SEOUL — The return of group 2PM on Monday last week with their new album “Must” was special not just because they were officially reunited on the stage for the first time in five years, but also because the group managed to survive military service.
It is often considered natural for K-pop groups to grow apart or disband after time as the members grow old and eventually leave the original agency when their contract expires.
This was also the scenario some may have expected of 2PM when member Taecyeon enlisted for the military in September 2016 — the first of the five South Korean members to do so — and, on being discharged from the army 20 months later, l…
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