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An entirely new top 20
South Korea’s 20 most-trending YouTube videos were all new to the ranking on Oct. 18 compared with the previous snapshot from Oct. 11, reflecting rapid turnover driven largely by music releases and gaming content.
“NEON,” a 3-minute, 28-second music video from A2O - Topic, took the No. 1 position. Posted Oct. 13, it had more than 7 million views and 85,798 likes. A separate official video for “NEON,” uploaded by Stone Music, ranked No. 15 with about 3.6 million views.
Netflix Korea placed second with the official short-form trailer for “Take a Golden Job,” which recorded 745,249 views after its Oct. 16 release. Gaming creator Kim Jae-won ranked third with an eight-minute video that drew 838,999 views.
D.O.’s “Every Moment of You” came in fourth with 454,653 views. Rockstar Games’ short-form “Grand Theft Auto VI Launch Trailer” ranked fifth but had by far the largest audience in the top 20, with more than 39.6 million views and 1.6 million likes.
Gaming creators and Korean artists fill the chart
A 36-minute cooperative gaming video from creator Hyean ranked sixth with more than 1 million views. Epik High’s “Mise en scène” was seventh with about 1.9 million views, followed by gaming videos from Ralo at No. 8 and Tube Kim Min-kyo at No. 10. Kim Gyeol’s “Hide and Seek” ranked ninth.
The middle of the chart included Loco’s “TATA” at No. 11, a 52-minute gaming video from Clid at No. 12, Lee Min-jeong’s “Not Quite Us” at No. 13 and a Minecraft video from Maple Minecraft Channel at No. 14.
Long-form gaming remained prominent farther down the list. Dongsukan TV ranked No. 16 with a nearly 45-minute video, while Pangiyo’s MapleStory content placed 18th. At No. 20, Qyang posted a Korean-dubbed, 4K campaign video for “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 (2026)” that ran nearly five hours and recorded 205,973 views.
Music rounded out the lower rankings. The official video for Epik High and Davichi’s “Mise en scène” placed 17th with more than 1.8 million views, while singer Jung Seung-hwan’s cover of Kim Bum-soo’s “I Miss You” ranked 19th.
Gaming and music dominate
Among 30 trending videos collected on Oct. 18, 15 were categorized as gaming, 13 as music and two as entertainment. Six were short-form videos. The rankings were based on YouTube’s South Korea trending list as of Oct. 18, 2026, with changes measured against the Oct. 11 snapshot.
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