“That-Circular-Buiding-from-K-pop-MVs” Profile and Facts 2023
That Circular Building is one of the most frequent locations used for filming Korean pop music videos, movies and dramas.
Stage Name: That Circular Building
Real Name: Abandoned house of Gimcheon campus, Korea University College of Medicine
Position: K-pop music video filming place
Construction Date: 1996-1999
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn (probably)
Chinese Zodiac Sign: Rat/Rabbit
Height: nearly 18 meters
Weight: more than 1,000 tons
Construction Place: North-east of Ogyul sub-district, Eomo-myeon town, Gimcheon city district, North Gyeongsang province, South Korea (경상북도 김천시 어모면 옥율리)
Material Type: cement, concrete and steel fittings
MBTI Type: ISFJ (?)
Representative Color: grey
Representative Emoji: 🏫⭕️
Nationality: South Korean
That-Circular-Building Facts:
– It is unfinished due to lack to state financing.
– There are also the main educational building and another circle building, which is also used for filming.
– This building has five floors, the first one is under the earth, and a round hall, called atrium, what is known for the MVs filmed there.
– There are halls in this building and rooms on both sides of them, which also have been used for filming.
– The top two floors don’t have any walls erected, so there aren’t any rooms there.
– On the top of atrium there is a circular barred window that creates an astonishing view from below.
– The mood of almost all MVs filmed in this building was surely non-joyful, rather sad or depressing.
– EVERGLOW had their teaser photoshoots here to comeback with “Adios”, they did not have their MV filmed here.
– Neither a group nor a soloist used it for filming an MV twice.
– There is a doppelganger of this building, from now on referred as Another Circular Building, located on Columbus Studio set, South Korea.
– Here is the nearest location coordinates on the Internet maps: 36.174427, 128.109556
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That Circular Building Music-Videography:
(by chronological order)
Switch – Fiestaloca
The first ever usage of That Circular Building in K-pop. The MV has surprisingly a sexy concept. But due to that and low quality filming the MV was not very popular. The building appears in the beginning part, during the first rap and dance break parts.
BeatBurger – VAGABOND
The first soloist to film an MV here, a rapper from SM Entertainment had taken shots in various locations inside this building. By the plot of this MV, the building is cubic meteorite spaceship and there are BeatBurger, who is an alien, and his clones. The spaceship crashes on the Earth, straightly on the giant stalagmites, which pearce the atrium. BeatBurger and clones begin jamming, after that the spaceship flies and explodes in the air. BeatBurger doesn’t die, he just levitates above the debris.
VIXX – THE CLOSER
The first major K-pop group to have an MV here. VIXX used a lot of stop motion filming in several places in the building and even brought a car inside the atrium. Jellyfish Entertainment would come back here soon.
Kim Lip – Eclipse
The sixth member of LOONA had many shots here alongside the shots filmed in the studio. There was a red podium at the center of the atrium, the designated color for Kim Lip. The references from this MV were in LOONA’s “Paint The Town (PTT)” MV.
Stray Kids – Hellevator
The first group from The Big 3 companies to film an MV here, and the building became famous from that moment on. The atrium was furnitured and adorned for filming the “happy” life of characters and was empty during choreography parts. The boys were also filmed inside the rooms, where they sang and rapped their parts. Hyunjin was brave enough to sit on the barred window on the roof of the building. It’s unknown whether the elevator is part of That Circular Building.
KCM – Dawn
That Circular Building was chosen for another soloist’s lyrical MV. The main character is grieving, and the camera shows the melancholic views inside of grey winter abandoned building for the whole MV duration. At the end it is snowing inside the atrium.
Minseo – Zero
The beautiful soloist sings a refreshing song about destinies in the fantasy world inside empty That Circular Building. The building first appears from the upper side and occasionally the camera shows the singer somewhere inside the building. During the bridge part the atrium is being filled in colored smoke bombs accordingly to Minseo’s dress.
The Rose – She’s in the rain
The band performs a compostion about a girl staying under the rain in a hall in this building. The main character, a photographer young man, takes random pictures inside That Circular Building and suddenly sees a girl and fall in love with her. These two walk around and at the end they meet the top floor under the rain.
Soya – Artist
The first plan of the another soloist’s MV show a lighted exposition with orange cloth on it. Soya begins singing in a hall filled with red lights. Then she is seen performing the song with backdancers on the atrium with orange and white clothes. After she is in the basement with one blueish light and puts a glass orb on a puddle. Soya with backdancers managed to perform a choreography on the roof of That Circular Building, despite the roof being a little askew.
Jerastar – Entropy
The masked ballerina wanders around the building and dances on various places inside of the building.
Mckdaddy – Issue
The rapper reads his lines with slow beats accompanying. He is sitting with a woman, looks like they are having a dish as if they are dating. But the atmosphere between them is tough. And for meaning their empty relationship the empty That Circular Building was used. Also the rapper reads his lines on stairs and on the upper floors.
Chancellor ft. TAEYEON – Angel
The very first seconds of the MV show That Circular Building in the white atrium. There are snowy tree and grass, a white horse and a masked female dancer on it on the atrium. The dancer hops off the horse begins a slow contemporary dance with ballet elements, so one could wonder is she the same dancer from Jerastar’s MV above.
https://youtu.be/BodVjFLsi8o
ONF – Why
It may seem that the MV was filmed in whole another abandoned building, but view from the third floor in 2:38 clearly shows that this is That Circular Building. The boys were only in halls and rooms, not the atrium.
Gracie ft. Junny – Conquest
The MV’s plot seems like about a woman, who found money bag with the help of her boyfriend. The very first seconds of the MV show That Circle Building from above. The soloist sings sitting on a palanquin until she is shown in the one of the rooms on bottom floors of That Circular Building (0:55). Then Gracie stands vibing on the atrium from 1:10. The way to the top floor is shown on 1:18. On 2:06 there is a landscape of That Circular Building with all its beauty. It’s unrecognizable whether dark scene with flowers was filmed on the atrium.
VICTON – Mayday
The MV begins with Seungsik falling from red skies to the center of the atrium. Then there come asteroid-comet CGI and boys dancing in the smoked black-gray atrium. The basement, where Soya put a glass bead, was also filmed in the scenes with Seungwoo rapped and boys danced with flashlights. There are hall scenes with a mysterious lady and running men in black (including the dance area with red neon lights). A scene with a telephone box was probably filmed outside of That Circular Building.
Oneus – To Be Or Not To Be
The first frame with That Circular Building appears in 0:34, where one of the boys was strangled to the sustaining wall. In 1:04 there is a scene, where boys dance on the fourth floor of the building, in 1:20 they are seen on the atrium. In 2:54 the boys are wandering around the building. All other scenes, sometimes bloody and violent, were filmed in other same spectacular and wonderful places, which there should be a post about.
Pixy – Wings
In 0:12 the hall of the building without any member of PIXY is seen, in 0:16 the roof of the building is. After Dajeong close-up scene, Dia stands on the white hall with red part of the hall on the background and flashing lights, soon Dajeong changes her. Ella sits on stairs of the building, sings and moves upwards, Sua sits on the ground in embrion pose besides a tree grown up in the center of the atrium, she is strangled by her throat with a stalk of a plant to the pole. Then Dia goes down the building and finds a small box with a wing in it, soon she runs from someone or is looking for something. In 1:28 the girls are dancing on the empty atrium with purple dresses.
AB6IX – Close
The first glimpse on That Circular Building appears in 0:12, it’s a hall, the same second the circle roof is shown. From 0:43 Woojin and Woong make things on several floors of the building. The whole group performs on the atrium (3:32)
Verivery – Trigger
Like for VIXX, Jellyfish Entertainment used full aesthetical potential of That Circular Building for its junior boy group. A sphere flying up and down the building, boys dancing on a black tile podium on the atrium with panoramic view, a red retro car inside on the same atrium with masked boys, this MV is surely the most spectacular in this list. “Trigger” Performance Video is also taken there.
Treasure – Jikjin
SM, JYP… Now it’s YG’s turn to appear in the building. The YG music videos are known for their richness, so this MV isn’t an exclusion. Treasure brought a extra large screen to the atrium just to show their group name in the beginning of the MV. The group is seen performing on the atrium (0:24). You may notice that only few frames with That Circular Building were included into the MV.
ATEEZ – Guerrilla
The KQ Entertainment boy group’s title tracks are overwhelmed with youth energy and rebellious spirit. This time they rebelled that much to turn That Circular Building into a real guerilla base with all equipment, banners and fighting atmosphere. The base first appears in 0:37. In 0:56 a black van on the atrium is shown, with Yeosang in it. San attacks a cameraman on the atrium in 2:46. Other members go on to attack him in 2:56. The sun finally has shown itself in 3:17, while boys stand beside the van. The view from below in 3:23 looks like it was filmed in the atrium, but it is heavily CGI-ed. From 3:30 the boys begin energetically dance in several places, including the atrium.
MVs filmed in Another Circular Building on Columbus Studio:
HYO – Deep
MCND – #MOOD
Limelight – Eye To Eye
That Circular Building Filmography (episode numbers, timestamps):
Illang: The Wolf Brigade (인랑) (Netflix, 2018) – That Circular Building shows on the background on 119th minute of the film, and fully appears on the next minute with the scene on the atrium.
Hotel Del Luna (호텔 델루나) (tvN, 2019) – episodes 3, 4, 11 – all the scenes with a magic tree in the drama are all filmed in the building, though it does not look like they are, but this kind of view could be achieved only on the atrium (like the light is placed on the second floor). The episode 3 has such scene on the sixty-sixth minute, it continues in the episode 4, the episode 11 has a scene on the fourteenth and eighteenth minutes.
P1H: The Beginning of a New World (피원에이치: 새로운 세계의 시작/피원에이치(P1H): 새로운 세계의 시작) (2020) – on 87th minute some of the main characters of the movie come to the building, and until the end actions would take place here. The poster for the movie used panoramic pictures of the building. 
Vincenzo (빈센조) (Netflix, 2021) – episode 10 – on 17th minute two men are seen hog-tied on the fourth floor of the building by some nicely clothed criminal, who threatens them.
L.U.C.A.: The Beginning / LUCA (루카: 더 비기닝) (tvN, 2021) – episode 1 – since the very first minute a girl runs on the first floor of the building, she is chased by bunch of men in suits.
You Are My Spring (너는 나의 봄) (tvN, Netflix, 2021) – episode 1 – it shows the circular barred window on the ceiling on the second minute of the episode. Then the next frame there is a car, where a shocking incident occurs on.
Undercover (언더커버) (JTBC, 2021) – episode 16 – nearly the fourteenth minute the building is shown in its full size, then the next minute the circular barred window on the ceiling gets in the picture followed by two men and a woman on the fourth floor.
Bad and Crazy (배드 앤 크레이지) (tvN, 2021-22) – episode 1 – an accused man gives an evidence about his accident. The eighteenth minute shows an atrium with things used for building houses. The next minutes two men meet each other on stairs.
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