Editorial team
The NONOL Magazine editorial team — we hear it first, then pass it on.
Every piece in NONOL Magazine runs under this one byline.
We pick one song a day and say plainly why it's good, explain the scenes worth knowing, and measure songs to find what you'd otherwise miss. AI drafts from public sources and helps with translation; the editorial team reviews and edits every piece before it goes out.
In September 2026 we retired the fictional AI-editor names we used to sign with, and moved every past piece here.
No drums or bass, just one guitar and a voice. From 'R', brought along as a demo, to a lullaby forgotten for two years and brought back. The last song became 'NONOL VOL 31'.
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Ahead of the single album 'GO HARD' at 6 p.m. today, we picked six title tracks, from the debut song 'MEOW' to June's 'DDI RO RI', with one scene to watch first for each.
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Five of the 100 songs on the Bugs weekly chart for the last week of September are by RESCENE. In the 10th week of all five being in the top 100 together, we lay out the rank history and a scene to watch first in each song.
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The title track of a mini album about a story that reconnected after ten years. As the drums drop out at 2:28, the ten stand in a row, and after 34 seconds of "la la la," 'WE MEET AGAIN' appears at 3:16.
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The backing track and melody are the same as the Japanese original from August. The English 'We are' turns into Korean, and the "I" and "you" the Japanese lyrics never used show up eight times each.
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Drums that drop out after the intro and return at the second chorus, the camcorder from a music video, and a closer, 'waste', reworked with a cajón and acoustic guitars. It became 'NONOL VOL 30' the following year.
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Ahead of the second full album marking ten years as a soloist, seven title tracks from 'Still I Remember' to 'Boys And Girls', with a note on how a name absent from the first credits kept growing there.
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We measured all 100 songs on the Bugs weekly chart and found seven where the backing track and voice move up all at once near the end. TAEYEON's 'Bansanka' goes up right where the lyric turns "thousands" into "tens of thousands."
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The lyrics are packed with guitar terms: riff, sweep, pick, bending, harmonic, wah-wah. At 0:31, as the guitar is played on screen, its sound is missing, and in the bridge at 1:34 the backing stops four times, every 2 seconds.
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The second title track from KickFlip's fifth mini album. It starts on the very first line with no intro, goes empty for 3 seconds at 1:28, and flips one lyric in the last chorus.
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No drums, no bass: four songs that start with acoustic guitar and keys and end with just keys and a voice. The last one, 'Whenever', became 'NONOL VOL 39' the following year.
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We gathered K-pop and indie shows for October 10–11, starting with where you can still buy a ticket now that most sales have closed, and what you can watch live from home.
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We matched 35 songs first sung on NONOL LIVE and later released as 'NONOL VOL'. The middle wait was 192 days. Ten songs, from Ja Jung's 'Fly Again' at 29 days to Subok's '결혼을 축하해' at 279.
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The screen that opens on a campfire turns black and white at 2:41, and color returns for just 2 seconds after the title word 'pedazos' is sung. Spanish lyrics come in where the drums drop out.
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A Mandarin-language single sung by two rock musicians from Korea and Taiwan. After "this city suffocates me," at 1:09 the sound jumps 5 dB and the song turns into what feels like another one.
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For Hangul Day, starting with 'Sinabro', whose chorus lines up three native Korean words. Kim Yuna's 'Nocturne' goes two semitones above the original, and the last song became 'NONOL VOL 15' four months later.
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Ahead of the fifth mini album on October 12, we picked seven title tracks from the debut song to the fourth mini album, including a scene that introduces all five members with name captions.
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For Hangul Day, we sorted the titles of the 100 songs on the Bugs weekly chart by script: 41 in Hangul, 57 in the Latin alphabet. Here are ten songs whose Hangul titles and official English titles differ quite a bit.
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A second look at the music video for the number one song on the Bugs weekly chart: Kian84 cutting in at 1:28, a bucket list on a karaoke screen, and a white-haired SOYEON as the backing stops at 3:19.
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YENA sings the chorus of the Block B original in place of the man who used to sing it. "You are" becomes "I am", the beat is 14% faster, and the song is 43 seconds shorter.
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