Jimin Age 2026: How Old Is Jimin at 31?

Last updated: November 7, 2026  ·  By Nathan Cole

Jimin is 31 years old. The BTS singer and dancer, born Park Ji-min on October 13, 1995, in Busan, South Korea, turned 31 on October 13, 2026 — and he spent the birthday itself on stage in South America, in the middle of BTS’s ARIRANG world tour. His bandmates surprised him with a crown and a chorus of “Happy Birthday” during the Santiago concert the next night, in front of roughly 69,000 fans at the Estadio Nacional.

If you have seen a page that says he is 30, that page is out of date. Plenty of 2026 profiles were written before his October birthday and never updated, and the stale number keeps circulating. The fresh reporting settles it: StarNews Korea covered his 31st birthday on October 13 and again on November 2, 2026, describing the month-long “Jimtober” celebrations; allkpop reported the onstage surprise in Chile on October 15; and famosix updated its Jimin profile on October 13, 2026, to read “31 years old”. This article is built on the October 2026 reporting, not on the pages that froze in the first half of the year.

The number is only the start. Jimin was 17 when BTS debuted, 27 when “Like Crazy” made him the first Korean solo artist to top the Billboard Hot 100, 28 when he enlisted, and 30 when BTS released ARIRANG and walked back onto stadium stages after nearly four years away. His estimated net worth in 2026 sits at $20 million to $29 million, per Tatler Asia’s October 2026 reporting, built on solo royalties, HYBE stock, and ambassador deals with Dior and Tiffany & Co. This page gives the full picture: the birthdate, the age at every career milestone, the BTS age table, the military dates, the 2026 comeback, and the money.

The Answer, Dated: Jimin Is 31 — and Why Some Pages Still Say 30

Jimin was born on October 13, 1995. Count forward from that date and the arithmetic is plain: he turned 30 on October 13, 2025, and 31 on October 13, 2026. Any page that says 30 in November 2026 was written before the birthday and left untouched. The confusion is easy to understand, because the number changed less than a month before this article was written, and because K-pop profile pages are copied from one site to the next faster than they are updated. It is also easy to settle, because the birthday itself was a news event.

StarNews Korea ran two reports on it. On October 18, 2026, the outlet noted that “HAPPY BIRTHDAY JIMIN” had ranked No. 1 worldwide on X on his 31st birthday, setting a record for an eighth consecutive year. On November 2, it reported the scale of the month-long “Jimtober” celebrations: billboards and events in 71 cities in China, plus more than 40 LED screens across Seoul, at subway stations, bus and taxi stops, in front of HYBE headquarters, and on building exteriors in Seongsu-dong. allkpop reported on October 15 that BTS had surprised Jimin with a birthday celebration during their first concert in Chile in nine years, at the Estadio Nacional in Santiago on October 14, where the members placed a crown on his head and the crowd sang along. The Daily Jagran and Daily Music Roll both covered the Peru tributes in the same week: a decorated “Train of Love” on the Lima Metro, billboards, LED trucks, and a drone show, all staged ahead of October 13 during BTS’s first-ever concerts in Peru on October 7, 9, and 10.

The profile sites caught up at different speeds. famosix updated its Jimin page on October 13, 2026, and now reads “31 years old”, with the birthdate and the Geumjeong District birthplace spelled out. kpopangel lists “October 13, 1995 · 31 years old”. kpopsingers lists his age as 31 in 2026. The pages that still say 30 are the ones with no October update stamp — and they are the reason this article dates every claim it makes. When a number has a birthday attached to it, the date of the source matters as much as the number.

Busan, 1995: A Dance Student in Geumjeong

Park Ji-min was born in Hoedong-dong, in the Geumjeong District of Busan, South Korea’s second city, on October 13, 1995. He grew up there with his parents and a younger brother, born in 1997. Busan is a port city, a long way from the Seoul entertainment machine, and Jimin’s first serious training had nothing to do with pop music. He studied contemporary dance at the Busan High School of Arts, where he majored in the subject and finished at the top of his department — a detail that matters, because the dancer he became was built in a classroom before it was built in a rehearsal room.

His dance teacher saw the talent before anyone in the industry did. It was the teacher who urged him to audition for Big Hit Entertainment, the small Seoul agency that was putting together a boy group. Jimin travelled to the audition in 2012, passed, and moved to Seoul. He transferred to the Korean Arts High School to finish his schooling while he trained. He was 16 when he auditioned and 17 when he debuted, which means the whole of his professional life has happened inside a single decade and a half — and the dance training is still the foundation of it. Watch any BTS performance and the clearest line back to Busan is the way he moves: the contemporary-dance control, the long lines, the landings that look weightless.

The Last to Join: Thirteen Months from Audition to Debut

Jimin was the last member to join BTS, and he had the shortest training period of the seven — about 13 months from his 2012 audition to the June 2013 debut. That is a short runway by K-pop standards, where trainees commonly spend three to five years preparing, and it shaped the way his early career is remembered. He arrived when the group was nearly complete, learned the choreography and the repertoire at speed, and debuted before he had time to doubt the pace.

The speed also explains a detail that fans still repeat: he was nearly cut. Big Hit’s founder, Bang Si-hyuk, has said in interviews that Jimin was close to being dropped from the lineup during the trainee period, and that it was the other members who argued for keeping him. The story is told so often that it risks sounding like legend, but the underlying fact is documented — a 17-year-old who had trained for barely a year, holding a place in a group that had been years in the making. He kept it by dancing harder than anyone else in the room, and by the time BTS debuted, the main-dancer role was his.

Seventeen Years Old: The BTS Debut of June 13, 2013

BTS debuted on June 13, 2013, with the single album “2 Cool 4 Skool” and the lead track “No More Dream”. Jimin was 17 years old — the second-youngest member, ahead of only Jungkook, who was 15. The group was a hip-hop act from a small agency, with no guarantee of survival in an industry dominated by the big three labels. The debut showcase was modest, the first-year sales were modest, and the group spent its first two years building an audience show by show.

Inside the group, Jimin held two roles from the start: main dancer and lead vocalist. The combination is unusual — lead vocals usually sit with the singers, main dance with the dancers — and it defined his value to BTS. He sang the high lines and carried the choreography’s hardest moments in the same performance, and the balance between the two became his signature. The solo songs he later recorded inside BTS albums trace the same arc: “Lie” on Wings in 2016, a dark, dramatic piece that showed off his range; “Serendipity” on Love Yourself: Her in 2017, a softer, romantic track that became a fan favourite; and “Filter” on Map of the Soul: 7 in 2020, a confident, Latin-tinged solo that charted on its own. Each one arrived at a different age — 20, 21, and 24 — and each one showed a singer growing into his voice.

Jimin’s Age at Every Big Moment

One number never tells the story of a career. The table below pins Jimin’s age to the dates that define him, so the reader can see how young he was when each milestone landed — and how much of his career happened before he turned 30.

The pattern in the table is the point. Jimin did his first decade as a professional before he was 28, spent 18 months of his late twenties in uniform, and came back at 30 to the biggest tour of his life. The 31st birthday did not arrive at a quiet moment. It arrived in the middle of a stadium run, with a new album at No. 1 and 82 shows on the calendar.

The Solo Breakout: FACE, “Like Crazy” and MUSE

Jimin’s solo career is short, concentrated, and record-breaking — and it happened almost entirely in his late twenties. Before his own albums, his solo work lived on SoundCloud and inside BTS records. “Promise”, released on December 31, 2018, was his first song outside a BTS album, and it broke SoundCloud’s 24-hour streaming record at the time, according to Billboard’s reporting. “Christmas Love” followed on December 24, 2020. Both were gifts to fans rather than commercial releases, and both showed a singer who could carry a song alone.

The commercial debut arrived on March 24, 2023, with FACE, a six-track album built around the emotional impact of the pandemic years. It debuted at No. 1 in South Korea and Japan and at No. 2 on the US Billboard 200, with 164,000 equivalent album units — the highest-charting album by a Korean solo artist in Billboard history at the time. The pre-release single “Set Me Free Pt. 2” entered the Hot 100 at No. 30. The title track did something bigger. “Like Crazy” debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on the chart dated April 8, 2023, selling more than 254,000 copies in its first week, making Jimin the first Korean solo artist ever to top the chart. He also became the first Korean solo artist to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Artist 100. He was 27.

The second album came under stranger circumstances. MUSE was released on July 19, 2024, while Jimin was serving in the Army, with the lead single “Who” carrying the campaign. “Who” debuted on the Hot 100 at No. 14, peaked at No. 12, and stayed on the chart for 33 weeks — the longest-charting song by a Korean artist in Hot 100 history, passing BTS’s own “Dynamite”. It also debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Global 200. MUSE itself reached No. 2 on the Billboard 200, making Jimin the first Korean solo artist with two albums in the top three of that chart. A singer who released his second album from inside a military base, and watched it break records while he was in uniform, is a singer whose solo career was never going to be a side project.

The brand world noticed at the same time. Dior named him a global ambassador in January 2023, and Tiffany & Co. followed in March 2023. Both deals arrived in the same quarter as FACE, and both are still part of his income picture in 2026 — the luxury partnerships are one of the three pillars of his net worth, alongside music royalties and HYBE stock.

Eighteen Months in Uniform: The Artillery Years

Jimin enlisted on December 12, 2023, at 28, alongside Jungkook, under the Army’s buddy-enlistment option. The two entered the 5th Infantry Division’s training centre in Yeoncheon together and served as active-duty soldiers in the division’s Artillery Brigade — Jimin as a gunner. RM and V had enlisted the day before, on December 11. The timing was deliberate: the four youngest members went in on consecutive days so the group’s hiatus would be as short as the law allowed.

He was discharged on June 11, 2025, at 29, again alongside Jungkook, after 18 months of service. Hundreds of fans gathered at the discharge greeting in Yeoncheon, and J-Hope was there to welcome them. Jimin told the crowd he wanted people to offer warm words to soldiers they passed on the street, and spoke about the hard stretches of military life. RM and V had been discharged the day before, on June 10, and Suga completed his alternative service on June 21, 2025 — the last of the seven. By the end of June 2025, every BTS member was a civilian again, and the countdown to the comeback could start.

The service years explain the shape of his late twenties. He released MUSE while enlisted, turned 29 in uniform, and came out to a group that had been apart for more than two years. The 18 months cost him touring income and public visibility, and they gave him the one thing a K-pop idol rarely gets: a fixed date after which the whole group could reunite. The comeback album was announced within months of the last discharge.

Thirty and Back on Stage: ARIRANG and the World Tour

BTS announced the comeback on January 5, 2026: a new album, ARIRANG, on March 20, 2026, their first studio album of original material since Map of the Soul: 7 in 2020 and their first group release in nearly four years. The album — 14 tracks, named after the traditional Korean folk song, with “Swim” as the lead single — debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 641,000 album-equivalent units, the largest opening week by units for a group since the chart’s current methodology began. The next day, March 21, the group performed a free comeback concert at Gwanghwamun Square in Seoul, their first full-group show in almost four years, in front of a crowd reported at around 260,000 people.

The ARIRANG World Tour launched on April 9, 2026, in Goyang, South Korea, and it is the largest tour BTS has ever staged: 82 shows across 34 cities in 23 countries, running through March 2027. The route covered Tokyo, Tampa, El Paso, Mexico City, Las Vegas, Busan, Madrid, London, Paris, and the American stadium circuit through the summer, then Latin America in October — Bogotá, Lima, Santiago, Buenos Aires, and São Paulo. The Lima shows on October 7, 9, and 10 were BTS’s first-ever concerts in Peru, and the Santiago show on October 14 was their first in Chile in nine years, drawing about 69,000 fans to the Estadio Nacional. Jimin turned 31 in the middle of that run, and the tour celebrated it on stage.

As of this article’s publication on November 7, 2026, the tour is in its Asian leg. The next dates are Kaohsiung on November 19, 21, and 22, followed by Bangkok on December 3, 5, and 6, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, and Jakarta through the end of the year, then Melbourne and Sydney in February 2027 and Hong Kong and Manila in March 2027. Jimin will be 31 for the whole of it, and 32 by the time the tour’s final dates arrive — the tour is, in effect, his 31st year on stage.

How Old Is Every BTS Member in 2026?

Jimin is the fifth-oldest of the seven, and the ages around him explain the group’s dynamic. Jin, the eldest, is 33 and turns 34 on December 4, 2026. V, the youngest of the 1995-born pair, is still 30 and turns 31 on December 30, 2026 — 78 days after Jimin. The gap between the oldest and youngest member is just under five years, from December 1992 to September 1997.

The ages are calculated on the international system and verified against the birthdates listed by kpopcore, bangtanarmy, and kpopanswers in their 2026 updates. The same sources confirm the order: Jin, Suga, J-Hope, RM, Jimin, V, Jungkook. Jimin sits in the middle of the group in age, as he does in the group’s vocal line — old enough to have debuted as a teenager and young enough that his thirties are only just beginning.

The Korean Age Question, Settled

Readers who have followed K-pop for years sometimes ask whether Jimin is 31 or 32, because Korea used to count age differently. Under the old Korean-age system, a person was one year old at birth and gained a year on New Year’s Day, so a Korean celebrity’s “Korean age” was usually one or two years higher than the international figure. That system ended in June 2023, when South Korea adopted the international age standard for official purposes: age is now counted from birth, and it increases on the birthday.

The change is why 31 is the correct figure everywhere in 2026. Under the old system Jimin would have been listed as 32 for most of the year. Under the system in force since June 2023, he is 31, and every current profile — famosix, kpopangel, kpopsingers, kpopanswers — lists him that way. If a page still gives his age as 32, it is using a system that no longer exists, or it copied a number from before the law changed. The same rule applies to the whole group: Jin is 33, not 34 or 35, and Jungkook is 29, not 30 or 31.

Height, MBTI, Blood Type and the Rest of the Profile

Jimin is 174 cm tall — 5 feet 8.5 inches, usually rounded to 5 feet 9 inches in profile listings. That makes him the joint-shortest member of BTS, tied with Suga at the same 174 cm, while RM stands tallest at 181 cm and Jin and V tie at 179 cm. The number has been stable across every 2026 profile, and the small variations in older listings (173.6 cm, quoted from a V Live broadcast years ago) trace back to self-reports rather than any real change. His listed weight varies by source, roughly 58 to 61 kg, and is best treated as a reported range rather than a fixed figure.

His blood type is A, a detail Korean profiles always carry and international readers often wonder about. His MBTI type is listed as ESTP in most profile listings, including kpopsingers and kpopangel — though one 2026 profile gives ESTJ, so the honest statement is that ESTP is the commonly reported result and that MBTI is a self-reported preference framework, not a diagnosis. His zodiac sign is Libra, matching the October 13 birthdate. His BT21 character, the animated figure he designed with the group in 2017, is Chimmy, the yellow-hooded puppy, and it remains one of the most recognisable pieces of BTS merchandise in the world. His nicknames — Mochi, ChimChim, Manggaeddeok (rice cake) — are fan shorthand for the soft features and the dance-trained build that the thumbnail on this page is drawn from.

Net Worth at 31: What Thirteen Years Has Built

Jimin’s net worth in 2026 is an estimated $20 million to $29 million. That is the anchor figure in this article, drawn from Tatler Asia’s October 2026 profile — updated November 5, 2026 — and from Film Daily’s 2026 BTS rankings, which put him in the same $20 million to $29 million band. The full breakdown of how that figure is built, including the wider published spread and the income behind it, is covered in our Jimin net worth profile.

The wider spread is worth a sentence, because it shows why a single number is never the whole story. armybangtanworld puts him at $27 million to $29 million. scrowp puts him at roughly $40 million. turkishweekly gives a $20 million to $60 million range and notes that several outlets settle around $40 million to $50 million. The gap comes from the same source every time: nobody outside HYBE can see his private contracts, his investment holdings, or his HYBE stock position, so every outlet is modelling from the same public pieces — album sales, touring revenue, brand contracts, and property records — and weighting them differently.

The pieces themselves are solid. The music income runs from BTS group revenue and the ARIRANG tour through to solo royalties from FACE and MUSE, including a Hot 100 No. 1 and a 33-week Hot 100 run for “Who”. The brand income runs through Dior and Tiffany & Co., the two ambassador deals signed in early 2023. And the stock income runs through HYBE shares, where Jimin is listed among the group’s larger young shareholders. Film Daily’s 2026 reporting puts his HYBE position at roughly the same level as V’s, and notes that the stock is the hidden factor behind sudden jumps or dips in the published estimates — which is why the same singer can be $20 million in one outlet and $40 million in another without either one being wrong about the underlying business.

Family, Privacy and the Life Offstage

Jimin keeps his private life private, and the honest reporting of it is short. He was raised in Busan by his parents, with a younger brother born in 1997. His father has been reported in Korean media as running a cafe in Busan, and Jimin has spoken warmly about his family in interviews without turning them into public figures. He is not married, and he does not discuss relationships in public — a stance he shares with the rest of BTS, whose members have kept dating lives out of the press for their entire careers.

What is public is the work around the edges of the music. He has donated to education causes in Busan, including reported gifts to his former schools, and he has been active in the fan-facing traditions that surround his birthday: the “Jimtober” month, the charity projects ARMY runs in his name each October, and the birthday billboards that StarNews Korea counted across 71 Chinese cities in 2026. The rest — the daily routine, the friendships, the plans beyond the tour — stays off the record, and this article does not fill the gap with rumour. A profile that invents a private life to pad its word count is not a profile. It is fiction.

What Comes Next at 31

The immediate future is already booked. The ARIRANG tour runs through March 2027, with Kaohsiung, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Jakarta, Melbourne, Sydney, Hong Kong, and Manila still to come, and the group has said additional dates in Japan and the Middle East may be added. Jimin will turn 32 on October 13, 2027, by which point the tour will be over and the group will be deciding what follows a stadium run of that scale — a new album cycle, solo projects, or both.

The longer question is what his thirties look like as a solo artist. He has two solo albums, a Hot 100 No. 1, and the longest-charting Korean song in Hot 100 history, all achieved before 30. The third solo album, whenever it comes, will be his first made as a 31-year-old with a full-group tour behind him rather than ahead of him. Nothing about it has been announced, and this article does not guess at dates. What the record shows is a singer who has broken a new piece of ground at every age he has reached — 17 at debut, 27 at his first solo No. 1, 28 in uniform with a second album out, 30 back on stadium stages, 31 on tour in South America. The next milestone will have a date attached to it when it happens, and this page will be updated then.

Sources & Reporting

StarNews Korea, October 18, 2026 (“HAPPY BIRTHDAY JIMIN” No. 1 worldwide on X on his 31st birthday, eighth consecutive year) and November 2, 2026 (Jimtober celebrations, billboards in 71 Chinese cities, 40+ LED screens in Seoul). allkpop, October 15, 2026 (onstage birthday surprise in Santiago, Estadio Nacional, first Chile concert in nine years). famosix, updated October 13, 2026 (born October 13, 1995, Geumjeong District, Busan; 31 years old; BTS debut June 13, 2013). kpopangel and kpopsingers, 2026 profiles (31 years old; 174 cm; blood type A; MBTI ESTP; BT21 Chimmy). Wikipedia, Jimin and Face (Jimin album) (FACE released March 24, 2023; Billboard 200 No. 2; “Like Crazy” debuted Hot 100 No. 1, April 8, 2023, first Korean solo artist; “Set Me Free Pt. 2” No. 30; MUSE released July 19, 2024; “Who” debuted No. 1 on the Billboard Global 200). Billboard reporting via Korea Portal and elpee (164,000 units for FACE; “Who” peaked Hot 100 No. 12, 33 weeks on the chart, longest-charting song by a Korean artist). Tatler Asia, updated November 5, 2026 (net worth $20 million to $29 million; Dior and Tiffany & Co. ambassadorships; HYBE stock). Film Daily, June–July 2026 (BTS net-worth rankings; Jimin $20 million to $29 million; HYBE holdings). armybangtanworld ($27–29 million), scrowp (about $40 million), turkishweekly ($20–60 million spread). epickor, updated October 23, 2026 (military dates: Jimin enlisted December 12, 2023, 5th Infantry Division Artillery Brigade; discharged June 11, 2025; all members finished by June 21, 2025). Yonhap News Agency via The Free Library, June 11, 2025 (discharge; buddy enlistment with Jungkook). Music Times, May 31, 2026, and Namu Wiki (ARIRANG released March 20, 2026; Billboard 200 No. 1, 641,000 units; tour launched April 9, 2026, Goyang; 82 shows, 34 cities, 23 countries, through March 2027; Lima October 7/9/10; Santiago October 14, about 69,000 fans). kpopcore, bangtanarmy, and kpopanswers, 2026 (BTS birthdays and ages: Jin December 4, 1992; Suga March 9, 1993; J-Hope February 18, 1994; RM September 12, 1994; V December 30, 1995; Jungkook September 1, 1997). Figures are estimates built from reported earnings and public estimates, not audited financial statements. Where outlets disagreed — on the net-worth total, on his listed weight, and on the MBTI result — this article prints the range and the reason for it rather than picking the biggest number. If new reporting emerges, this article will be updated and the change noted here.

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