Everything To Know About DKB From A Long Term Fan, “Peak Time”, New Dance Practice Room And More

Here’s everything to know about DKB. From pre-debut, hidden talents, fandom favorites, choreography and dance being a focus, DKB being known MONSTA X fans, revealing a new dance practice room and more. A guide written by a fan who entered the fandom on November 12th, 2019. 

The 9 member boy group from Brave Entertainment would first enter the scene with a promotional short clip, “Promotion Film #01 “Move The Crowd”” that showcased the members having fun in a hip-hop filled environment before releasing the official SNS (Social Networking Service) accounts for DKB via Twitter, FaceBook, Instagram, and Weibo. 

They would begin to reveal the members with individual films, starting with “#01 E-CHAN“, before eventually ending with #09 showcasing the maknae of the group with the video “#09 HARRY-JUNE“. 

It wouldn’t be long until fans would slowly get more content from the pre-debut group, including a promotional dance black and white film #02 “Keep Your Head Up” on November 28th, 2019. 

With one month of waiting, the members would not only tease the album with a recording footage video on December 10th, 2019, but they would also provide one of the first glimpses of the members in a natural environment, doing a hobby they enjoy.

In frequent V-Lives or on YouTube, the idol group has covered MONSTA X‘s ‘Rush Hour’ and ‘GAMBLER’. DKB became known as successful MONBEBE after receiving a self-produced song by MONSTA X’s JooHoney in 2023, titled ‘Turning Point‘. 

Throughout the process of the members’ training and preparing for their first album and debut, the group would take fans through it all. Even two of the members, Teo and D1, revealed their practice for acrobatic training and a dance practice room that fans would come to know. 

January 7th, 2020 would be the start of the members revealing their music taste to fans. JunSeo and Harry June would create choreography for DPR Live‘s ‘Text Me’. D1 would upload a cover of William Singe‘s ‘Don’t’ on January 10th 2020. Then HeeChan would make self choreography for 8er$ ‘SKANK’ on January 14th, 2020. All this content was released before the official fanchant for their debut album and title track ‘Sorry MAMA’ would officially be released. DKB’s Lune would gain attention for his visuals within the thumbnail. 

Album Releases, Comebacks, And Last Release Before “Peak Time”. 

Throughout their career the group’s somewhat dark practice room and wood floors would become a well known sight for fans. The group would release the following list below before becoming known for their charisma on “Peak Time”. Some fans noticed some songs’ removal on various streaming platforms, being switched to Korean titles, and some disorganization of songs being on wrong albums after the titles were switched. 

1. “LOVE” (2020)

2. “GROWTH” (2020)

3. “Still” (Japanese Version) (2021)

4. “Work Hard” (Japanese Version) (2021) 

5. “The dice is cast” (2021)

6. “Rollercoaster” (2021)

7. “REBEL” (2022)

8. “Autumn” (2022) (The last album before Peak Time Promotions)

On Spotify, DKB has seen a steady increase in listeners, with support of a healthy 50K-100K listens per album, including an improved viewership on the group’s personal YouTube channel since participating on “Peak Time”. Not only would DKB get to interact with JooHoney for the song ‘Turning Point’, but they would also get to meet Moon JongUp of B.A.P.

“Peak Time” (피크타임) would gain attention for the fun environment of the show, groups supporting each other, and fun exchanges between the groups. This includes VANNER’s Gon and Moon JongUp’s tug-of-war, along with mini, fun challenges throughout the show. 

The program was created with the aim of providing new opportunities to boy groups that have been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, experienced long hiatuses, faced multiple lineup changes, disbanded, or recently debuted and needed help to showcase their talents to the rest of the world.

“Peak Time” first aired on February 15th, 2023 at 10:30pm Korean Standard Time. Alongside the MC Lee SeungGi, the judges included KyuHyun of SUPER JUNIOR, MiNo of WINNER, Jay Park, Tiffany Young of Girls’ Generation, Lee GiKwang of Highlight, Kim SungKyu of INFINITE, Shim JaeWon (Performance Director), and Ryan Jhun (Producer). 

DKB was revealed to the public through the name, “08:00” with the silhouette teaser, ‘Getting Closer’, originally by SEVENTEEN. 

Since their appearance on “Peak Time”, you might have noticed the once familiar dance practice room has changed a handful of times, possibly from the hard work and the new positive attention the group has received throughout the show. 

The survival show consisted of many groups, some you may or may not know. This includes 24K (New member lineup), AIMERS, ATBO, BAE173, BDC, BLITZERS, BLK, BTL, BXB, DayDream, DIGNITY, GHOST9, IN2IT (SKYE), JWiiver, KINGDOM, MASC, M.O.N.T, NTX, ROMEO, The Boss/DGNA, WAO, VANNER, Team 24:00 (Moon JongUp from B.A.P, Gon (Formerly of ARGON), HeeDo (B.I.G), Kim ByungJoo (Soloist, Formerly of XENO-T/TOPP DOGG), Kim HyunJae (Soloist, Formerly of BLACK6IX). 

After “Peak Time”, you may see fans (BB) referring back to old videos and being surprised to see them with English subtitles, due to a large amount of content not having this previously. Some have talked between themselves that the popularity of DKB finally passing 100K subscribers after such a long period being the cause. 

Is there a K-Pop group or soloist you have noticed increased improvement in recently? Consider sharing in the comments! 

Did you know? Some of DKB’s most viral video’s upon their own personal channel are actually covers? Consider checking them out below! 

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