J-Hope Gives Update on the Future of BTS as Final Members Finish Up Military Service

The members of BTS are just as eager to reunite after their break as ARMY is to see it happen, according to J-Hope.

In a clip from his upcoming interview with Apple Music 1’s Zane Low, which Teen Vogue premiered Monday (April 28), the “Chicken Noodle Soup” singer shared an update on the boy band’s future with respect to RM, Suga, V, Jimin and Jung Kook approaching the end of their respective times in the South Korean military. “I look forward to June when our members will have completed their service,” J-Hope began, according to a close-captioned translation.

The star went on to reveal that the septet’s reunion will be speedy once the final five members finish their enlistments. “We will quickly get together and talk about what BTS can do in the future,” he told Lowe. “I think it’s going to be a massive energy.”

The interview comes a little over six months after J-Hope became the second member of BTS to be discharged from the military, after Jin. The bestselling band has been on break for about two years as they each completed their mandatory service periods, with all seven of the members releasing solo projects in the interim.

“I think that over time, we each refined our unique identities as each of us work on their own music, come out with their solo projects and do their own thing,” J-Hope said on Apple Music 1. “The funny thing for me is when our identities, which have taken shape in various ways, come together as BTS.”

He added of their upcoming reunion: “I’m curious to see how it’ll look like.”

For J-Hope’s part, the South Korean singer has released multiple pieces of solo music since he began his now-complete military service in February 2023. In March of that year, he dropped single “On the Street” with J. Cole, about a year after which J-Hope unveiled EP HOPE ON THE STREET VOL. 1, reaching No. 5 on the Billboard 200.

BTS last released an album in 2020, with Be reaching No. 1 on the albums chart. The LP features smash hit “Dynamite,” which spent three weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.