BTS's V reveals two-year hearing loss battle during livestream

In the midst of a long-awaited reunion tour, BTS member V has quietly carried a truth that performers rarely speak aloud: for more than two years, his right ear has functioned at only thirty percent capacity, a condition that worsened during mandatory military service and was initially mistaken for a failure of will rather than a failure of the body. His public disclosure, made during a fan livestream this week, arrives at a moment when the world's attention is fixed on BTS's return — and quietly reframes that return as something more complex than triumph. It is a reminder that the human instr