V, a member of pop sensation BTS, says he has been receiving treatment for hearing loss in one ear, an announcement that comes midway through the band’s highly-anticipated world tour.<\/p>\n
In a livestream on Wednesday, the 30-year-old said that he has dealt with the problem for about two and a half years. This was the first time he was revealing it to the band’s fans, he said.<\/p>\n
“If the hearing in my left ear is at 100, it’s only about 30 in my right,” said V, whose real name is Kim Tae-hyung. <\/p>\n
The band is currently on its first world tour in years, marking the reunion of all seven members since they went on a hiatus for mandatory military service.<\/p>\n
During the livestream, V said his hearing became worse when he was serving in the military. <\/p>\n
But he said he did not take it seriously at first, believing it to be “a matter of mental strength”.<\/p>\n
He added he was now taking medication and going to hospital regularly.<\/p>\n
With rare exceptions, all able-bodied men are required to serve 18 months of military service in South Korea.<\/p>\n
This included BTS members, who were at the height of their fame in 2022 when they started taking career breaks to enlist in the military.<\/p>\n
V joined the military in 2023 and was discharged in June 2025.<\/p>\n
The Arirang World Tour, which kicked off in April in South Korea, marked the highly-anticipated reunion of the band’s seven members.<\/p>\n
The livestream on Wednesday came after the band wrapped its concerts in Baltimore, Maryland.<\/p>\n
V was joined by his bandmate Jungkook, who talked about a shin injury he has been dealing with during the tour, saying he was “on the verge of developing a stress fracture”.<\/p>\n
Jungkook added that he would have to manage his injury well in order to keep performing.<\/p>\n
In the coming months, the concert tour will take BTS to cities around the world, including Los Angeles, Buenos Aires, Bangkok, Sydney and Hong Kong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"V, a member of pop sensation BTS, says he has been receiving treatment for hearing loss in one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-736427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}