The faces of songs worth seeing again: a journey through D.O. (Doh Kyung-soo)’s music videos

This is the official music video for That’s Okay, released by SMTOWN in 2019. You can also recall the connection with illustrator Moon Je-i, who worked on the artwork for the MVs of this song, I Do and Snowfall at Night. We chose it as the starting point for meeting, in pictures, the song’s message that it’s fine to let hard feelings go. If you’ve listened to the recording on repeat, this time look at how the flow of the visuals changes the experience. It’s a good first video for setting aside time that differs from listening to the song alone.

This is the Rose MV, released on July 26, 2021 along with his first mini album, Empathy. In the full video you meet an acoustic folk confession whose Korean lyrics D.O. helped write. The fresh excitement of the Korean lyrics blends with the guitar rhythm. It’s a good point to see as the shift from the comfort of the earlier single to the love story of a solo album. If you watch the music video first and then broaden your listening to the Empathy tracks, the interest that began with one song can carry over to the album.

The I Do MV was released on September 8, 2023. Since it was a pre-release video ahead of the mini album Expectation, which came out on the 18th of the same month, keep it separate from the album release date in your mind. Meet, together with the visuals, a song that hopes for a future together on a night of falling meteors. The fact that it’s Moon Je-i’s artwork, continuing from That’s Okay, is also a clue for watching the two videos as a pair. Moving on to Somebody next, the two songs introducing one album each leave a different impression.

Somebody is the title-track MV from his second mini album, Expectation, from 2023. Over an acoustic guitar rhythm, you take in a song that hopes for someone who will accept him as he is. The roughly 4-minute-31-second video is longer than the roughly 2-minute-38-second recording, so you can also linger on the visuals beyond the song. Seen side by side with I Do, you meet the changing expressions of love even within the same album, Expectation. Watch the visuals first, then listen to the music alone again and pick out the parts that stay with you.

The Popcorn MV was released on April 30, 2024, and the third mini album Blossom was released on May 7. It was the song you could meet first while waiting for the album. Since it captures the giddy feeling of love, like popcorn bursting, it’s a good pick for days when you want to start light. In this list we set it as a pair with Mars, which follows, to meet the two songs that open the same album. If you liked the 2026 Dingo vertical live, come back to the official MV that was made first.

This is the title-track MV from Blossom, released on May 7, 2024. Mars is a mid-tempo pop song asking whether two people who feel as if they live on different planets can still grow closer. Rather than taking the title as merely a description of outer space, listen to it as a song that uses distance as a metaphor for a relationship. Watched after Popcorn, released earlier, you can meet the same album’s excitement through two different songs. It’s also worth comparing which format moves you more, the broadcast live or the full MV.

SING ALONG! is the title-track music video from his first studio album, BLISS, from 2025. You meet the joy of singing, carried on a tropical rhythm, together with the visuals. ZICO and D.O. took part in the lyrics, and ZICO and No Identity in composition and arrangement. It’s the point where he moves past the guitar-centered songs of the early mini albums to a title track of a different color. If you liked this video, listen from the first track of the studio album and look for what other scenes of happiness lie behind a single title track.

This is the full official MV for the 2025 single DUMB. The recording featuring PENOMECO runs about 2 minutes 9 seconds, but this video is about 4 minutes 16 seconds, so the running times of the music and the video differ greatly. There’s also a Home Video version that captures the same song differently, so you can compare after watching the main one. It’s the order of finishing with the visuals of a collaboration single after looking back as far as the studio album. PENOMECO later took part in the lyrics of Guitarist too, so you can also listen to it as a flow where the two artists’ work continues.