EVAN (에반) 'Death of Me' Official MV

Why Koreans care

BELIFT LAB is the HYBE-affiliated label best known as ENHYPEN's agency, so EVAN's solo debut coming from that same roof carries built-in industry attention and comparison for Korean viewers. Music-show wins like this one on 더쇼 (Deo Syo, "The Show") are calculated from a mix of album sales, streaming, and viewer voting, making them a closely watched benchmark for how a rookie act is performing in its debut week — which is why commenters treat the win as a milestone rather than routine promotion.

In the Korean comments

Most comments are straightforward celebration of the chart win: one top comment reads, "Evan got No. 1 on The Show today. Congratulations so, so, so much" (majority). A fandom-style comment switches to addressing him by the name 희승 (Heeseung) rather than his stage name and frames the win as personal validation: "Heeseung, congrats on your second No. 1... seeing you prove for yourself that your path was the right one makes me so proud, and it gives me a positive push in my own life too" (fandom). A dissenting comment turns the celebration into a complaint about the label: "빌랩 (Billaeb, fan shorthand for BELIFT LAB), it's your turn now — do something, whether that's fixing the YouTube view-count tally or finally releasing more of the limited-edition album stock you created" (minority).

What the words mean

Seeing commenters call him 희승 (Heeseung) instead of EVAN could read as a mix-up to an outsider, but it's fans using his given name as a mark of closeness, a common practice even after an idol has a stage name. The minority comment's line about "normalizing" the YouTube view count is not a tech-support request — it echoes a recurring K-pop fan grievance that MV view counts get undercounted or throttled during comeback week, paired with a jab that the label intentionally limited physical album stock to manufacture scarcity.