"What???!!! Noooo……." my 14-year-old daughter first shrieked, then howled. Chimed in her equally shocked but more restrained galpal: "Wait, they can do that? How??"
These are indeed the questions to ask in response to the news I had broken to the shook teens: BTS, the South Korean K-pop boyband megastars who have sold more than 100 million records worldwide, are going on forced semi-hiatus until 2025, due to their country's compulsory military service for males by the time they hit age 30.
