The Price of Stardom: BTS's V Reveals Hearing Loss Amid World Tour The news that BTS's V has been diagnosed with hearing loss serves as a stark reminder of the physical toll that stardom can take on its practitioners.
This revelation comes amidst the group's Arirang World Tour, which reunited BTS for the first time in years after their individual military stints.
V's hearing loss worsened during his mandatory 18 month military service, a period that has been in place for decades to instill discipline and patriotism among young men in South Korea.