BTS members' enlistment, the latest being j-hope and Jin not even avoiding this false rumor. The incident quickly became the center of attention and caused great controversy. Meanwhile, it has made fans and netizens express their anger.

Back on April 18, j-hope enlisted as a rookie at the 36th Homeland Defense Infantry Division of the ROK Army in Wonju-si, Gangwon province. On this day, many measures to protect order and safety for recruits are taken.

One of them included a group of soldiers standing in front of the entrance to the military base, stopping and checking each vehicle entering the enlistment site. Newsis claims that most civilians can only have one vehicle into a military base on enlistment day. The large LED sign over the entrance shows that: "Only one vehicle is allowed to enter the unit."  

Not only that, but before getting a pass to enter the enlistment site, each vehicle carrying recruits must be strictly inspected. The family and friends had to show proof of "enlistment" before being allowed into the unit.

However, Newsis pointed out that a total of six HYBE vehicles were allowed to enter the military base when j-hope enlisted on April 18. The same number of vehicles are said to have been allowed into the military base when Jin enlisted in December.

Newsis then went on to state that not only do military bases provide special permits for the six HYBE vehicles to enter during each enlistment ceremony, but the vehicles of HYBE staff and bodyguards are also allowed to enter. without being stopped for inspection like other civilians. Therefore, doubts have been raised about the "special treatment" given to j-hope on the day of his enlistment. This new site also alleges that j-hope was allowed to bring more acquaintances into the ceremony venue than ordinary civilians, prompting many to criticize his enlistment negatively.

Meanwhile, when K-media contacted Big Hit Music to clarify this allegation, the representative of j-hope's management company did not give an exact answer. They responded to the report by stating, “We are currently in the midst of checking [the truth of the report].” The agency added, “We will make a statement after checking.”

In contrast, a representative of the military base in Wonju immediately clarified the matter a few hours after the allegations were spread:  "It's not that we sent back any civilian vehicles if someone came with two cars of family or friends. The general regulation of one vehicle per recruit was advised for safety purposes, but there was no necessity to strictly enforced the regulation." 

In addition, fans also pointed out some evidence to protect j-hope that he and the members respected military regulations when stopping at a banquet hall 3 minutes away from the official enlistment place to say goodbye. After that, j-hope walked into the enlistment ceremony site alone without anyone accompanying him.

Fans also expressed frustration when j-hope, his family as well as the BTS members have never used the privileges of a celebrity but always obeyed all the rules like a normal Korean. often but still cannot avoid such absurd accusations. Netizens also expressed support for j-hope and Jin's enlistment:

- to be honest, there cannot be "no special treatment" i mean, can the m̴i̴l̴i̴t̴a̴r̴y̴ ask Jin or J-Hope to don his m̴i̴l̴i̴t̴a̴r̴y̴ outfit with helmet and rifle and do Sentry duty at the guard house outside the camp?? of cos not, it will be like chaos with all the fans trying to take photo of him outside..can they ask him to take a shovel and shovel snow outside in the winter season? you think its possible? for someone to take photo of him shovelling snow? i cant imagine what the ARMY (his fans) will do the the real ARMY.. lol There are times they have to make "Special arrangements" for public safety sake like how some airports have to whisk celebs through VIP exits, so maybe the camp allowed more vehicles from HYBE to have special clearance to allow him to pαss through quickly.

- Yes, not only idols, but anyone whose public appearance would cause an uproar or riot will need special treatment. You literally cannot expect them to be treated "just like anyone else" because then it will be affecting the public. I mean why do celebs get to go through the vip gate in the airport while normal people have to wait? Yes, it's special treatment but without doing so, normal people would have to wait longer or even potentially not even be able to get in line. Celebrities ARE special, get over yourselves.

- people be nit-picking on bts with anything... when I read ''special treatment'' i thought it is about them getting special treatment while serving INSIDE, but they r talking about them even before entering, people really want bts to have a m̴i̴l̴i̴t̴a̴r̴y̴ scandal to cancel them quickly because they know this will be the only way.. nonsense

- Oh please what's next? They're already serving their mandatory service. When you contribute trillions to your nation maybe having a few cars in with your loved ones, friends etc is not too much to ask? No? Newsflash they're not just "ordinary citizens", they're the BTS.

- So having multiple cars enter the base to say goodbye to their fellow sol∂ιєr is "preferential treatment"? Like you do you hear yourself? Throwing a fit over the amt of car entering the premises is stupid. Thought it was somєthing like g-dragon where he got extra vacation days or they're not actually serving or somєthing. If my loved one is going to the army to spend 2 years away, you bet there's gonna be at least 10 cars of family/friends sending my loved one off.

- I’m not an ARMY but I gotta say how absolutely f*cking ridiculous this is lmfaooo. 

- D@mn… does that mean NCT will need a whole bus if they were to follow the one vehicle rule? 

- Oh leave them alone. Can’t even serve their country in peace.

- This is ridiculous. These guys have done so much for ḳöŕệä imo and I'm not even a big fan. People b1tching about a few extra cars? Losers.

- They make this sound like it was some special treatment. I'm not a fan of Bangtan but this is just bullsh*t. Just look at Yoon Seok-yul or his wife or in-laws. Those are the people who are living off special treatment

- This is oba...

- There's nobody else who would think that these are special treatments aside from trash journalists

- F*ck, just how sensitive people are about the army topic that we are getting articles like this?

- There are other places where special treatments are really given tsk tsk. Trash journalists are playing dírtч

- Ahㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋthey didn't even went into the unitㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Is the journalist not embarrαssed of this?ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

- Is the journalist making up bullsh*t because they didn't get to see Bangtan's faces? Sigh, seriously, this is so dírtч

- They are just mad because Bangtan didn't greet them or somєthing

- Trash journalists succeeded at feeding the trolls...

- This is so pathetic... how is this considered "special treatment"?