Group &TEAM has raised anticipation for their second Korean mini album, 'Mark on Me', set to be released on September 8, with a trailer that feels like a poem.

&TEAM (Eijuisu, Fuma, K, Nicholas, Yuma, Jo, Harua, Taki, Maki) released the trailer titled 'Trailer : The First Mark' for 'Mark on Me' on the official HYBE Labels YouTube channel at 6 p.m. on the 5th. The video sensuously captures the process of boys who, trapped in ice and bound by old wounds, find freedom after meeting "you" who accepts those very scars as they are.

The video opens with Eijuisu's Korean narration, saying, "Everyone thought it was a wound and hid it." This is followed by a confession, "You read my scar for the first time," accompanied by the touch of "you" slowly tracing a scar. The calm tones of the nine members, alternating between four languages including Korean and Japanese, enhance immersion.

The turning point of the story is the moment the ice begins to melt. As the members breathe life into one another and embrace, the rigid ice gradually collapses. Their figures swimming through a space finally filled with water convey a sense of liberation from the shackles of their wounds.

At the end of the video, a scene where a beautiful "mark" appears in the place where the scar used to be encapsulates the message of the new album. It is a metaphor that the scar did not simply disappear, but gained a new meaning upon meeting "you" who read it as a special pattern. The narrative of the album title, 'Mark on Me', comes to completion here as two entities leave unforgettable traces on each other.

&TEAM's expressive power also stands out. The nine members' restrained acting—delicately capturing the boys' changes, from anxiously shaking eyes and expressions easing their guard at another's touch to fluent gestures after breaking free from the ice—adds credibility to the story.

While the prologue video 'The Wolf Who Loved Red' released on the 2nd unfolded the story of a wolf tamed by love like a warm fairytale, this trailer focuses on the reason why the wolf willingly opened its heart to a single person. These two videos with contrasting atmospheres are organically connected, foreshadowing &TEAM's expanded "wolf DNA" narrative.

(Photo: YX Labels)



Reported by Kang Kyung-yoon | SBS E&S