The K-Pop Corner

Jade and I discuss Cravity's newest album, Sonorous, their Louder m/v, and our thoughts on their direction and future. Next we go into great detail about our Monsta X concert experiences, tour stops, and my surprise ultimate VIP experience. Buckle up because we had so much to talk about and process together!

We start off talking about Big Ocean, a unique K-Pop group consisting of three members, all of which are hard of hearing. We talk about their latest single, Love Sign, because it's super catchy and the music video is mature, sexy and beautifully shot. They also incorporate sign language into their choreo as well. Then we briefly discuss some of the comebacks going on, Oneus and Cravity as well...

We start with my Omega X concert experience. I was fortunate enough to attend Omega X's concert here in Detroit on a flash sale for $1. I went in with no expectations except to have fun and they absolutely delivered and won my heart! Jade and I go over all the details big and small, and the biggest question of course: who is my bias? Next we discuss all of the exciting new music from Enhypen,...

Jade and I discuss new music from Wayv's album, Vision Wings, their M/V and how happy we are to see their Chinese culture brought to light in their title track. We then talk about concept photos from both SF9 and Monsta X, the latter of which brings up the discussion about the use of AI in K-Pop. If Monsta X has used it before in their promos, us fans have never seen it or caught it as blatant...

Jade and I discuss Wayv's New York concert and their concept photos for their Vision Wings comeback, SF9 and Monsta X's upcoming comebacks and lastly we talk about a sensitive subject so trigger warning. A K-pop fan took their own life after intense online bullying, relentless harassment and death threats from other fans. It prompted a discussion on how toxic fandoms can have deadly real l...

We discuss Wonho's newest album, Core, the music video for his title track, Don't Wake Me Up, and his return to a harder, bangin, dance music. We discuss the beginnings of Wayv's highly anticipated album Vision Wings and their Born This Way concert announcement. We are very excited to see the Chinese roots being included in the imagery. We touch on the Cortis concert discourse going ar...

Jade and I discuss Kihyun's latest solo album Borderline, his emotional and moving music video for his title track, So Good, and other comeback activities, we talk about Wonho's concept photos for his upcoming comeback, Core, then we catch up and discuss EVAN's highly anticipated solo debut with Ride or Die. Lastly, we touch on some recent K-Pop news like Ateez's Bad, Oneus' ne...

Jade and I discuss Shownu and Hyungwon's unit album, Love Me, our disappointment in some of the repetitive English lyrics and our overall impressions, we discuss Zerobaseone's Ascend album, the first after four members had to leave to go back to their original company, which then brought us to the last group And2ble, who are the 4 members from Zerobaseone that left with the addition of Seu...

Jade and I discuss Cravity's new album ReDeFINE as well as their music video for Awake, Monsta X's Shownu X Hyungwon unit comeback, Love Me concept photos and lastly we talk about some Wayv news. Side note: for the first time ever, we will be on a hiatus for a few weeks while Jade is traveling and I'm moving. We will resume recording episode 121, June 12th, and it will be released the...

Jade and I discuss Cravity's ReDeFINE 8th EP concept photos, then we turn to the K-Pop concert season, discussing our ticketing experience for Monsta X, ticket prices and rising costs as well as international tour issues that have resulted in the cancellation of tours and preventing future tour dates from being scheduled.

Jade and I discuss Monsta X's new all English album, Unfold, our thoughts on the music and the Heal music video, we discuss Heeseung's new stage name announcement and other current K-pop news.

Jade and I discuss new music from SF9 & BTS. For BTS, we talk about our expectations for the album versus our current opinions as well as the issues that arose from their concert in Gwanghwamun Square, we discuss the remaining Monsta X concept photos for Unfold, their upcoming all English album, and lastly we discuss the concerning format for Kangmin's (Verivery) solo Lucky Ticket Event an...

Jade and I discuss IVE's full length album, REVIVE+, as well as their music video for Blackhole. We celebrate WJSN finally getting some love with their 10th anniversary single album, Bloom Hour, and Killing Voice appearance, then we discuss Monsta X's concept 1 photos for their all English album Unfold, as well as recent tour news, and lastly we talk about Heeseung’s sudden departure from Enhypen...

Jade and I discuss IVE's pre-release single Bang Bang, Chung Ha's single Save Me and AI visualizer, I.M's Coda crew (I.M, Yoonseok, Wooki & OF'F) released a digital single called IYWO and lastly we talk about recent K-pop news including Zerobaseone and Wayv's Kun discussing SM's staffing shortages on a recent live.

Jade and I discuss the Monsta X Nexus Tour, which kicked off in Korea with three days of concerts. We talk about the members' solo stages, the shocking moment I.M shaved his head on stage, on the last day of the concert and then the sudden announcement of a new song, Growing Pains, releasing very shortly. Lastly, we discuss some upcoming comebacks and other K-Pop events on our radar.

Jade and I discuss four boy group comebacks starting with Oneus' single album and last release under RBW, Alpha Drive One's highly anticipated debut album, Euphoria, EXO's 6 member album, REVERXE, and Enhypen's The Sin: Vanish. Lastly, we discuss JustB's US tour, the crowd funding technique for choosing the top 15 cities and our thoughts on how this method seems to be problemat...

Jade and I discuss Jooheon's (of Monsta X) 2nd EP, Insanity, and the music video for Sting. We then talk about some K-pop updates. Enhypen's The Sin: Vanish comeback, Inseong's (of SF9) solo debut, Onewe digital single + Studio WE upcoming album, Oneus departing from RBW, but remaining as a group + their last comeback under the label, and lastly we briefly discuss the new KBand hrtz.wa...

Jade and I talk about Jooheon's pre-release single Push featuring Rei of IVE, we talk a bit about Jingle Ball and tour info for Monsta X's 2026 world tour, and lastly we discuss our thoughts about Billboard categorizing Katseye as K-Pop, naming them in the top K-Pop artists of 2025, and the key changes Billboard is making to their charting and how it will affect streaming moving forward. H...

Jade and I discuss Monsta X's movie, Connect X, that was showing in movie theaters at the beginning of December, we talk about Wayv's exciting new music from their album, Eternal White and then we wrap things up with our wishes and things we like to see or not see in K-Pop for 2026.

Jade and I discuss Heize's new title track, Love Virus, featuring I.M of Monsta X, Wayv's photo concepts and scheduler for their Eternal White comeback, Monsta X's world tour announcement, and lastly, we discuss the end of year award shows, the controversies and lack of excitement.

Jade and I discuss Wonho's full length album, Syndrome, the fact that it's almost all English and our thoughts on his musical journey since his solo debut, we talk about Cravity's newest repackaged album Dare to Crave: Epilogue, which features 3 new songs in addition to the previous Dare to Crave album songs, lastly we discuss Monsta X's all English single, Baby Blue, speculate abo...

Jade and I discuss the surprising release of Shownu's new OST, As You Wish, for the Reality TV show Transit Love, we talk Onewe's latest EP, Maze:Ad Astra, and UFO being our standout track. We then delve into our expectations for Wonho's first full album, called Syndrome, and we discuss the recent cancellation of the US leg of his tour and the unexpected announcement of his US fan sign...

Jade and I discuss the trajectory of K-Pop, it's current evolution and where we think it may or may not be headed. The genre as a whole, is only getting stronger and more popular with time so the question is whether it will burn itself out, and if not, what kind of music will it be and what will it look like in the future?

Jade and I discuss the music side of Monsta X's, The X, album, our thoughts on pre-releases and the Monstas past and upcoming schedules, we discuss Junhee's mini album, The First Day & Night, which quickly dropped soon after his very exciting single Supernova, and lastly we talk about WJSN's Dayoung's long over due solo debut, her title track, Body, and corresponding music vide...

Jade and I discuss IVE's new album IVE Secret and the MV for XOXZ, we also talk about the song and M/V for Monsta X's pre-release I Do What I Want and lastly we talk about the continued globalization of K-Pop with the rumors of a coed unit from SM made of existing members of other groups, and a coed group from Hybe as well, while also announcing the launch of their second global girl group...