Suga Age 2026: How Old Is Suga? BTS’s Producer at 33

Last updated: November 14, 2026 · By Nathan Cole

Suga is 33 years old. The BTS rapper and producer was born Min Yoon-gi on March 9, 1993, in Daegu, South Korea, which makes him 33 in November 2026 and 34 on his next birthday, March 9, 2027. He is the second-oldest member of BTS — only Jin, born in December 1992, is older — and he was 20 when the group debuted in June 2013.

The number matters more than it looks. Suga was the last of the seven BTS members to finish South Korea’s mandatory military service, discharged on June 21, 2025, and his return closed the group’s hiatus. Since then he has been back on stage with BTS for the Arirang album and world tour, and off stage he has done the most consequential work of his career: a 5 billion won donation that built a treatment centre for children with autism in Seoul. This profile answers the age question properly and then tells the story behind it — the Daegu childhood, the Agust D solo career, the producer credits, the military service, the scooter incident he apologised for, and where he stands at 33.

How Old Is Suga in 2026?

Suga is 33 years old in 2026. He was born on March 9, 1993, in Daegu, South Korea, so he turned 33 in March of this year and will turn 34 on March 9, 2027. Every major source agrees: Wikipedia lists his birth date as March 9, 1993; KpopAnswers confirmed in its October 13, 2026 update that Suga is 33; and Famosix, BangtanNow and KpopSingers all carry the same date. There is no competing birth year and no dispute to adjudicate. The only number that ever causes confusion is the Korean age, and that system no longer applies — South Korea switched to international age counting in June 2023, so 33 is the age on every official record, every profile and every birthday post.

His position in the group follows from the date. Suga is the second-oldest of the seven BTS members. Jin, born December 4, 1992, is the eldest at 33, turning 34 in December 2026. Suga follows three months later. The age gap across the whole group is less than five years, from Jin to Jungkook, born September 1, 1997 — and that tight spread is part of why the group could serve its military duty in a staggered sequence and reunite as seven in 2025 and 2026.

Suga’s Birthday: March 9, 1993 — and When He Turns 34

Suga’s birthday is March 9. He is a Pisces, born in the Buk-gu district of Daegu, a city in South Korea’s south-east known for its textile industry and its conservative streak. His birthday has become a fixture in the BTS calendar for a reason that says a lot about him: on his 25th birthday, Suga donated beef to 39 orphanages in the name of ARMY, the group’s fandom, and he has marked birthdays with donations more than once since. The March 9, 2022 donation of 100 million won (about $74,600) to the Hope Bridge Disaster Relief Association for wildfire victims on the east coast is the best-known example, reported by Wikipedia.

His 34th birthday falls on March 9, 2027. By then he will be a year into the Arirang world tour, which runs from April 2026 to March 2027, and the group will be closing the largest tour of its career. The birthday posts that year will be the usual flood — but the number itself will be ordinary. Thirty-four is not a milestone age in K-pop. The milestones in Suga’s life have never been about the number. They have been about the work: the debut at 20, the first solo tour at 30, the discharge at 32, and the comeback at 33.

Early Life in Daegu: The Boy Who Became Gloss

Min Yoon-gi was born on March 9, 1993, in Daegu, South Korea, and grew up there as the younger of two sons. His older brother, Min Geum-jae, was born in 1989. The family lived in the Buk-gu district, and Suga attended local schools including Taejeon Elementary and Apgujeong High School. Music came early and it came from the streets, not the classroom: as a teenager he was part of Daegu’s underground hip-hop scene, rapping under the name Gloss and writing lyrics about a city that felt a long way from Seoul’s entertainment industry.

The underground years shaped everything that followed. Suga learned to write, to produce and to perform before anyone in Seoul knew his name, and he did it in a scene where nobody handed out second chances. He has talked about working part-time jobs to pay for studio time and about the gap between the life he wanted and the life his parents expected. His parents were not enthusiastic about a music career at first — the story of Suga’s father only accepting his son’s path after seeing him perform is one of the most repeated in the BTS biography, and it ended the way these stories do when the artist wins: with his parents in the audience, crying, at a concert in 2016.

The Daegu scene taught him the discipline that Seoul would later reward. Underground rap in Korea in the late 2000s was a small world of cyphers, battles and self-released mixtapes, and Suga took it seriously enough to win a rap competition that brought him to Big Hit’s attention. He wrote constantly — lyrics first, beats second — and he learned the piano as a child, an instrument that still shows up in his production. The combination of classical piano training and street-level hip-hop is the reason his beats sound the way they do: melodic and hard at the same time, with a piano line carrying a rap song. It is also the reason he was hired as a producer before he was hired as a performer.

From Daegu to Big Hit: The Producer Trainee

Suga joined Big Hit Entertainment in 2010, after winning second place in a rap audition. He arrived as a producer trainee as much as a rapper — and that distinction is the key to his whole career. Big Hit hired him to make beats, and he spent three years in the trainee system learning the craft that would make him the group’s musical engine. He played piano, worked with MIDI, and wrote songs for other artists before BTS existed.

The trainee years were not smooth. A shoulder injury from a delivery accident in 2012 would come back to matter a decade later, when it kept him out of active military duty. He has also spoken about the financial pressure of those years, living on little money while the company built the group around him. The payoff came in 2013, when Big Hit put seven young men together and called them BTS. Suga was 20, the second-oldest in the group, and the one who already knew how to make a record.

BTS Debut at 20: June 13, 2013

BTS debuted on June 13, 2013, with the single album 2 Cool 4 Skool. Suga was 20 years old. The group that day was Jin at 20, Suga at 20, J-Hope at 19, RM at 18, Jimin at 17, V at 17 and Jungkook at 15, according to KpopAnswers. The debut was small by the standards of what followed — a hip-hop group from a small company, rapping about school and dreams — but the age spread tells you why the group worked. They were close enough in age to grow up together and different enough in temperament to cover the whole range of the music.

Suga’s role was set from the start: lead rapper and producer. He wrote and produced from the group’s earliest releases, and his fingerprints are on the sound that carried BTS from a niche hip-hop act to the biggest group in the world. The years between the debut and the global breakthrough — the HYYH era, the Wings album, the Love Yourself series — were the years Suga built his reputation as the member who could write a hit and produce it himself. By the time BTS broke America, he was already the group’s most complete musician.

Agust D: The Solo Career in Three Acts

Suga’s solo career runs under a second name: Agust D, a reversal of “DT Suga” — Daegu Town Suga. The first Agust D mixtape arrived in 2016, raw and confessional, with tracks about depression, ambition and the cost of fame that no idol was supposed to release. The second, D-2, followed in 2020 and went further, topping charts around the world. The third act was the album D-Day, released on April 21, 2023, his first full solo album and the record that took him on the road alone.

The D-Day tour in 2023 was the first solo world tour by any BTS member, and it showed what Suga is when the group is not around him: a rapper and producer who can hold an arena on his own, with a setlist that ran from Agust D’s hardest tracks to the quietest songs he has ever written. The tour ended in Seoul in August 2023, weeks before he began his military service. It was a deliberate closing of a chapter — the solo artist saying goodbye on his own terms, before the uniform took him away for 21 months.

The Producer Behind the Hits

Suga’s production credits are the part of his career that casual fans miss and the industry respects most. He produced IU’s “Eight” in 2020, a chart-topping collaboration that paired the biggest soloist in Korea with the biggest group’s rapper. He produced PSY’s “That That” in 2022, the comeback single that put PSY back on the charts a decade after “Gangnam Style”. He has written and produced for Halsey, Epik High and Suran, and his credits run through BTS’s own catalogue from the earliest albums to the latest.

Inside the BTS catalogue, his fingerprints are on some of the group’s most loved deep cuts. He produced “Tomorrow” in 2014, a track about the fear of a future that never arrives that fans still quote a decade later. He produced “Autumn Leaves” on the HYYH Pt. 2 album and his solo track “Seesaw” on Love Yourself: Answer in 2018, a song about a relationship that could not balance that became one of the most streamed solo tracks in the group’s history. He produced “Stay Alive” for Jungkook in 2022, the soundtrack single for the BTS webtoon 7Fates: Chakho, and “Wine” for Suran in 2017, which won Best R&B at the Mnet Asian Music Awards. The range is the point: ballads, hip-hop, R&B and soundtrack work, all from the same desk.

The production work is also the reason his net worth is what it is. A rapper earns from performances and recordings. A producer earns from every song he touches, including other artists’ hits, and the royalties keep arriving long after the recording session ends. Suga’s net worth is covered in full in our separate profile, which anchors it at $40 million — but the short version is that the money comes from three streams: BTS, Agust D, and the production catalogue. Few K-pop idols have all three, and none of them built the third stream the way Suga did, starting as a trainee producer in 2010.

Military Service: The Longest Wait

Suga began his mandatory service on September 22, 2023, as a social service agent — alternative service at a public institution, rather than active duty in a unit. HYBE said he had been ruled unfit for regular combat duty because of his shoulder, the injury from 2012 that he had surgery on in November 2020. His last working day was June 18, 2025, and his formal discharge date was June 21, 2025, a term of 21 months, according to DiscoverAsianWorld.

Social service work is a different kind of duty from active service. Agents work at public institutions — district offices, schools, welfare centres — doing administrative and support work for the length of their term, and they live at home rather than on a base. For a global star, the arrangement meant something unusual: for 21 months, the most famous rapper in Korea commuted to an office job. Suga said little about the work itself while he was doing it, and the label asked fans not to visit his workplace. The quiet suited him. He had always been the member who did the work and let the results speak, and the service years were no different.

He was the last of the seven to finish, and his discharge closed the group’s service chapter. Jin had been discharged on June 12, 2024, J-Hope in October 2024, and RM, V, Jimin and Jungkook in June 2025. Suga’s exit came quietly — HYBE posted confirmation on Weverse without a public event, citing crowd concerns. There was no ceremony, no crowd, no cameras. The next time the public saw all seven together was July 1, 2025, on a Weverse live broadcast titled “BTS is Back”, where RM said the group planned a new album for the following spring and a world tour to go with it.

The Scooter Incident of August 2024

The hardest year of Suga’s service was 2024, and it had nothing to do with the uniform. On the night of August 6, 2024, he rode an electric scooter home after dinner, fell while parking it outside his home in Seoul’s Hannam-dong neighbourhood, and was found by a police officer. A breathalyser test showed a blood alcohol level of 0.227 percent, almost three times the legal limit for licence revocation. His licence was revoked on the spot, and on September 27, 2024, the Seoul Western District Court fined him 15 million won (about $11,500) in a summary order, according to Reuters.

Suga apologised twice, in handwritten posts on Weverse on August 7 and August 25, 2024. He wrote that he had thought the distance was short and had not realised he could not ride an electric scooter after drinking, and that his careless and wrong actions had hurt everyone who cared about him. Big Hit Music apologised as well. The incident is worth recording honestly in a profile about his age and career, because it is the one public stain on a reputation built on discipline — and because the way he handled it, owning it immediately and apologising in his own words, is part of why the story ended there instead of dragging on.

The 5 Billion Won Donation and the Min Yoongi Treatment Center

Two days after his discharge, Suga made the most consequential gesture of his career. On June 23, 2025, he donated 5 billion won — about $3.6 million — to Severance Hospital in Seoul to establish a treatment centre for children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder. It was the largest personal donation ever made by a K-pop idol to a medical institution, according to IndulgeExpress, and the largest sum ever donated within the Yonsei University Medical System, to which Severance belongs.

The money built the Min Yoongi Treatment Center in Seodaemun, Seoul, which opened on September 30, 2025. Suga did more than write a cheque. He had been meeting Professor Chun Geun-ah, head of child and adolescent psychiatry at Severance, since November 2024, and together they developed the MIND Program — Music, Interaction, Network, Diversity — a music-based social skills training programme for children with autism. Suga co-authored the programme’s clinical manual, published on March 17, 2026, and later gave a further 1 billion won (about $720,000) to support children’s medical care, according to BTSArchive. In July 2026 the centre launched MIND-PLAY, a basketball therapy programme developed with the Korean American Special Education Center, and on November 10, 2026, the centre marked its first anniversary.

The donation reframes the scooter incident and the service years in a way no press release could. Suga spent his first days as a civilian building a hospital wing, not promoting a comeback. The centre will treat children for more than a decade, and the MIND Program manual he co-wrote is now a practical guide for therapists. It is the kind of legacy that outlasts a chart position, and at 33 it is already the most important thing he has done outside music.

Suga’s Net Worth in 2026

Suga’s net worth in 2026 is estimated at $40 million, the figure anchored in Guide Net Worth’s own profile of him. CelebAmerica’s November 8, 2026 profile puts the range at $30 million to $70 million and anchors it at $45 million — the difference comes down to how much weight each outlet gives to his production royalties and his property holdings, neither of which is public. The full breakdown lives in the net worth profiles: Suga’s net worth on Guide Net Worth and Suga’s net worth on CelebAmerica, which cover the same fortune from different angles.

The three income streams explain the size of the number. BTS is the biggest: seven world tours, album sales in the tens of millions, and the group’s share of a catalogue that still earns. Agust D is the second: the D-Day tour and the solo albums, with Suga keeping a larger share as a solo artist. Production is the third and the most durable: royalties from IU’s “Eight”, PSY’s “That That” and the BTS catalogue arrive every quarter, whether he is on stage or not. At 33, with the Arirang tour running into 2027, the fortune is still growing — and the 5 billion won donation shows he is already deciding what it is for.

Suga in 2026: Arirang and the World Tour

BTS’s return became official on January 1, 2026, when BigHit Music confirmed a new album for March 20, 2026. The fourteen-track album Arirang came out on March 20, 2026, with “Swim” as the title track, and it led the Billboard 200 for two consecutive weeks — the group’s seventh number one in the United States, according to Famosix. On March 21 the concert at Gwanghwamun Square was broadcast on Netflix, and on March 27 the documentary The Return premiered. RM, the group’s leader, had announced the plan on the July 2025 livestream: a new album in the spring and a world tour to go with it, prepared together in the United States.

The Arirang World Tour started on April 9, 2026, in Goyang, and runs to March 2027 across 79 shows in 34 regions, according to Delivered. In October the tour reached Latin America, playing three sold-out concerts at the Estadio San Marcos in Lima on October 7, 9 and 10. Suga is 33 and back where he belongs: on stage with six men he has known since he was 20, playing the biggest rooms in the world, with a new album at number one. The hiatus is over. The second act of BTS has begun, and Suga — the last one home — is in the middle of it.

The scale of the tour is the other half of the comeback story. Seventy-nine shows across 34 regions is the largest tour BTS has ever announced, and it is their first global trek since the Permission to Dance on Stage tour ended in 2022. For Suga, it is his first full tour since the D-Day solo run in 2023, and the contrast between the two says something about where he is at 33. The solo tour was a single artist holding an arena with a microphone and a band. The Arirang tour is seven men who grew up together, playing stadiums, with Suga back in the role he has always preferred: the rapper and producer in the middle of a group, doing the work he started learning in Daegu fifteen years ago. The tour runs to March 2027, and by the time it ends, he will be a month from his 34th birthday.

Personal Life: Height, Family and the Private Suga

Suga is 174 cm tall (5 ft 8 in), with blood type O and an ISTP personality type, according to BangtanNow. His BT21 character is Shooky, a small cookie with a mischievous face, and the character’s popularity with fans is a running joke in the fandom — the quietest member of BTS has the loudest merch. He is not married as of 2026, and he keeps his private life out of the public eye more carefully than any other member of the group.

One passion fans do know about is basketball. Suga has been an NBA global ambassador since 2023, and his love of the game is genuine rather than ceremonial — he has attended games in the United States, talked about the sport in interviews, and even built the MIND-PLAY basketball therapy programme at his treatment centre around it. The programme, launched in July 2026 with the Korean American Special Education Center, uses basketball to help adolescents with autism build social skills, and it runs on the same idea as the music therapy: a game or a song gives a child a reason to interact, and the interaction is the treatment. It is a small detail that connects the two halves of his life at 33 — the performer and the donor — through a sport he simply likes.

That privacy is not an accident. Suga has always been the member who lets the work speak, and the work is what this profile has been about: the beats, the lyrics, the production credits, the donation. His family — his parents in Daegu and his older brother Min Geum-jae — appear in his story rarely and on his terms. At 33, with a fortune estimated at $40 million and a treatment centre carrying his name, he has built a life that is remarkably free of the noise that follows most stars of his size. The age is just a number. The quiet is the point.

How Old Are the Other BTS Members?

Suga’s age only makes sense inside the group, so here is the full picture as of November 14, 2026. Jin, the eldest, was born December 4, 1992, and is 33 — he turns 34 in December 2026, and Jin is 33 in our age profile of him. Suga follows at 33, born March 9, 1993. J-Hope, born February 18, 1994, is 32, and J-Hope’s age profile covers his solo career and service. RM, born September 12, 1994, is 32. Jimin, born October 13, 1995, is 31. V, born December 30, 1995, is 30 and turns 31 at the end of December 2026. And Jungkook, the youngest, born September 1, 1997, is 29.

The table is the answer to the question behind the question. People search “how old is Suga” because they want to place him in the group, and the group is a five-year spread with Suga near the top. He was 20 at debut, 30 on his first solo tour, 32 at discharge, and 33 at the comeback. The ages will keep changing. The order will not.

Sources & Reporting

Figures in this profile reflect reporting through November 14, 2026. Key sources: Wikipedia (Suga — born March 9, 1993, Daegu; debuted June 2013; birthday donations; shoulder surgery November 2020); KpopAnswers (updated October 13, 2026 — Suga 33, born March 9, 1993; ages at debut); BangtanNow (Min Yoongi profile — 33, 174 cm, ISTP, blood type O, Shooky; Min Yoongi Treatment Center, 5 billion won donation, MIND Program); KpopSingers (Suga profile — born March 9, 1993, age 33 in 2026); Famosix (published October 5, 2026 — age 33, Agust D discography, discharge June 21, 2025, Arirang March 20, 2026, “Swim” seventh US No.1, world tour from April 9, 2026); DiscoverAsianWorld (updated October 21, 2026 — military service dates, discharge June 21, 2025, Arirang 14 tracks, 79-show tour); FilmDaily (June-July 2026 — discharge timeline, March 2026 album, world tour 2026-2027); Delivered (BTS 2026 comeback — Arirang March 20, 2026, tour kickoff April 9, 2026, 79 dates); IndulgeExpress (June 23, 2025 — 5 billion won donation, Min Yoongi Treatment Center, largest by a K-pop idol); BTSArchive (treatment centre timeline — opened September 30, 2025, additional 1 billion won donation, 1st anniversary November 10, 2026); Mirchi (March 17, 2026 — MIND Program clinical manual co-authored by Suga); KoreaBioMed (July 3, 2026 — MIND-PLAY basketball therapy); Reuters (September 30, 2024 — scooter fine 15 million won, BAC 0.227 percent, licence revoked); NamuWiki (scooter incident — August 6, 2024, summary order September 27, 2024, apologies August 7 and 25, 2024; older brother Min Geum-jae); CelebAmerica (November 8, 2026 — Suga net worth $30-70 million, anchored $45 million). Where outlets disagree — the net worth anchor — the article publishes the range and names the sources on each side rather than picking one. More profiles in the Celebrity Net Worth archive.

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