Watch: MONSTA X Date EP 'The Phase' for September 4
Twenty seconds of video, one line of description — and an hour that is not the usual one: 1 p.m. KST, not six in the evening.
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Twenty seconds of video, and the news is underneath it. MONSTA X posted 'EP [The Phase] COMING SOON' at ten at night Seoul time on August 6, and the description opens on the line that matters: 2026.09.04 1PM (KST) Release. That date is on our schedule now, with a countdown running.
We logged the post twenty-one minutes after it appeared, at 2,884 views, with 824 likes and 186 comments. Our record holds 209 MONSTA X posts and this is the first to carry the name 'The Phase' — the ones immediately before it are ordinary channel days, a [MON-ing] vlog on August 5 and a run of short clips tagging other artists across the 4th and 5th.
One detail in that release line is worth pausing on. Korean releases land at six in the evening as a rule; this one is dated for one in the afternoon, five hours earlier. The post does not explain the choice, so neither do we — we are recording the hour exactly as written.
Past the date the description says very little: the hashtags #MONSTAX, #몬스타엑스 and #ThePhase, then links to the group's official community, X, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and Weibo. No track list, no format, no pre-order line.
Context for International Fans
Six in the evening Korea time is the industry's default release hour, which is why almost every countdown you see for a Korean release points at 6 p.m. KST. One in the afternoon is a real departure from that, and it changes the conversion: September 4 at 1 p.m. in Seoul is midnight ET the same day, and 4 a.m. UTC. Worth setting the alarm to the stated hour rather than to habit.
Why It Matters
Everything anyone knows about 'The Phase' right now comes from one line MONSTA X wrote themselves. Nothing added, nothing inferred — and because we log posts as they appear, MONBEBE can also see exactly when that name entered the record rather than when someone happened to notice it.
What to Watch Next
September 4 at 1 p.m. KST, on the schedule here with a countdown. The description carries no track list, format or pre-order line, so none is given here; anything further from the official channel lands on the group's record page, timestamped to the minute.
