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BTS's official channel, BANGTANTV, posted a teaser on September 30 for a new episode set in Toronto. In the video, the members sit around a park and talk about trying the games they used to play on school picnics. There's a running game, followed by a Korean-style game of tag. The banter turns playful, too, as they debate whether it's better to throw water or get hit with it as a penalty.

Later in the clip, the members trade rallies in a pickleball match. They've said themselves that they recently got hooked on the sport while on the world tour.

The air dates, per SBS, are October 6 and 11, both at 8 p.m. Korea time. That said, a late-March report said the first teaser for 'Run BTS 2.0' dropped March 30 and that the first episode would air April 7 at 9 p.m. Outlets differ on the season format and dates, so the safest move is to check the official channel for the exact schedule.

'Run BTS' began in 2015 as a self-produced variety show where the members take on games and missions themselves. It ran 155 episodes through 2021 and drew about 140 million views. In 2022 and 2023, 10 special episodes came out separately and passed roughly 130 million views. Jin also launched a spinoff, 'Run Seokjin,' in 2024 and 2025. The series returned after a three-year break, following April's album 'Arirang' and new single 'SWIM,' which both hit No. 1 on Billboard's album and singles charts.

Namoo Actors announced the marriage of Koo Kyo-hwan and director Lee Ok-seop on October 1. The paperwork was filed in 2022, so the news came out roughly four years later. Koo is 44 and Lee is 39. The couple skipped a ceremony and handled only the legal formalities.

The agency said the two support each other as colleagues at work and as family at home. It added that they will keep meeting audiences with new work in their own fields.

The pair are alumni of the Seoul Institute of the Arts. They grew close in 2013 while making the short film *4th Grader Bo-kyung* (title translated literally), and they became a couple. Since then they've made a string of shorts and features together, including *Maggie* and *Romeo: The Crime of Having Eyes* (literal title). They went public with the relationship in 2020. Their roughly nine years together, from 2013 to 2022, ended in marriage.

The collaboration is ongoing. They co-run a YouTube channel, '2x9HD Koo Kyo-hwan × Lee Ok-seop,' and have posted videos as recently as this month. Both have also been credited on projects like *Your Country*, starring Jang Do-yeon, and *The Love Counselor*, featuring Lee Na-young (both titles translated literally).

Art lover RM's collection is heading to a museum wall for the first time. San Francisco's SFMOMA has announced a collaborative show opening Oct. 3, subtitled 'Between You and Me,' that runs through Feb. 7, 2027. SFMOMA, which opened in 1935, is one of the best-known modern and contemporary art museums in the US.

In all, about 180 works are on view. Roughly 140 come from the collection RM has been building for nearly a decade, and the rest are drawn from the museum's own holdings. RM's collection centers on modern and contemporary Korean artists, including Yun Hyong-keun, Chang Ucchin, Yoo Youngkuk, Kim Tschang-yeul and Do Sang-bong. Yun, reportedly a particular favorite of RM's, gets a dedicated gallery with 16 works.

RM was more than a lender. Working with SFMOMA curators América Castillo and Hyoeun Kim, RM chose the works and shaped the flow of the show. RM wrote the wall texts and object labels in both Korean and English, and recorded the audio guide in both languages. The music playing in the galleries is RM's pick, too. RM has described the show as a long introduction to who RM is.

The most striking part is the way works from different eras and places are set up in pairs. Kim Whanki's blue dot painting hangs alongside a sponge sculpture by Yves Klein, famous for his signature blue, inviting a comparison of how color is used to contemplate the cosmos and infinity. Do Sang-bong's still life is matched with a flower painting by Giorgio Morandi, and Yun's work with a piece by minimalist Donald Judd. Yun and Judd actually knew each other, so that pairing carries a personal connection.

The collecting began in 2018. In an August interview with The New York Times, RM recalled seeing Western masterpieces at the Art Institute of Chicago during a US tour and feeling embarrassed at how little RM knew about Korea's own artists. Determined to find those roots, RM began seeking out Korean artists, and that journey led to this show.

'Assassin(s)' hit theaters on Sept. 23, just ahead of the Chuseok (Korean harvest holiday) break. On the 29th, former Seoul city councilor Lee Jong-bae submitted paperwork to the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency accusing director Heo Jin-ho, the studio's CEO and the screenwriter of defamation. Lee argues that the film steers its story so that former President Park Chung-hee appears to be the man behind the killing. He also pointed to the title, plural rather than singular, as a hint that perpetrators other than Moon Se-kwang may have been involved.

The film draws on a shooting at a 1974 Liberation Day ceremony that killed Yuk Young-soo, the first lady at the time. The man named as the gunman, Moon Se-kwang, was a second-generation Korean resident of Japan. Investigators concluded that he acted on orders from North Korea and Chongryon, the pro-Pyongyang association of Koreans in Japan. The film views that conclusion, and what lay behind it, with suspicion, and even raises the possibility that the upper ranks of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency staged the incident to break a political deadlock. Some in political circles have criticized that setup as a distortion aimed at a specific individual.

Hive Media Corp drew a line under the controversy in a statement on the 28th. It said the film is a work of fiction that draws on surviving records and adds imagination, with no intent to deny or overturn established facts. The Park Chung-hee Memorial Foundation, however, said the film damages historical fact and demanded that the studio apologize and halt screenings.

The fallout is showing up at the box office too. According to the Korean Film Council's integrated ticketing network, 'Assassin(s)' drew about 67,000 viewers on the 28th, trailing 'Tazza: The Song of Beelzebub' at about 69,000. Tazza pulled in more than 130,000 viewers on its opening day, ending a 49-day run at No. 1 for 'Odyssey,' and topped 1 million admissions over the holiday. Media outlets point to the history-distortion fight as a reason for the slide.