BTS’ RM and V bid goodbye to fans ahead of military enlistment today

nme.com:

BTS members RM and V have penned letters to fans ahead of their military enlistment today.The two BTS members will be enlisting today (December 11) for their mandatory military service, as required of South Korean men.

This makes them the fourth and fifth members of the band to enlist. On the eve of his enlistment, BTS’ leader RM took to Instagram stories to share a heartfelt letter to fans.“Hello to everyone I love.

That day has come at last. I feel like there were so many things I wanted to say to you, but now that it’s here, I can’t seem to find the words,” he wrote, as translated by Soompi.“I have faith and I have no doubt that after this passes, new good things will be waiting for us,” RM continued.

He added that watching his bandmates Jin and J-hope “gallantly doing such a great job” in their respective military vocations gives him “unparalleled courage”.Jin and J-hope had been the first two members of the boyband to enlist, the former in December 2022 and the latter in April this year.