South Korean pop star starts military service with fans gathering near his front-line boot camp
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Jin, the oldest member of the internationally popular band BTS, reported for boot camp Tuesday to being his 18-months of mandatory military service after years of debate.
The news comes amid years of controversy surrounding the group, with some arguing the internationally-popular musicians should fall under South Korea's exemption from mandatory military service granted to those who have enhanced "national prestige." Michael Lee is a writer at Fox News. Follow him on Twitter @UAMichaelLee
However, Sung-Yoon Lee, a professor at the Fletcher School at Tufts University and an expert on Korea, told Fox News Digital that the exemption has typically only applied to top athletes or "classical musicians and artists."
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