Pann Discusses the Age Gap in Golden Child

Is there any boy group with age unbalance this severe?

Golden Child's oldest hyung, Lee Daeyeol (93.02.11)
He's early 93liner, so he's scheduled for enlistment either early or in the middle of next year

Also
Half of the team is born in 99-00

Bong Jaehyun (99.01.04)

Kim Jibeom (99.02.03)

Kim Donghyun (99.02.23)

Hong Joochan (99.07.31)

Maknae, Choi Bomin (00.08.24)

If this doesn't hit you, you can compare with other idols.

93 lineup : BTS Suga/ EXO D.O/ GOT7 Mark
99 lineup : TXT Yeonjun/ NCT Mark/ WayV Lucas/ Stray Kids Changbin
00 lineup : TXT Soobin/ NCT Haechan, Jaemin, Renjun, Jeno/ Stray Kids Hyunjin

If you look at it, the age difference between the senior-junior BTS-TXT or EXO-NCT are within the same group. For girl groups' case, the age difference is meaningless but male idols have the issue of enlistment at stake.. Golcha debuted in 2017, so they'll be 5 years old next year (t/n: according to Korean age counting). They literally have to have a full annual leave where the leader goes to the army, so they either need to have a military hiatus or promote as an incomplete group. This isn't Daeyeol-nim's fault, but I wonder what in the world Woollim was thinking...

(FYI, Daeyeol and Infinite's Sungjong are the same age, and the 99-00liner members are more similar in age to the Woollim Rookies who are yet to debut;;)

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[+18 | -0] Woollim debuted Daeyeol really late... I did think Woollim had its reasons, but if you think about his age and training period, it was too muchㅠㅠ Woollim just needs to put their everything into this comeback...

[+17 | -0] I'll really fight Woollim if they don't have a comeback after a member stays out. Honestly, when I started stanning Golcha, I was prepared to some extent and when Daeyeol comes back from the army, Sungyoon will go, and when Sungyoon comes back, all of them will have to go one by one starting from Jangjun, so it's a situation that I'm already prepared for to some extent. Making the whole group have a military hiatus after one person stays out is a betrayal of obligation to the responsibility over the kids' lives after debuting Golcha on Woollim's part. Seriously, please behave. They seem to be doing their job these days, so I'm keeping an eye on them, but seriously, I don't when they're going to stab us in the back again, so I'm being cautious right now

[+14 | -0] They're rising a bit now, but Woollim-ah, I'll kill you if you send the oldest hyung to enlist without any promotion

[+9 | -0] But I think Sungyoon will do a good job as a leader and the oldest hyung, so I'm not worried. I think when Daeyeol comes back, Sungyoon will go, then everyone will go one by one starting from Jangjun

[+2 | -0] Daeyeol became a Woollim trainee in 2012. Lovelyz debuted in 2014 so he debuted late