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K-pop star G-Dragon to start mandatory military service

On 27 February, Big Bang member G-Dragon is set to begin his mandatory military service, announced YG Entertainment in a statement.

The K-pop star mentioned his military duty during Big Bang’s 2017 year-end concert at the Gocheok Sky Dome:

As spring comes when winter ends, please don’t be sad and stay happy. We will soon meet again. All 5 of us, BIGBANG, want all of you to be happy. That is our source of energy. If we spend day by day hoping for the day of reunion, the day will soon come, because our love will never change.”

G-Dragon will become the second of the five-member Big Bang to begin his military service. The first was T.O.P, who is currently fulfilling his duties as a public service worker after being discharged due to his drug issues.

Taeyang comes next in line after G-Dragon. Last year he was quoted as saying: “I plan to register our marriage before I enlist in the army.” Well, he did it just in time. Earlier this month Taeyang married Korean actress Min Hyo-rin, his girlfriend for years.

Daesung, another member of the boy band Big Band, previously said on a TV show in November last year that he was looking to start his military service in 2018. Big Bang’s youngest member Seungri is the only one who has not publicly expressed any plans regarding his military service.