South Korea may conduct survey on BTS members’ military duty

Members of South Korean K-pop band BTS (Lee Jin-man/AP)

South Korea may conduct a public survey to help determine whether to grant exemptions to mandatory military service to members of the K-pop boyband BTS, officials said.

The issue of active military service for the band’s seven members has been a hot-button topic in South Korea because its oldest member, Jin, faces enlistment in December, when he turns 30.