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Dex Announces a Break for Now From YouTube Activity With 1.16 Million Subscribers…“A Time for Choice and Focus”

Dex Announces a Break for Now From YouTube Activity With 1.16 Million Subscribers…“A Time for Choice and Focus”

Dex said he will take a break through his YouTube channel ‘Dex101,’ laying out his worries about his identity and saying he has no plans to return this year With him balancing variety shows, acting and YouTube, he says it’s “unclear which field is his biggest strength” and that this is “the timing to choose and focus” After ‘Single Inferno 2,’ he points to a new act as actor Kim Jin-young, with upcoming projects including ‘The Hunt Dogs 2’
Broadcaster Dex directly explained why he is pausing his YouTube activities. A sudden rest announcement from a YouTube veteran of six years On the 18th, Dex’s YouTube channel ‘Dex101’ released a video titled ‘I’m going to put a comma on my 7-year YouTube journey—Off Dex with 95z.
| Seongchan Eol
Even a U.S. Pop Star Cancels Shows—But BTS’s World Tour Returns After 7 Years With Every Ticket Sold Out in a Frenzy

Even a U.S. Pop Star Cancels Shows—But BTS’s World Tour Returns After 7 Years With Every Ticket Sold Out in a Frenzy

As the U.S. live-music industry grapples with a shortage of remaining seats driven by high inflation, BTS’s first tour in seven years sells out every show and turns the entire city into a festival
The U.S. live music industry—the heart of the global concert business—has hit an unprecedented deep freeze. Amid the fallout from punishing inflation and ticket-price hikes that have derailed major pop stars’ tours one after another, “BTS”’s North American and European tour has been delivering...
| James choi
IVE Jang Wonyoung Targets Malicious Commenters to the End, Starship Says It Will Identify the Authors Through “International Joint Investigation”

IVE Jang Wonyoung Targets Malicious Commenters to the End, Starship Says It Will Identify the Authors Through “International Joint Investigation”

Online tracking will extend through international cooperation, from domestic communities to overseas platforms, to demand strong legal accountability.
A modern societal ailment in which people hide behind the chilling mask of anonymity and slash at others’ character. The idol standing at the center of that violence often becomes a modern-day scapegoat, reflecting the public’s warped cravings and sense of deprivation.
| James choi
Hong Kong Retro Movie Tour ① John Woo’s “A Better Tomorrow” and a History Lesson at Mei Ho House, San Shui Po

Hong Kong Retro Movie Tour ① John Woo’s “A Better Tomorrow” and a History Lesson at Mei Ho House, San Shui Po

Built in 1953 after the “Sekkipmei Fire,” the sprawling public housing complex known as “Mei Ho House” became the stage for 〈A Better Tomorrow〉.
Cineplay and House Travel teamed up for a Hong Kong movie tour, their fifth trip. The core theme of this tour was the meeting of Hong Kong’s past and present through film. From John Woo’s 〈A Better Tomorrow〉 (1990), set in 1960s Hong Kong and starring Tony Leung Chiu-wai, to 〈The King of Comedy〉...
| Joo Seong-cheol
Overwhelms With 8 Times the Views… Netflix’s “Chamgyoyuk” Seizes Global No. 1 for a Second Straight Week

Overwhelms With 8 Times the Views… Netflix’s “Chamgyoyuk” Seizes Global No. 1 for a Second Straight Week

Starring Kim Mu-yeol, “Chamgyoyuk” hits viewers across 91 countries and holds the top spot for the second consecutive week, as a surge in K-content hits hard, including the AI film “Mid-dle-world.”
An Extrajudicial Bludgeon Against a Tyrannical Classroom, and the Sociology of the Catharsis Taking the World by Storm The collapse of public education in modern society is not a problem unique to South Korea. The decline of teacher authority and classrooms that are out of control have become signs...
| James choi
BTS Raises Grammy Expectations With New “Asian Pop” Category, First Win Looks Promising

BTS Raises Grammy Expectations With New “Asian Pop” Category, First Win Looks Promising

Next year’s Grammy Awards will add an “Asian Pop” category, fueling hopes that BTS and other South Korean acts will win for the first time
For years, "the Grammy Awards" has sat atop Western cultural dominance as the most firmly fortified stronghold. It marked a historic turning point as Asian melodies, once dismissed as a fringe of the mainstream music market, moved into the heart of global cultural power.
| James choi
18-Year-Old Muan County Council Candidate Oh Shin-haeng Makes Instant Debut as Japan Idol 'KO1KEYZ'

18-Year-Old Muan County Council Candidate Oh Shin-haeng Makes Instant Debut as Japan Idol 'KO1KEYZ'

Oh Shin-haeng, who ran in local elections four years ago at age 18, debuts with KO1KEYZ after finishing fourth in a Japanese audition
From establishment politics to the front line of pop culture: a young man’s audacious path Self-fulfillment for today’s youth no longer follows a single, straight track. A 10-year-old youth who once threw himself into 'establishment politics' with dreams of transforming the local community has now...
| James choi
BTS, Blackpink, GD sweep top categories at Japan’s

BTS, Blackpink, GD sweep top categories at Japan’s "Music Awards Japan 2026"

BTS’s Jin and G-Dragon win, while producer 250 takes three crowns including an album featuring 250—proof of K-pop’s clout
Cultural power that erases borders, and the aesthetics of the hyperconnected era proven by K-pop The awards ceremony "Music Awards Japan 2026"—created by Japan’s pop music industry to loosen conservative gatekeeping and establish new authority—ended up being a stage that acknowledged K-pop’s...
| James choi
PLAVE Holds Stadium Concert as the First-Ever Virtual Idol to Do So

PLAVE Holds Stadium Concert as the First-Ever Virtual Idol to Do So

Incheon’s main venue confirmed for a stadium show just 10 months after the group’s debut at Gocheok Sky Dome. The first world tour begins in September in Incheon.
The terrain of modern popular culture has once again pushed past a critical threshold of upheaval. The unprecedented situation is that those who do not exist yet exist nonetheless have taken over the most physical, massive space imaginable—ironically, on a stage of their own.
| James choi
BTS Takes Over Busan…Foreigners Spend 2 Times More at Traditional Markets, Hotel Bills ‘Rip-Off Fees’

BTS Takes Over Busan…Foreigners Spend 2 Times More at Traditional Markets, Hotel Bills ‘Rip-Off Fees’

With foreign card payments up 73%, sales at traditional markets jump 2-fold…Data also sheds light on ‘rip-off pricing’ at lodging businesses
A pilgrimage for pop culture—and a find of the most ‘Korean’ kind of spending ‘Bangtan Sonyeondan’’s arrival in Busan sparked sociological meaning far beyond a massive concert. The fan frenzy that gathered from around the world—the so-called ‘ARMY’—was a giant testbed showing how modern pop culture...
| James choi