Overview
- The seven members spoke with Capital Breakfast at Kensington Palace on Thursday and described reuniting in 2025 as feeling like a “family reunion.”
- V said he felt he had “no one who could understand me” during service and added that peer counselors existed but he was “not good at opening up,” while SUGA also said he had few people to talk to.
- BTS paused group activity starting in late 2022 for staggered mandatory enlistments, reunited in 2025 to record ARIRANG, and the album spent three weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
- The group is now touring in support of ARIRANG and recently performed in the FIFA World Cup Final halftime show at MetLife Stadium with international stars.
- Their comments underscore the personal costs of South Korea’s compulsory military service and could revive public focus on how the military supports conscripts’ mental health as celebrities return to public life.