This music critic just ended everything and explained it very well

AKP link

"Critic Lim also said that preparing standards for special military service to pop culture artists is very complicated. He said, “Sports has gold, silver, and bronze, and fine art has a clear condition of ranking in competitions. But not popular culture." He said, "The success of BTS is very clear, but it doesn't end there. A lot of procedures will be needed to apply the military service exception.”"

Okay nationalistic Korean citizen.

not the first music critic to talk about this issue and probably not the last. the decision isn't up to them though.