The K-Pop Corner

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...

Jade and I discuss Junhee's Supernova solo debut, all of the concert woes happening, such as booking too big of venues, lack of sales, closing sections and the over saturation of the market to name a few, we talk about Monsta X's post military and exciting comeback "The X" as well as their performance at KCON and the event as a whole.

Jade and I discuss Ateez's latest comeback Golden Hour: Part 3 In Your Fantasy Edition, Wayv's 7th mini album, Big Bands, we discuss Boys II Planet as well as the recent drama in the Monbebe fandom that resulted from changes in the membership/kits and lastly we talk about all the fun things Monsta X is up to post military era.

It’s comeback time! Jade and I delve into Cravity’s highly anticipated full-length album Dare to Crave. We also discuss ONEUS’s new mini album 5x , their upcoming tour, and how they’re navigating as a four member group. We discuss Wonho’s all-English single Better Than Me and his exciting world tour. And lastly to finish off the comebacks, we discuss KARD’s bold and sexy title track Touch , and th...

We made it to episode 100! Thank you so much for tuning in and supporting us on this incredible journey! In this episode, Jade and I kick things off by diving into Cravity’s thought-provoking comeback. Then, we shift gears to celebrate our 100th episode with a fun trivia game we put together, comparing our top 5 lists in various categories, and to wrap it up, we react to debut music videos from th...

Jade and I discuss the latest Japanese releases from Monsta X and Ten, Enhypen's Desire:Unleash album and Bad Desire (With or Without You) M/V, and wrap it up with the latest news about Cravity's new logo, leader change and upcoming 2nd full length album, A.C.E.'s individual activities & Wonho's recent concert in Oklahoma.

Jade and I discuss all of the happenings with Monsta X, now that all the members are back from the military, we discuss Enhypen's Desire:Unleash comeback and lastly we end with a new segment called K-Pop Corner rant.

Katseye released a new song called Gnarly, that has become a hot topic so Jade and I decided to discuss the lyrics, the overall song, choreography and just who is their demographic? The rest of the episode is dedicated to an in depth review of the Onewe concert I (Kendra), went to in Detroit as well as the Leo Presents "Everything" package I purchased. Even if you don't know or like...