Welcome to another edition of SB Week in Review. Here’s all the news you might have missed over the past week:
Debuts & Comebacks
Legend of the Kitchen Soldier took home the best drama prize at the Blue Dragon Series Awards, while Kim Go-eun was awarded the daesang for her role in You and Everything Else.
Debuts & Comebacks
Young K sang of exhaustion and the relief of arriving home in “Shut the Door.”KARD made their final comeback with “Back to Life.” Keep an eye out for our Where to Now? album review!POW have that “Flavor,” and they know it.The Wind donned football uniforms to “Party Like a Rock Star.”B1A4 celebrated their 15th debut anniversary with “D-Day.”Zelo broke out his dance and English skills for “Ela.“KiiiKiii dropped the pre-release MV for “Candy Pink Magic Hole Flip Phone (What Do I Do).” Why KiiiKiii will be out on August 10.Onewe shared the animated pre-release MV for “The Wake” ahead of their August 19 full-album return with Unknown Atlas.
Teasers & Announcements
Another doomed romance is about to be written for Red Velvet‘s “Surfin’ Boy,” out on August 3.Kiss of Life’s August 3 release of “Sweat” may unintentionally be the sequel to J.Y. Park‘s “Wet.”Dino (as Picheolin) will team up with Hitchhiker for “Let’s Play,” out the same day.Stray Kids‘ This & That will drop on August 7.The track-list is out for ARTMS‘ August 7 release, Hyper-Ego. Also gracing the lineup on August 7 is Dawn with the single “Too Much.”Jung Eunji‘s Summer, I teasers promise a nostalgic look at the season. The MV for “I Love Love” drops on August 11. Enhypen took a serious turn in the first trailer for The Sin: Bliss, the mini album will be released on August 21.Alpha Drive One dropped a stone tablet comeback scheduler for Unbreakable: Beast, also out on the 21st. NCT 127 posted an “action plan” scheduler ahead of Blingy, which drops on August 27.Taemin‘s Phase 1: Soft Violence will round out the month on August 31.
Other News
Yuri left SM Entertainment after 19 years. Seventeen‘s Vernon and DK will begin their military enlistments on August 20 and September 8, respectively.The Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office filed an arrest warrant for One Hundred Label‘s CEO Cha Ga-won for fraud.
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