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Park Jin-young testified at the National Assembly on Oct. 7, defending the Phenomenon K-pop event as a private-sector sacrifice, not a political project.
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Seong Han-bin drops his first solo EP 'DEAD:ALIVE' on October 12, three years after debut — and previews it with a one-day weather caster stint on JTBC's 'Achim&' on the 8th.
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AND2BLE drop their promotion scheduler for 'Sequence 02: Attraction', due October 27 — five months after a debut album that moved 730,000 copies.
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Baegna's ballad '사랑했지만' from KBS 2TV daily drama '욕망의 덫' drops October 12 at noon, produced by team 220V and composer 필승불패.
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Miyeon joins the spin-off thriller as Cha Se-mi, the school's new 'queen,' alongside actor Hong Ye-ji and CIX's Hyun-seok.
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Xdinary Heroes' seven-track mini album swings from ballad to heavy rock. They'll play three nights at Incheon Inspire Arena in November.
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Seven-member rookie TUIDE follows a #1 Billboard chart placement and 18-day Apple Music streak with four music show performances of 'Echo' starting October 8.
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YOASOBI drops the theme for NHK drama 'Brassem' on October 14 across Korea and Japan, then launches a record-scale dome tour nine days later.
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KIK, featuring Pentagon's Woo-seok, released 'Hey Enjoy' and 'F1 (Extended Ver.)' on October 7, with an MV shot at the 2026 Busan International Rock Festival.
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JENNIE extends her own record for longest Hot 100 top-10 run by a K-pop artist, while 'Dracula' holds #1 on U.S. all-genre radio for a second straight week.
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SM Entertainment teased Changmin's third mini album on October 7. *All Of My Life* arrives October 19 with six pop rock tracks.
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Singer Jin Hae-sung signed with TM E Group and drops new single 'Sarang Bit' (Love Light) on October 16. The agency is also cracking down on online defamation.
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ITZY wrapped their third world tour across 7 cities on Oct. 3 in Singapore. A 2020 deep cut re-entered Melon's top 100 along the way.
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TWS returns with 'TO US', a single whose Korean pronunciation mirrors the group's name, six months after 'NO TRAGEDY' became a million-seller in four days.
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ILLIT's fifth mini album BREAK EVEN drops October 26 at 6 PM KST with its title track MV. Pre-saves have already crossed 270,000.
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Miss Trot 3 winner Bae Ah-hyun drops trot ballad '뒷바라지' on Oct. 7, penned by composer duo 알고보니혼수상태.
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KO1KEYZ, the 12-member group formed via PRODUCE 101 JAPAN SHINSEKAI, debuts November 7 with a 6-track single—Korean title track drops at noon the same day.
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Political attacks on the cast of 'Assassin(s)' forced last-minute cancellations at the 31st Busan International Film Festival, now recognized as an A-list festival.
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WithUs Entertainment's first female artist HAENA released '시, 분, 초' on October 6—a rock-driven confession paired with an AI-animated music video.
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Ben posted a restaurant selfie on October 6 hinting at a dramatic new look. "I will reveal my short hair tomorrow," she told followers.
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Kid Milli and Trade L's debut collab 'SINS' arrived Oct. 5 with 15 tracks across hip-hop and alternative R&B, five of them positioned as title tracks.
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IVE drops 'Looks Can Kill' on October 26. An Yu-jin's been posting from Paris Fashion Week.
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ALPHA DRIVE ONE's Sanghyun threw his first ceremonial pitch on Oct 5. The group's 'Talk to me' MV arrives Oct 27.
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Ministry J-Us releases a 6-track mini album rooted in Psalm 67, with title track 'Life's River' leading the set.
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Kim Young-chul opened up on YouTube's Rolling Thunder about his last relationship—a 9-month romance that ended after a dating report in January 2013.
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V's solo track 'Love Me Again' has entered Spotify's Billions Club, capping a chart run across iTunes, Billboard, Oricon, and Tidal from his 2023 EP 'Layover'.
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200(EBACK), the sole female member of co-ed hip-hop group SIKKOO, dropped the dark trap single 'OMAKASE' on October 6 with 88rising backing the release.
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EMK Musical Company released two new cast music videos for Rebecca in late September, with the new season opening November 24 at Chungmu Art Center.
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Balming Tiger earns three nods at the UK Music Video Awards 2026, including a Best Director finalist spot for producer Lee Suho.
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Lim Young-woong's YouTube channel hit 1.8 million subscribers on October 3, 2026. Total views have now crossed 3.2 billion.
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'ASAP' hit 200,223,211 plays by Oct. 4, pushing NewJeans past 8.1 billion Spotify streams total.
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Yesung released his second studio album 'Where We Are' on December 6, marking his 10th debut anniversary. He self-directed the 12-track set, with 'Pedazos' as the title track.
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YUQI drops her second mini album '二十七(27)' Oct. 8, backed by a 'TODAY WITH GIGI' popup tour hitting five Chinese-region cities during her fan concert run.
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Young Posse drops their new digital single 'GO해' on October 7 at 6 PM, a five-member rap group channeling vintage old-school hip-hop.
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Roy Kim dropped '크게 울어라' on October 6, his third straight autumn single. A Seoul KSPO DOME tour kicks off later this month.
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IM HERO 2 hit 1.6 billion Melon streams by late September. The 10th-anniversary special IM HERO 10 crossed 100M in 22 days.
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영탁 opened TAK SHOW 5 in Seoul and spoke candidly about his friendship with Im Young-woong, their September album overlap, and his long road through trot.
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Plave's fifth mini album *HYPERDRIVE* arrives digitally Oct. 12, with physical copies the next day. Title track 'Star Trace' already debuted live at their world tour.
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BESTie's '연애의 조건 (Love Options)' hit No. 25 on Oricon's weekly YouTube Shorts chart for Sept 18–24, charting across Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, Singapore, and Japan.
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RESCENE claimed K탑스타's 'Best Rookie (Female)' title for the fourth week running. Mini album 4 'PULSE' arrives November 3.
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Actor-director Lee Yu-jin and actor Cha Kyung-eun are marrying November 14 in Seoul, five months after meeting on his directorial debut.
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Searches for the name are running at 0.6 times the preceding average, but that average was built across a thirty-day stretch that contained an album release, an award, an LCK Finals stage, and a ceremonial first pitch — the multiple is a measure of how high that baseline sits, not of what the current week is doing on its own.
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YG confirms BABYMONSTER's October 23 comeback with a surprise teaser—their first new music in four months since the digital single 'SUGAR HONEY ICE TEA'.
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Coyote's Kim Jong-min is expecting. He quit drinking for a year to make it happen, and he's telling everyone on 'Superman Returns' this Sunday.
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82MAJOR's Nam Seong-mo and Park Seok-jun will narrate high school literature classics for the Ministry of Education and EBS's new audio learning series.
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AND2BLE returns five months after debut with 'Sequence 02: Attraction' on October 27 at 6 PM.
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Eric Nam walked the red carpet at Busan International Film Festival on Oct 6 as a cast member of 'K-Pop: The Debut'. His 4th album drops Oct 16.
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Rothy's five-track EP 'FLAT' arrives October 8 at 6 PM, led by disco-pop single 'Alphabet'—written and composed entirely by Rothy herself.
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