“Irony” went up on the Brave Entertainment channel in late October 2025, credited simply as an MV. DKB debuted in 2020, which places this release in the stretch of a Korean boy group’s career that has to be planned around one fixed obligation.

The eighteen months every Korean man owes

South Korea still has conscription. Nearly every able-bodied male citizen serves roughly eighteen months in the army, a little longer in the navy or air force, and is expected to enlist by his late twenties. A 2020 revision to the law lets popular musicians recommended by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism defer until thirty. For a boy group this shapes the whole schedule: agencies stagger enlistments so the group is never entirely off the map, bank material before a departure, and treat a comeback as a window rather than a whim. Korean fans read birth years as a countdown, which is why they are published at all.

About this release

The video was published on 23 October 2025 by Brave Entertainment, DKB’s agency, which also holds the copyright line. The official description is unusually spare: a link to the official site and the hashtags #다크비 #DKB #Emotion #Irony. No producer, featured artist or parent album is named there, and no separate credits block is attached.

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