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UDTT debuted 'VIPER' on Mnet M Countdown July 2, bringing their second single album to music broadcast stages.
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Jeon Hye-won lands her first leading role in KBS 2TV's *Trap of Desire*, opposite Jang Seo-hee, premiering early August after *Red Pearl*.
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Trot singer Yang Ji-won signed an exclusive contract with Line Entertainment on July 2, joining a roster of comedians and entertainers.
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At the third hearing in Ador's damages suit, the agency argued Daniel alone pursued solo musician and commercial activities and refused to correct the breaches.
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Chungju Jissi returns with *AQUA* a year after *Milkshake*, hitting all three major music shows on the same day.
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Producer duo Groovy Room is heading to the altar. Park Gyu-jeong confirmed a fall 2026 wedding, weeks after partner Lee Hwi-min announced his engagement.
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Song Ga-in drops her third Song Ga-in X Legend Project single on July 2: samba house meets trot, plus an AI-made music video.
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TWS drops their second Japanese single 'SODA SODA' on July 4. Three members wrote the title track.
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AxMxP, FNC's four-member rookie band, shared behind-the-scenes footage from their debut single MV on July 1. Festival dates in Goyang and Incheon follow.
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Seo In-young and Jo Min-ah, both former Jewelry members, settled their feud over Seo's 2023 wedding in a July 1 YouTube video as she prepares to remarry this year.
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LE SSERAFIM becomes the first K-pop girl group to perform at the 2026 iHeartRadio Music Festival, taking the stage Sept. 18 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
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LE SSERAFIM is dropping *Sound Coin*, a six-piece collectible set shaped like coins, covering every album from *FEARLESS* to *HOT*. Out July 10.
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Baek A-yeon dropped digital single '들어봐' on June 29 and performed it live on M Countdown on July 2 — her first music broadcast in roughly 3 years.
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BbGirl (브브걸) return with new single 'BODY WAVE' on July 16 — their first release since the May 2025 remake '희망사항'.
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Chae Jong-hyeop plays a mysterious seaside villa caretaker opposite Hashimoto Kanna in *Vacance no Housoku*. The drama premieres in Japan on July 27, hits Netflix globally on July 31.
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가희 drops praise dance single '시편 24편 King of Glory' on December 1; 이미쉘 follows with debut album 'bliss' on December 10.
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Actor Kang Ha-neul is the new face of Babytalk's summer 2026 campaign as the medical beauty platform hits 10 million cumulative app downloads.
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Kim Seung-hwa, known for *Pachinko* and *The Glory*, has signed with Make It Studio. She'll walk the red carpet at the 30th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival on July 2.
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CHUU dropped the indie pop single 'RULE (feat. Heize)' on July 2, her first new music since the solo album 'XO, My Cyberlove' in January.
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ZB1 returns to Japan 10 months after 'ICONIK' with a 3-track EP themed 'circling back to you,' featuring collaboration with piano trio Omoinotake.
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CORTIS's 'GREENGREEN' hits No. 94 on the July 4 Billboard 200, marking the longest chart run for any K-pop boy group that debuted in the last five years.
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Lee Ye-ji, winner of '우리들의 발라드', debuts as a solo artist with an all-black look and a soul R&B single dropping July 6.
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'REDRED' hit No. 2 on Melon's June monthly chart. CORTIS is only the fifth boy group in a decade to reach that position.
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Song Ha-ye's remake single hit No. 2 on YouTube Music's daily MV chart six days after its June 25 release, kicking off her new '사랑 이야기' project.
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ODDINARY and ATE both crossed 1 billion Spotify streams, giving Stray Kids six such albums — second-most among K-pop groups — before their Aug 7 comeback.
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KBS 2TV's crime thriller *Completion of Marriage* launches July 4 at 9:20 PM. Lee Seol credits Nam Goong-min's willingness to run lines off-set for deepening her performance.
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HYNN (박혜원) plays Yonsei University Grand Hall August 15–16, 2026. Tickets drop July 6 on Ticketlink.
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GMA announced June 30 that Yeonjun will perform on the Summer Concert Series — the second K-pop solo act after BTS Jungkook in 2023.
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After 30 years on screen, Cha In-pyo makes his stage debut as John Keating in the Korean premiere of 'Dead Poets Society', July 18–Sept 13 at NOL Theater Daehak-ro.
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B1A4's Sandeul joined MBC Radio Star's '국가대표 아들들' special on July 1, dishing on behind-the-scenes moments from the musical '그날들'.
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Byun Yo-han caught Tiffany Young's musical performance and posted a photo with praise on SNS.
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Kim Gyu-jong, an SS501 and FIVE O ONE member, shared a performance preview on July 1 ahead of his new solo single 'Simply Beautiful.'
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Seo In-guk, Kang Han-na, Lee Eun-ji, and Cardi Garden are back for Netflix's *모태솔로지만 연애는 하고 싶어* (Never Been in Love) Season 2, dropping July 7.
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BIG Naughty dropped his second pre-release single with Jay Park on July 1, two weeks before his first-ever solo concert at Seoul Jangchung Gymnasium.
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WINNER's Kang Seung-yoon is joining KBS 2TV's weekend drama *학교 다녀왔습니다*, airing in the first half of next year. His first acting role since 2022.
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Ong Seong-wu plays villain Kang Min-hwan in tvN's occult romance drama *Osinghan Yeonae*, directed by Lee Min-soo and written by Choi Jung-mi.
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HJ Culture's rap musical *Socrates Paradox* runs September 10 to November 29 at NOL Seogyeong Square Skon Theater 1 in Seoul, with eight actors rotating the two lead roles.
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Kim Bo-gyeong released the pop ballad '별의 요람 (Twilight)' on July 1, her first track since signing with agency MUMW.
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Kim Geon-mo releases '어디쯤 가고 있을까' on July 1 — his first official new music since the 2016 album '50', and the first time he plays guitar on record.
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BTS scored 6,944,728 in the Korean Corporate Reputation Research Institute's June 2026 ranking, edging out RISENEE and Lim Young-woong.
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Former T-ara member and actress Ryu Hwayoung shared wedding photos on June 30, confirming a September 12 marriage to a businessman three years her senior.
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'Winter Ahead (with Park Hyoshin)' hit 700M Spotify streams in Nov 2024, joining V's 'Love Me Again' in rare territory.
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TWICE's Jihyo and Jamaican pop star Cencia team up for 'Distant Lover,' dropping July 10 through Musicow's Roc Nation-backed FANDOM project.
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Lim So-yoon signs with Management Reddo and joins JTBC's 'Apartment' as Oh Yun-seo.
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A Seoul columnist pairs Netflix's 'True Education' with a 1909 Swiss novel to ask what education actually does to us.
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idntt expands to 20 members for 'itsnotover', arriving July 13 with a full promo run and same-day showcase.
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Eleven years later, Yu Seong-eun returns with 'The Meteor Is Glowing' — a six-track album that's spawned two vocal challenges drawing artists across generations.
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King Gnu, HIVE, and other acts saw shows disrupted or cancelled after protesters blockaded Seoul Olympic Park's Handball Stadium following the June 3 election ballot shortage.
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