BTS member V asked fans on Weverse to stop visiting the hotels where BTS is staying during the Arirang world tour, saying he values private time in cities and that hotel visits could affect his rest and performances
Boy group Close Your Eyes was chosen as the sixth artist in Billboard Korea’s project, with beach-shot photos released and additional short-form videos and a pop-up store planned. The seven-member act (debuted April 2025) will resume its Beyond Your Eyes North American tour in October
Heize and P Nation have mutually agreed to end their six-year exclusive contract, which expired June 30; Heize is now a free agent. During her time at P Nation she released tracks including "Happen," "Round and Round" and "Lips."
TWICE opened a summer-themed pop-up at Plat1399 Studio in Seoul through July 12 to celebrate the Seoul finale of their sixth world tour THIS IS FOR, offering exclusive merchandise, interactive exhibits and fan events ahead of three sold-out KSPO DOME concerts July 10–12
SM Entertainment announced Jaehee of NCT Wish and Yuha of Hearts2Hearts recorded the duet "Open Your Eyes" for the film Teenieping: Legend of the Whale Heartstone (opens Aug. 5). NCT Wish will drop a Japan single July 15 and Hearts2Hearts are running a Seoul pop-up for their EP
Stray Kids' sixth EP Oddinary and ninth EP Ate each surpassed one billion Spotify streams, giving the group six albums to hit the milestone—the second-most among K-pop acts after BTS. The octet has five Seoul shows planned and will roll out their tenth EP, This & That, in August
INFINITE’s Kim Myung Soo and actress/former girl group member Kang Min Ah lead romcom Love in Sync, in which their characters begin sharing emotions via a supernatural phenomenon and each faces a career crisis; the series premieres July 4 at 10:50 p.m. KST
Circle Chart’s June 14–20 rankings saw RIIZE earn a double crown with mini album II and title track “Do your dance,” I.O.I and CORTIS place high on digital charts, BTS top the global K-pop chart with “SWIM,” and ILLIT lead the social chart
The RIAJ certified TWS's Korean mini album NO TRAGEDY as platinum (250,000+ shipments) in Japan, while IVE's Japanese EP LUCID DREAM and CORTIS's Korean EP GREENGREEN were each certified gold (100,000+ shipments)
NouerA announced the Taipei stop of their 2026 "CATCH THE WAVE" world tour, originally set for July 5, has been unavoidably postponed due to administrative procedures; the agency says refund and ticket details will be announced via the official ticketing platform
KARD announced their first full-length album, Where To Now? (Part.2) : NOWHERE, will be released on July 28 at 6 p.m. KST; the group revealed the comeback with a teaser posted at midnight KST on July 2
Sunmi confirmed a July comeback, announcing she will release a new digital single later this month and sharing the first teasers for "Summer Comes Again," though an exact release date has not been revealed