BTS band member at boot camp

The World

Today, the oldest member of the K-Pop supergroup BTS became the first of the bandmates to enter military boot camp. Jin arrived for basic training in Yeoncheon, near the tense border with North Korea. Enlistment by the seven BTS bandmates prompted a fierce debate in South Korea over whether to change the conscription system, as host Marco Werman explains.

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