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BLUE DRAGON SERIES AWARDS · 2026 · MOMENTS The Clips Everyone Is Sharing Happy tears, a real-life couple’s “Day 1,” and a surprise baby reveal The 2026 Blue Dragon Series Awards weren’t just about who won — they were about the moments. Korea’s biggest streaming awards, held July 31 at Paradise City in Incheon and broadcast live on KBS 2TV, turned into a night of happy tears, real-life couples getting mushy on live TV, and one baby announcement nobody saw coming. Here are the clips worth watching, straight from KBS’s official broadcast — plus the context Korean viewers caught in real time. 1. Kim Go-eun Cries Accepting the Daesang 📺 Kim Go-eun accepts the Daesang. Clip: KBS official broadcast. The Daesang (Grand Prize) is the top honor of the entire night — not tied to any single category, just the year’s standout across all streaming series. This year it went to Kim Go-eun , recognized for a run that included Netflix’s Eun-jung and Sang-yeon and Yumi’s Cells . Actress Shin Min-a read...

GOING SEVENTEEN SEASON 2026 JUST PREMIERED Here's Why CARATs Are Already Emotional KPULSE DAILY 📷 Photo: PLEDIS Entertainment · @pledis_17 It's here. A brand new season of "Going Seventeen" premieres today, July 8, and CARATs have been counting down since PLEDIS dropped the 2026 opening title sequence on YouTube exactly a week ago. I've had three different group chats blowing up about this since midnight KST. ▶️ [GOING SEVENTEEN] 2026 Opening Title Sequence © SEVENTEEN / PLEDIS Entertainment What Happened SEVENTEEN's long-running variety web series is officially back for a new season, with the first episode landing today. PLEDIS teased it properly on July 1 with a fresh opening title sequence on the group's official YouTube channel — the kind of small drop that still manages to break timelines because "Going Seventeen" openings are basically an event of their own at this point. The Timing Is Not a Coincidence This season is dropping rig...

IDOL TRAINING CAMP 4 Boy Groups, 24 Idols, and a Spy Game — Everything We Know About MBC M's Chaotic… KPULSE DAILY Okay, this is the kind of variety show concept that should not work on paper and somehow always ends up being the most chaotic, most-clipped content of the season. Four different boy groups. Twenty-four idols who did not train together, do not promote together, and in most cases barely know each other. Thrown into one training camp. With a spy hidden among them. I literally cannot wait. 📺 Official teaser for ‘Idol School Camp’ (아이돌 수련회). Clip: MBC M / Muniverse. What Happened MBC M has confirmed a brand-new K-pop variety program called Idol Training Camp, premiering July 8 at 7PM KST. The cast brings together all 24 members from four rookie boy groups: CLOSE YOUR EYES, AHOF, idntt, and FLARE U. Veteran broadcaster Boom and entertainer Jonathan are joining as the show's instructors, which honestly might be the funniest casting decision of the whole thing, because B...

📷 © Korea.net / KOCIS · CC BY-SA 2.0 SEVENTEEN JOSHUA AT UNESCO PARIS "Don't Let Anyone Belittle Your Dreams" — And CARATs Are Not Okay KPULSE DAILY I literally cannot handle this. Nobody warned us that SEVENTEEN Joshua was going to show up in Paris in a black suit and make every single CARAT cry at a UN building. Nobody prepared us for this moment. And yet here we are. On June 25, 2026, Joshua stood at the podium in UNESCO's main hall in Paris and delivered a six-minute speech on behalf of all 13 SEVENTEEN members. The occasion was "UNESCO x SEVENTEEN: Celebrating Youth, Creativity and Well-Being Together" — a commemorative ceremony marking two years since SEVENTEEN became UNESCO's first-ever Goodwill Ambassadors for Youth. And the speech... okay. Let me compose myself and actually tell you what happened. What Joshua Said — and Why It Hit So Hard Joshua opened by saying it was SEVENTEEN's third visit to UNESCO headquarters, calling it "a place...

📷 © 붕어의 느린걸음 · CC BY 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons) SEVENTEEN CARAT LAND 2026 The Emotional Moments That Made CARATs Cry KPULSE DAILY I need a moment. I genuinely need a moment. SEVENTEEN just held their 10th Carat Land fan meeting at Incheon Asiad Main Stadium — with nine members on stage, military goodbyes looming, and enough emotion to fill a whole stadium. CARATs, are you okay? Because I'm absolutely not. What Happened at Carat Land 2026 Held June 20–21 at Incheon Asiad Main Stadium, this was SEVENTEEN's 10th annual fan meeting — but it felt like nothing before it. With Jeonghan, Wonwoo, Hoshi, and Woozi already enlisted in mandatory military service, only nine members took the stage: S.Coups, Joshua, Jun, DK, Mingyu, The8, Seungkwan, Vernon, and Dino. That number mattered. It was a reminder of how many are already gone — and how many more are about to leave. Mingyu, DK, Seungkwan, Vernon, and Dino are all expected to enlist in the second half of 2026. This wasn't just a fan ...

I.O.I IS BACK Why Their 10th Anniversary Reunion Has the Internet Crying KPULSE DAILY Nine girls. One stage. Ten years in the making. I.O.I just wrapped their 10th anniversary reunion activities — and the K-pop internet has been completely undone. The group that defined a generation of fourth-gen idol fans is back, and everything about it has been devastating in the best possible way. Wait — Who Is I.O.I? If you weren't around in 2016, here's the quick version: I.O.I (아이오아이) debuted through Mnet's Produce 101 Season 1 — the show that let the public vote for 11 members out of 101 trainees to form a temporary project group. The result was an 11-member lineup that became one of the most beloved girl groups of the 3rd generation era. The catch? They were always going to disband. Their contract was for one year. In January 2017, I.O.I said goodbye — and the fandom spent the next nine years hoping they'd come back. Several of those members went on to become massive solo a...

📷 BTS at the White House, 2022 · Public Domain (The White House) BTS BUSAN MOMENTS THAT MADE ARMY CRY Jimin's Teachers, Jin's Speech, and J-Hope's Surprise Stage KPULSE DAILY ARMY, are you okay? Because I'm not. I've watched the Busan concert clips seventeen times and I'm still not okay. The BTS WORLD TOUR 'ARIRANG' Busan shows on June 12 and 13 were already historic — 220,000 fans across two nights, BTS's first return to Busan Asiad Main Stadium since 2022, a sold-out Live Viewing broadcast to cinemas worldwide. But beyond the spectacle, it was the small moments that destroyed us. The ones nobody quite prepared for. Here's the full breakdown of every moment that sent ARMY into emotional freefall. Moment #1: Jimin's Former Teachers Were in the Audience This one. This one right here. During his closing remarks on June 13 — the night of BTS's 13th debut anniversary — Jimin revealed that several of his former teachers from Busan had com...

📷 BTS at the White House, 2022 · Public Domain (The White House) BTS BUSAN DAY 2 ARMY, It's the 13th Anniversary — And They're Home KPULSE DAILY June 13, 2026. BTS's 13th debut anniversary. And tonight, all seven of them are on stage at Busan Asiad Main Stadium — the same stadium where they said goodbye before military service in 2022. ARMY, this one hits different. This is Day 2 of BTS's Busan homecoming on the ARIRANG World Tour. And it's happening today. Right now. Around the world, ARMY are either in that stadium, watching the Live Viewing in cinemas, or losing their minds from home. This is what 13 years looks like. Why Today Is Different From Every Other Concert Day BTS debuted on June 13, 2013. That means tonight's concert — Day 2 in Busan — falls exactly on their 13th anniversary. BigHit didn't schedule this by accident. The 2026 BTS FESTA theme is literally "13(B)TS" — the idea that 13 represents moving beyond the symbolic completeness o...

📷 BTS at the White House, 2022 · Public Domain (The White House) RUN BTS 2.0 IS BACK And ARMY Is Losing It (BTS FESTA 2026) KPULSE DAILY Okay, ARMY. It's here. After years of waiting — through military service, solo eras, and enough emotional preparation to fill a stadium — Run BTS 2.0 officially dropped today, June 11, 2026 , as part of the 13(B)TS FESTA celebrations. And honestly? Nobody was ready. Not even a little bit. The original Run BTS ran from 2015 to 2022, and the last three-part revival installment alone racked up nearly 30 million views on YouTube. So yeah — the bar was already sky-high. BTS just cleared it. What Is Run BTS 2.0? Run BTS was BTS's signature variety series where the members played games, completed challenges, and basically just chaotically existed together on screen. It was the content that turned millions of casual listeners into full-on ARMY. The show went on hiatus in 2022 as members started enlisting one by one. Now, with all seven members fully ...

THE IDOL EFFECT 7 Times K-Pop Stars Caused Massive Sell-Outs Just by Existing KPULSE DAILY There's a phenomenon in Korea so well-documented it has its own name: 아이돌 픽 (Idol Pick) . An idol uses something — eats it, wears it, mentions it in passing — and within hours, that thing is either sold out or on backorder nationwide. Sometimes globally. It's not always a paid deal. It's not always intentional. That's what makes it so wild. Here are 7 times K-pop idols caused absolute chaos in the retail world just by existing. 📷 K-pop fans at KCON — the fandom buying power behind “the idol effect.” Photo: Bonnielou2013 / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). 1. Jungkook Ate Yakgwa — And the World Ran Out of Honey Cookies Traditional Korean yakgwa (약과) — dense honey cookies made from wheat flour, sesame oil, and honey — had been eaten quietly in Korea for centuries. Then BTS's Jungkook was seen eating them. What followed was a phenomenon Korean media named "약-겟팅" (Yak-g...

SEVENTEEN's Wonwoo — the man who actually remembers your name 🥺 By Jamie K  |  June 6, 2026  |  Sweet Moments Fan signs are basically a K-pop rite of passage. You wait months for a slot, rehearse what you're going to say, completely forget it the moment you sit down, and somehow end up crying anyway. But sometimes? The idol surprises you first. Here are 7 fansign moments that fans are still talking about — and honestly, I rewatched every single one of these while writing this. 1. Seventeen's Wonwoo Remembered Her Name — And She Lost It This one is legendary for a reason. A fan attended a Seventeen fansign and when she sat down in front of Wonwoo, he looked at her and said her name — from memory, from a previous event. Not reading it off a tag. Just... knew it. Her reaction was exactly what you'd expect: complete shutdown. The clip went viral fast, and honestly it's proof that Wonwoo pays more attention than any of us realized. Carats were not okay ...

📷 BTS at the White House, 2022 · Public Domain (The White House) SWEET MOMENTS · BTS · JUNE 4, 2026 BTS FESTA 2026 The Sweet Moments Behind the Family Photo That Broke ARMY KPULSE DAILY Okay, ARMY. Can we talk about what actually happened during the BTS FESTA 2026 family photo shoot? Because the official photos are beautiful. But the behind-the-scenes video? That's the part that's going to live in my head forever. Seven grown men. Cannot stop laughing. Not even a little bit. The Couch Photo Nobody Expected to Love This Much When BIGHIT dropped the behind-the-scenes clip alongside today's family photos, fans noticed one thing immediately: the members kept cracking each other up between every single shot. Business casual fits, professional setting, cameras everywhere — and someone (nobody is naming names but we all know it was probably Jimin or Taehyung) keeps saying something that makes the whole group fold. The couch photo, in particular, tells a story. Nobody ...