After a break for the Chuseok holiday, welcome to a double-update edition of SB Week in Review. Here’s all the news you might have missed over the past week:

Headlines

• BTS won three awards at the MTV Video Music Awards, including Song of the Year and Group of the Year.
• Song Mino was sentenced to one year in prison, suspended for two years for violating the Military Service Act.
• T.O.P and Nana confirmed they have been dating since June.

Debuts & Comebacks

• Allday Project came back with MVs for multiple songs: “Talk,” “Do It Like This,” and “Crash.”
• Ehypen dropped a B-side MV for “Stuck.”
• Yesung put out the pre-release “Winds of Time.”
  • His second full album will reflect on Where We Are on October 6.
• Oneus asked listeners to “Say Yes!”
• &Team dropped “Good Boy,” featuring songwriting contributions from Cortis.
• Unis released “Milky Way,” their last comeback before disbandment.
• BTS officially released an MV for “Merry Go Round” after it premiered exclusively on Spotify.
• Kickflip dropped a pre-release MV for “Puzzle Piece” ahead of their October 6 album Kick Off the Wall Pt. 1.
• BoyNextDoor got loud with “Animal.”
• Minzy returned with the soaring ballad “Calling.”
• Niziu released a Korean title track, “Sour Grapes.”
• Wooah came back with an animated MV for “Voodoo Doll.”
• Keyveatz boasted that they are ‘tellin’ the world’ with “A1ㄱ.”
• Close Your Eyes mixed jazz and hip hop in “Drop That!”
• Cravity presented a mythic concept in the MV for “Louder.”
• TIOT leaned into rock with “Five Hours in Pieces.”

Teasers & Announcements

• Hwang Minhyun will return with “Our” on October 7.
• Onew and Zico will team up for “Tic Tac Toe,” out on October 7.
• NCT Wish began to promote I Spy, out on October 12.
• Modyssey will follow up their debut with 2. Multitude: How We Bloom on October 12.
• Xdinary Heroes will release Impulse, their first comeback as a five-member group, that same day.
• Sung Hanbin revealed the tracklist for his first solo EP Dead: Alive, also out on October 12.
• Meovv promise to Go Hard with their October 12 single.
• Plave will go into Hyperdrive to distinguish themselves from the other October 12 comebacks.
• Yuju will return with File. 07 on October 14.
• Teen Top seek to regain momentum with Don’t Stop on October 15.
• Seventeen’s Jeonghan x Joshua will make their subunit debut on October 19 with Dreamscape.
• NMixx will also return with Strange Muse on October 19.
• Max Changmin will also drop All of My Life, his first official comeback since 2022, on October 19.
• Ive will come back with Looks Can Kill on October 26, with a pre-release single out on October 19.
• Evnne will join the slew of October 19 releases with On: Our Noise.
• Illit intend to Break Even with their October 26 comeback.
• Xlov dropped a cinematic trailer for i=!, out on October 28.
• Tomorrow x Together will unleash The Perfect Storm on November 16.
• Fin.K.L will reportedly reunite after a 21-year absence.

Other News

• New, formerly of The Boyz, signed a solo contract with Only New Entertainment.
• Taemin postponed his North American tour due to uncertainty surrounding issuance of U.S. visas for key personnel.
• Winter sat out performances in Aespa‘s U.S. tour following a shingles diagnosis.

(YouTube. Naver: [1][2][3][4][5]. X. Weverse. Images via Pledis Entertainment, SM Entertainment, Only New Entertainment).