omonatheydid | DAY6's Dowoon To Enlist Early (Reply)

On December 28th during during a joint VLIVE with Wonpil, Dowoon announced that the VLIVE would be his last schedule and that he will be enlisting on the 17th January 2022. He's currently 27 in Korean age (26 in international age) so this is technically an early enlistment for him (as an idol). He will be joining as a member of the military band and shared that he was relieved that he'd be able to continue to play the drums throughout his service. “Musicians who play an instrument have this concern when they enlist in the military, if you don’t play your instrument for even a day, you start to lose your skills and your feel for the instrument. But fortunately, I’ll be in the military band.”

Dowoon is the third member of DAY6 to enlist after Sungjin in March and Young K in October of this year. Jae isn't a Korean national and therefore doesn't need to enlist and there's no news on when Wonpil will be enlisting as he is currently busy with acting and is set to release a solo album next year.

Wonpil shared that the main reason for Dowoon's early enlistment is to minimise the time that DAY6 is on hiatus so that they can make a comeback as soon as possible.

Source: Soompi via Naver and VLIVE

So I originally I figured he might do this as I didn't think he'd be the type to do many solo activities but then he was going on variety shows and even released a single so I figured he'd do more of that. Either way I'm happy that they all seem to want to comeback asap, I miss them ;~;