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Jang Han-byeol released the emotional ballad 'Miya' on Oct. 12, her first new music in five months, with a live debut set for her sold-out solo concert.
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Ji Yeon-su left her gomtang restaurant job due to a torn muscle injury. Now she's pivoting to live shopping and says she'll return to work once recovered.
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Lee Eun-sang's debut solo mini-album drops October 21. Brand New Music starts the rollout October 14 with a week of teasers.
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Justus Eichhorn, 16, a pianist from Weimar, hit No. 1 on Germany's classical chart with debut album 'The Source' and has 800K+ SNS followers.
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Six months after hitting 360K first-week sales, Psycho returns with 'Dynamite' and five more tracks on their 8th mini album.
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U-KNOW wrapped his first solo Asian tour across 8 cities and now heads to four Japanese arena stops through December.
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Kim Jaehwan performed duets on JTBC's 'Begin Again Open Mic' on Oct. 11, just four days after releasing his single 'Love, From Here'.
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SF9 marked a decade with two 210-minute nights at Seoul KBS Arena on Oct. 10–11. They're heading to Hong Kong on Nov. 8.
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BLACKPINK's Jennie surprised The Weeknd's Seoul crowd on August 8, performing "One Of The Girls" live for the first time since the 2023 studio collab.
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Actor Won Tae-min plays Han Jeong-hun in the 10th anniversary run of musical 'Gone Tomorrow,' Sept 15–Nov 29, 2026 at Hongik University Daehakro Art Center.
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Singer Tabber (Kim Hyun-jun) is taking the 'MODERN GOTH TABBER EU TOUR' to Warsaw, London, Amsterdam, Berlin, Cologne, and Paris this October.
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QWER's stage cam from their second tour Seoul stop hit 4.01 million YouTube views by October 12, just three weeks after uploading on September 21.
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The trot singer joins the Monday night food show on Oct. 12, hitting a 37-year-old gopchang institution in Guri and sharing an audition story about a 300,000-won suit.
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Ren of five-member boy group CHASER told a fan "you keep annoying me" after she said she'd been waiting for him. Howling Entertainment's CEO posted a public apology the same day.
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PENTAGON sold out their first Seoul solo concert in ~7 years at Blue Square. The 101010 tour hits Hong Kong, Amsterdam, Paris, and Berlin next month.
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NCT WISH's fourth mini album 'I SPY' and its title track MV dropped Oct. 12, marking their first comeback since April's 'Ode to Love'.
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Jeon Yu-jin dropped her debut full-length album 'Adios' on October 10, with the title track music video going live simultaneously on YouTube.
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Kim Gura revealed on YouTube that his daughter's enrollment at Songdo International School has him commuting between Incheon and Goyang.
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머무르's rock ballad '꿈꾸던 어른이 되었나요?', with vocals produced via AI service Suno, reached No. 5 on Melon's Top 100 on October 12 — the first AI-assisted track to crack the chart's upper tier.
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The 'trot queen' marks 14 years with a July dance-trot single, a sold-out Vietnam concert, and two OST placements.
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LNGSHOT's second EP lands November 10, 10 months after a debut that hit 100M Spotify streams in 38 days and made Billboard's 2026 Best K-Pop Albums list.
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SM Entertainment founder Lee Soo-man returns to a Korean stage Oct. 12 at KINTEX to unveil two new A2O Entertainment groups.
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BTS's ARIRANG world tour hit $500M in cumulative revenue after three sold-out nights in Lima, Peru, according to Billboard Boxscore.
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MODYSSEY dropped their first EP on October 12, six months after debuting in April with a single that moved 300,000 copies in its first week.
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Director-writer Kim Do-hoon's 'Final Table' hits JTBC on October 24 at 10:40 PM, with Disney+ and Amazon Prime Video handling streaming.
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PLAVE drops 'HYPERDRIVE' on October 12 with five tracks led by 'Star Trace,' their first EDM title track.
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Kim Min-jong withdrew his defamation complaint against MC Mong on SBS's 'Miwoosae'—and revealed what it cost him in Hollywood.
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Seventeen's vocal unit dropped a 12-second choreography preview for '12 o'clock' on Oct. 12. The mini album DREAMSCAPE arrives Oct. 19 at 6 PM.
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Actress Cha Kyung-eun and director Lee Yu-jin are getting married November 14—five months after they started dating. They're also expecting.
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Hong Jin-young posted an AI-synthesized video on Oct 11, joking the result didn't look like her — her older sister Hong Sun-young had thoughts.
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Less than two years after debut, KickFlip drops their fifth mini album with two title tracks and songs pulled straight from the members' own lives.
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Kim Yong-ji married in a hanok courtyard on Oct. 11. Classmate Kim Go-eun shared the first photos.
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Trot singer Kim Su-chan, 31, performed at Seongnam's outdoor festival and is now competing for the October champion slot on *Trot Champion*.
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Charlie Puth's 'Whatever's Clever!' world tour hit Goyang Sports Complex on Oct. 11, marking his first stadium-scale solo concert in South Korea.
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Lee Hi ran through her hits at a solo Seoul concert on Oct. 3, then closed with a first look at upcoming single 'KAI'.
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The Miss Trot 3 Top 7 finalist balances farming and singing in Haenam. She released three tracks in March 2025 and has been hitting KBS stages regularly.
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Taeyong is working with choreographers on a 'Wacka Wak' stage for Street World Fighter, weeks after dropping his first full-length album 'WYLD'.
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AKMU wrapped their Seoul stand at KSPO DOME on Oct. 11, drawing 30,000 across three nights before heading out on a five-city national tour through December.
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Noh Jiseon posted a photo to Instagram on Oct. 11 in a grey knit dress, captioning it with a simple craving: "I need sugar."
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Soyou shared concert photos on Oct. 11, offering a rare glimpse into her life during the *Off Hours* EP era.
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Ji Ye-eun, marrying dancer Bata on December 12, announced her bride-to-be status while seasoning the group's dinner on SBS Running Man's Cheorwon trip.
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Kim Hyun-joo opened up about early-career resentment, two years without a manager, and why she stepped back from variety shows.
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XLOV returns five months later with *i=!*, a five-track mini album steeped in heavy bass, hyperpop, and black-and-red aesthetics.
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Nine days after going public with TOP, Nana broke her social media silence on October 11, 2026.
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(G)I-DLE's Soyeon swept three music broadcast wins with 'Twesa Halgeyo (Narr. 기안84)', topping her 2021 double-crown from '삠삠' and achieving a Perfect All-Kill.
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Jang Han-byul's 'Miya' arrives October 12. Next up: a KBS 'Immortal Songs' taping and three solo concerts at Sejong University Daeyang Hall.
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Xdinary Heroes drop 'IMPULSE' on October 12 with title track 'Obsessed with Youth'. They're playing Incheon Inspire Arena November 13–15.
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Le Sserafim wrapped their US PUREFLOW dates at Newark's Prudential Center on Sept. 8 with 8 of 9 cities sold out, then headed to London's The O2 on Sept. 16.
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