Do Foreign Kpop Idols Have To Enlist. This isnt necessarily a rule that idols have to follow but it is something that they have to consider. Many K-pop trainees and idols are Korean but its not an absolute requirement to be Korean - people of all ethnicities and races can audition.
20 K-pop Idols Who Will Enlist In The Military In 2020. EXO s DO was discharged on January 25 20201. This said most foreign idols have advanced Korean skills.
Thank goodness for that because the hallyu wave has grown to global proportions.
They will call you ugly and will try to suggest you get plastic surgery. The trainees dont just learn to dance and sing for hours and hours a day they also train for years and audition over and over before theyre accepted into a group and can make their debut. In South Korea all military age males are required to serve meaning K-pop idols sometimes have to put their career on hiatus for up to two years. This means that a number K-pop idols who are born in 1991 and 1992 have to conscript by the end of 2020.