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Three major K-pop releases — IVE, ILLIT and RIIZE — all land on Oct. 26 as October’s comeback race ramps up, while BLACKPINK’s Lisa drops a six-track EP on Oct. 23 and multiple groups (KickFlip, NMIXX, BABYMONSTER, PLAVE and more) fill out a crowded release calendar

Big Bang, IVE and NCT are among artists staging agency-backed immersive exhibitions that turn fandom into interactive experiences — Big Bang’s 'Cosmos' uses VR and holograms, IVE’s Yujin and Wonyoung curated 'An-Young' with unreleased media and scents, and NCT’s 'Neo Dimension' marks their 10th anniversary

Jang Won-young made her Dior fashion show debut as a newly named Dior ambassador and was photographed greeting longtime Dior ambassador Jisoo of BLACKPINK; IVE will return with the mini-album "Looks Can Kill" on Oct. 26

Jungkook’s solo single “Seven (feat. Latto)” sits at No. 8 on Spotify’s most-streamed songs of the 2020s — the only Asian-artist track in the top 10 — approaching 3.1 billion streams after debuting at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 and Global 200 and setting multiple streaming records

IVE will release their new EP Looks Can Kill on Oct. 26, with a pre-release single due Oct. 19 — their first music since February's Revive+ and following the group's second world tour

IVE will release its fifth EP, Looks Can Kill, on Oct. 26 with a pre-release single due Oct. 19; the announcement came with a teaser projecting the group's name on a Seoul skyscraper and follows their recent world tour and 2nd studio album Revive+

Norwegian songwriter-producer Gucci Caliente (Emily Harbakk), who co-wrote IVE’s 2023 hit “Kitsch,” says embracing fun over formulas changed how she writes K-pop and credits her recent work on tracks for IVE and KiiiKiii; she also names IVE’s An Yujin and aespa as artists she’d like to work with