The game timer runs on the video's clock: seven things you missed in EMP's 'RUN' music video

EMP is a unit of ZEROBASEONE's SEOK MATTHEW and PARK GUNWOOK. The music video for 'RUN (with Dynamicduo)', released on November 4, opens on a first-person game screen from a survival-game field, and hides lyrics and names in every corner of the frame. Every timecode below follows the official music video on the ZEROBASEONE channel.

0:00 · A game timer that runs on the video's clock

The first screen is a game screen called 'SIGNAL RUN'. The team slot reads 'EMP (ZEROBASEONE)', 'SEOK MATTHEW' and 'PARK GUN WOOK', and the weapon slot reads 'SIGNAL LAUNCHER'. The timer at the top right shows '00:00' at 0:00 and '00:04' at 0:04, exactly the same as the video's clock. The same game screen comes back at 0:57 and at 2:16, and the timer at 2:16 reads '02:16'.

0:00 · The first line, on a poster

The first line of the song is 'Better RUN, badder ONE'. On the left wall of the first screen, where that line plays, a poster with the same words, 'BETTER RUN BADDER ONE', is stuck up.

0:12 · The one time 'better ONE' appears

Lines ending in 'badder ONE' come up eight times in the song. Only once, at 0:12, is it 'Better RUN, better ONE'. At that exact moment the black-and-white screen turns to color, and '제베원 Be the ONE' follows ('제베원' is the Korean short name for ZEROBASEONE).

1:02 · 'Pass the gun'

Right after 'Pass the gun' at 1:02, a hand holding a gun wrapped in red netting pushes the muzzle toward the camera. As in the photo at the top, this red gun also appears as the first-person weapon on the game screen.

1:15 · The names in the lyrics

Just before '여기저기서 Scout 해 그래도 난 Matt과 2교대' (roughly, "scouting from here and there, but I still work shifts with Matt") comes in, at 1:15 the drums drop out for about half a second, the voice and bass cut out for a moment too, and then they all come back together with this line. Nine seconds later comes 'Today's topic EMP, 다듀 케미는 무한대' ("Today's topic EMP, the chemistry with 다듀 is infinite"; '다듀' is the Korean short name for Dynamicduo). SEOK MATTHEW's English name and the short form of Dynamicduo's name are both right there in the lyrics.

2:23 · The 'RUN' card in the middle of the song

The bass drops out from 2:14, and from 2:20 the voice fades as well. At the end of that stretch, at 2:23.5, a 'RUN' logo card appears for 0.8 seconds, and the bass comes back the moment the card disappears.

2:36 · The name cards at the end

As the song nears its end, an EMP logo appears at 2:36 and a 'Dynamicduo' logo at 2:37, and then the credits follow. From the 'WAKE ONE' logo at 2:43 there is no sound at all for 3 seconds, which makes the music video about 2 seconds longer than the 2-minute-44-second song. The song with Dynamicduo also comes up in the November 6 list of ten new songs. Apple Music