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BTS star Kim Seok-jin arrives by car at an army training center in Yeoncheon on Tuesday to start his mandatory South Korean military duty, the band's first member to enlist since a hiatus announcement this year left fans heartbroken over the K-pop band's uncertain future. IMAGES
Military and police guard an air base in Ecuador's port city of Guayaquil where the wife and children of Ecuadoran fugitive Adolfo Macias, the drug lord known as "Fito," are being held after being expelled from Argentina. IMAGES
(CNN)K-pop fans can breathe a sigh of relief, with BTS here to stay -- for a few more years, at least. Fans have long worried that the boy band, arguably the biggest in the world, could see their success derailed by South Korea's mandatory military service. But on Tuesday, the parliament passed a bill allowing pop stars -- such as BTS -- to defer their service. Previously, the law allowed special exemptions for top artists, athletes, and musicians -- for instance, those who have won classical music competitions -- but not top K-pop stars.
Boy band BTS will have to do military service in their native South Korea with officials in the country stating that the seven members will not granted exemption.
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