The song from your short videos has no human singer
Song video · 머무르 MEOMURU
If you have scrolled through Korean short videos lately, you have probably heard it. Meomuru’s “꿈꾸던 어른이 되었나요?” (“Did You Become the Adult You Dreamed Of?”) reached No. 2 on the Melon TOP100 on October 29. The singing voice was generated with Suno AI.
The song came out on June 23 and climbed slowly, to No. 18 on October 2 and No. 3 by mid-October. Plenty of listeners say they liked it first and only found out about the AI vocal later.
The lyrics were written by people. The production team says they wrote the words themselves and reworked the Suno output many times before release. It asks whether you turned into the adult you imagined as a kid, which is a heavy question for a song you hear between cat videos.
Reactions are split. Some say a good song is a good song. Others are uneasy about a track with no human singer sitting near the top of the chart, and Korean media are now asking how music sites should label AI songs.
Netflix’s Dead-End Job pays 50 times the going rate
Official trailer · Netflix
A part-time job that pays 50 times the usual hourly wage sounds great until you ask what the job is. Dead-End Job (꿀알바), out on Netflix since October 30, starts there. Hyeok-jun (Lee Jae-wook) is buried in debt and walks into a strange staffing agency called Spider. Every gig it sends him to goes wrong in a new way.
Each episode moves to a different workplace, some as ordinary as a milk delivery route, but all eight are connected. Go Min-si plays Yeon-ju, who is digging into the agency’s secrets, Kim Min-ha plays Hyeok-jun’s sister Ji-yun, and Lee Hee-jun runs the agency. It is rated for adults and leans fully into horror.
The Korean title is a joke on its own. Kkul-albaa, literally “honey part-time job,” is what Koreans call an easy gig with good pay. Kim Da-min, who wrote A Killer Paradox, directs, and D.P. creator Han Jun-hee oversaw the project.
It started fast. FlixPatrol had it at No. 2 among Netflix TV shows worldwide on November 1, in the top 10 in 86 countries. That is a third-party chart, separate from Netflix’s official weekly list. Lee Jae-wook began his military service in May, so he greeted the press through a video letter.
“Jinjja?” “Gwaenchana”: Korean words in Japanese conversations
Suntory web ad “Kenchana! Baby” with BABYMONSTER’s ASA (May 2026)
On November 1, The New York Times wrote about young people in Japan dropping Korean words into everyday Japanese. One of them, Moeka Takamatsu, a 21-year-old university student and K-pop fan in Tokyo, said she often uses jinjja (“really”) and mianhae (“sorry”) with friends. Gwaenchana (“it’s okay”) caught on for her through social media.
Some fans glue the two languages together. Korean media point to phrases like maji gomawo, which pairs Japanese maji (“seriously”) with Korean gomawo (“thanks”).
Advertisers noticed too. In a Suntory web ad released in May, BABYMONSTER’s ASA watches young dancers rehearse, one falls and gets back up, and the ad is titled “Kenchana! Baby.” If you want the full range of what gwaenchana means, from “it’s fine” to “no thanks,” we have a page on it.
Researchers quoted in the coverage say the habit has grown noticeably since around 2018 and is strongest among K-pop fans, so it is not how all young people in Japan talk. Still, it is fun to see a word from a favorite song turn into something you say to a friend.