{"id":618095,"date":"2026-09-08T10:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T10:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/618095\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T10:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T10:18:10","slug":"seventeens-dk-embarks-on-army-duty-after-heartfelt-message-to-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/618095\/","title":{"rendered":"Seventeen&#8217;s DK embarks on Army duty after heartfelt message to fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/4692076e-7a72-4597-a462-b1e0df10117c.png\" style=\"height: auto; aspect-ratio: 1110 \/ 820; width: 100%\" alt=\"Seventeen member DK begins active-duty service in the Army, Tuesday. Captured from DK's social media\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Seventeen member DK begins active-duty service in the Army, Tuesday. Captured from DK&#8217;s social media<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Seventeen member DK begins his military service Tuesday, becoming the sixth member of the group to enlist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">His agency, Pledis Entertainment, announced Tuesday that the singer is entering an Army training center and is scheduled for discharge in March 2028. He is expected to enter quietly without a separate event, out of consideration for other recruits and their families.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The day before, DK held a livestream on a fan platform to bid fans farewell, repeatedly touching his hair as if still getting used to how short it was.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">\u201cMy head looks so round now,\u201d the singer said through tears. \u201cI turned on the livestream to tell you I\u2019d serve well and come back, but I don\u2019t know why I\u2019m crying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">\u201cI think I\u2019m tearing up because it\u2019s starting to feel real. It\u2019s not that I\u2019m afraid of enlisting,\u201d he added. \u201cI think I\u2019m going to miss you all a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">In July, all 13 members of Seventeen, which debuted in 2015, renewed their contracts with Pledis Entertainment for a second time, reaffirming their commitment to staying together.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">\u201cThe 13 of us decided to stay together because we believe there is nothing we cannot accomplish with one another, and we share a desire to go further as a team,\u201d the group said at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">This article from the Hankook Ilbo, the sister publication of The Korea Times, is translated by a generative AI system and edited by The Korea Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seventeen member DK begins active-duty service in the Army, Tuesday. Captured from DK&#8217;s social media Seventeen member DK&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-618095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}