{"id":48043,"date":"2022-09-01T00:49:37","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T15:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/31\/south-korea-considers-survey-on-boy-band-kts-members-military-service"},"modified":"2022-09-01T00:49:37","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T15:49:37","slug":"south-korea-considers-survey-on-boyband-bts-members-military-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48043","title":{"rendered":"South Korea considers survey on boyband BTS members\u2019 military service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>K-pop band\u2019s oldest member,  Jin, faces enlistment in December when he turns 30<\/p>\n<p>South Korea may conduct a public survey to help determine whether to grant exemption to the mandatory military service to members of the K-pop boy band <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/bts\">BTS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The question of active military service for the band\u2019s seven members has been a hot-button topic in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/south-korea\">South Korea<\/a> as its oldest member, Jin, faces his enlistment in December, when he turns 30.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/31\/south-korea-considers-survey-on-boy-band-kts-members-military-service\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>K-pop band\u2019s oldest member,  Jin, faces enlistment in December when he turns 30South Korea may conduct a public survey to help determine whether to grant exemption to the mandatory military service to members of the K-pop boy band BTS.The question of a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2668,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,71,425,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-culture","category-music","category-south-korea","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2668"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48044,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48043\/revisions\/48044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}