dearALICE Take K-Pop Training Home

dearALICE’s second EP, dancefloorKILLA, arrives on September 25 with a question bigger than a new track list: what does a group shaped by K-pop training become when it brings that experience back to British pop?

The release follows a run of singles that includes “Home With You” and “Animal.” The group’s official Weverse notice confirms the EP’s September 25 release, while the official store lists the project and its release-day video premiere.

A second EP, a broader identity

dearALICE first entered public view through BBC One’s Made in Korea: The K-Pop Experience, a project that sent British performers through an intensive period of training in Seoul with SM Entertainment. AEG Presents’ group profile describes the series as following the UK act through 100 days of training in South Korea. That origin is not a footnote; it is part of the group’s unusual proposition.

But an origin story can become a box if it is the only lens through which an act is understood. dancefloorKILLA gives dearALICE a chance to make the conversation about its own catalogue and performance identity, not only the process that brought the members together.

In a 2025 interview with The Korea Times, the group discussed the experience of moving from London to Seoul and the way K-pop training informed its development. That hybrid background is a useful starting point—but the music has to carry the story forward.

The next test is at home

The timing makes the EP particularly interesting. dearALICE’s October UK run is set for Manchester on October 25, London on October 26 and Birmingham on October 27, according to promoter AEG Presents.

That creates a meaningful shift in setting. Seoul was where the group’s training story took shape; the upcoming dates put the act in front of audiences in the country it calls home. The question is no longer simply whether a British group can pass through a K-pop development system. It is whether that experience can help build a distinct pop act on its own terms.

This is an editorial reading of the moment, not a claim that one EP or tour can settle the group’s long-term direction. The project’s value is that it brings the music, the training background and a home-market live run into the same frame.

Not a verdict—an opening

For listeners, dancefloorKILLA is a new entry point. For dearALICE, it is an opportunity to make the group’s identity more legible beyond the headline of how it was formed.

The October shows will add another piece of evidence: how these songs translate from recorded releases to a room full of people in the UK. That is a more useful measure than asking whether dearALICE is “K-pop” or “British pop” as if the categories cannot overlap.