A Game for Homecoming Tickets🔥| Chuseok Commute Operation🏠 | PICK NMIXX

What happened

NMIXX members and their managers play a quiz-and-team game with a ticket home for Chuseok as the prize, in a video released ahead of the group's 6th EP "Strange Muse," due October 19, 2026 (KST).

Why Koreans care

The title pairs two words tied to the Korean holiday: 귀성길 (gwiseonggil, "the road home") and 한가위 (Hangawi, the native Korean name for Chuseok, the autumn harvest holiday). It also calls the segment a 퇴근 대작전 (toegeun daejakjeon, "grand operation to leave work") — playfully framing an early exit from work as if it were a military mission. Together this sets up the video's actual premise: whoever wins the games gets priority to head home early for the holiday.

In the Korean comments

In the game, managers are given joke animal identities to sort members into teams — a 북극곰 (bukgeukgom, polar bear), a 여우 (yeou, fox), a 다람쥐 (dalamjwi, squirrel), a 고양이 (goyangi, cat), and a 강아지 (gangaji, puppy) — and that "polar bear" manager becomes a recurring bit in the comments. One commenter writes, in translation, "The captions under the 'polar bear' manager crack me up every time — exactly my type of humor." Another comment specifically calls out "the chemistry between the 'polar bear' manager and Lily," suggesting that pairing is a specific highlight for at least one viewer, not just the game format in general.

What the words mean

귀성길 (gwiseonggil) reads literally as "hometown-return road," but in everyday use around Chuseok or Lunar New Year it simply means "the trip home for the holiday" — a routine, unremarkable term, not a poetic one. 대작전 (daejakjeon) literally means "grand operation," as in a military campaign, but here it's used in an exaggerated, joking register to describe a lighthearted office game, not anything actually strategic or serious.