Seventeen is on hiatus. But the crew's American member, says their — and his — work isn't done.

Joshua Hong at Paris Fashion Week

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Joshua Hong of Seventeen is booked and busy.On Thursday, he spent the morning suited up for a speech at UNESCO. Hours later, he'd shed that skin for hot boy summer and a front-row seat at Paris fashion week. Long story short: He isn't moving at all like a member of a 13-person K-pop group that just announced an extended hiatus.The appearances were his first scheduled activities after Seventeen, one of the top K-pop bands under the K-pop mega-agency Hybe, announced it would pause group activities.Half of the nine active members must enlist for South Korea's mandatory military service. Around a third of the group will hold down the fort until a planned comeback in 2028.Hong — the band's key American member and one of its two English speakers — was tapped to rep them at UNESCO.Hong told Business Insider the youth initiative the band's worked on with UNESCO inspires him because it's a "collective effort" that has opened up "a variety of doors for them to think creatively and develop their own solutions."

Seventeen's Joshua took a trip to Paris this last week — a two-for-one solo jaunt to UNESCO and fashion week.

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