The Holiday season is officially on, and to raise your mood and spirits even higher we have curated a cheerful list of Kpop music videos with Christmas concepts that will push away your seasonal sorrow and make way for smiles and happiness. While these songs are enough to uplift one’s morale with their feel-good carol tunes, their music videos go a long way to spread jolly and comfy vibes that will do their job to get rid of all the worries in the world that you may have been carrying on your shoulders, thereby burdening your heart.
Watching these videos is guaranteed to turn your frown upside down, because for the time you’re engaged with these visuals of the celebratory mood of the festivities laced with magic and hope, your favourite artists will make you feel at ease with these bright Kpop Christmas songs. After going though our choice of Christmas tunes from the K-pop scene, do recommend your personal favourite go-to titles for us to enjoy as well!
Kpop Music Videos With Christmas Concepts
NCT DREAM Candy MV
In some cases, delulu is in fact the only solulu, so as long as you don’t take a peek at this NCT DREAM Christmas song, your cheer quotient will take only higher flights. You’ve probably not encountered any artist breaking out into a break-up song in such a jolly mood, but when 7DREAM is involved, you can expect about any kind of shenanigans headed your way. Taking their very own SM Town sunbaenim’s (H.O.T.) song from the ’90s and giving it a contemporary spin, the NCT DREAM members pull up with a playfully vibrant video that instantly kills any traces of sadness in your mind and refuels it with a mega dose of serotonin.
Donning their colourful attires that lend them the looks of elves at work at a candy factory, the septet blasts forward with an alarming rate of merriment that ultimately culminates in front of a gigantic tree decked with Christmas decorations and other such paraphernalia while the boys finish their effervescent choreography with piles of presents by their side. Some other Christmas songs by the SM boy group are Candle Light and Joy.
TWICE Merry and Happy MV
With its comforting carol tunes, this TWICE Christmas song and its music video is filled with love that will instantly snatch away your blues of loneliness and remind you of all the best times spent with your friends and family over the past year. Even people claiming to be turned off by the cliches of the Holiday spirit will be compelled to flash a smile seeing the girls share a blessed and merry time with each other in this video. The sweet vocals of the TWICE members will easily win a spot in your Christmas playlist with this simple track.
Stray Kids Christmas EveL MV
As the most unusual Christmas song that manages to pull off the Holiday mood in a very Stray Kids-esque musical manner, this X-mas video situates the octet in a surreal situation as they take over the grave responsibility to deliver gifts to children all around the world in Santa’s place. Playing around with the idea how some netizens refer to their music as falling under the “noise” genre, the members toy with the notion of “sound monster attacks” having injured Santa.
Receiving delivery assignments, the octet travels through dimensions and space in their Scooby Doo van on Christmas eve and go on singing “Jingle Jingle Jingle All the Way” with a hip-hop twist unlike any other you’ve heard before being intermeshed with Holiday cheer.
Red Velvet X aespa Beautiful Christmas MV
Last year, the special agency-wide Holiday album featuring most SM Entertainment artists titled, 2022 Winter SMTOWN : SMCU PALACE, saw this glorious collaboration between the legendary 3rd Generation and new-age icons of the 4th Generation of K-pop, Red Velvet and aespa respectively, come together. The song sparks cheer with refreshing and joyful twists.
Reminding us that every ending makes for a beautiful beginning, both much-loved girl groups wish us all happiness and a Beautiful Christmas, i.e the best time of the year, that’s well spent beside your loved ones. Capturing the bubbly excitement of the festive spirit, this carol’s music video will make you wish for the first snow to arrive earlier than anticipated. The 9 artists make winter wonderland bright and the video’s visuals are likely to make you smile as you look back on the year that went by and all the memories you gained along the way.
GOT7 Confession Song MV
Well, if NCT DREAM can cut ties with you while masquerading a break-up reminder as a Christmas tune, then GOT7 know their way to your heart by serenading you in the most classic way possible, offering you warm happiness on a cold night. Taking over a school, the septet makes the most of the opportunity of conveying the masked boys’ love confessions to their crushes. Setting up base in the school gymnasium, they not only decorate the whole place, but also work their musical magic to make young love stories come to fruition. Another heartwarming GOT7 Christmas song is Miracle, which again sought to shower their fans with love and warmth on a cold night.
Apink Pink Christmas MV
This 2023 track is the latest addition to the category of Kpop Christmas songs as far as this list is concerned. The special Holiday single is a jazz ballad for which Apink members Eunji and Namjoo stepped up as lyricists. The festive music video catches the girls celebrating the heartwarming Holiday together in the most classic way possible by staying indoors. Dressed in red, the members look pretty as ever with lights and other Christmas decorations by their side.
EXO The First Snow MV
A 2013 EXO Christmas song, The First Snow, is doing numbers again as we tread closer to Christmas 2023, now that SM Entertainment artists are responsible for making the track trend with their never-ending dance challenges. Regardless of what year it may be, EXO will always be that iconic K-pop group, and though this song isn’t supported by an official music video, its concert clips are enough to make fans happy-sad.
Although a simple and lighthearted X-mas song, its wondrous to see how EXO’s vocals are enough to lift the track’s identity high. Like clockwork, a decade-old song by the beloved artists from their winter special album is climbing the charts again as the December magic has casted its spell.
Girls’ Generations Dear Santa MV
Decorating a huge Christmas tree and sharing snow globes as presents, the Girls’ Generations Christmas song will remind you of the goodness of the festive period as well as the greatness of the 2nd Generation of K-pop. Members Taeyeon, Tiffany and Seohyun come together to form the group’s subunit and work on this comfort-oozing warm track.
The lyrics of the upbeat ballad, with mixed hints of other genres like jazz and R&B, remind us of a woman’s wishes to Santa Claus as she hopes to be reunited with her beloved partner for the lovely time of the year. Knowing that the profits made by the eponymously titled album’s sales were also used as charity for the “SMile for U” campaign between UNICEF and SM, makes the track an even more hearty addition to this list.
TREASURE BFF MV (Christmas Version)
Adding a Christmasy twist to their web drama, The Mysterious Class‘s OST, TREASURE members make sure to lift your spirits high with their shenanigans-filled music video of BFF (Best Friend Forever). The energetic track makes use of the quintessential jingling of bells that mark the onset of the Holiday mood. The tune complements the heartwarming theme of friendship as depicted via the similarly conceptualised 2021 web series, available on YouTube, that welcomes a friendly resident ghost like Casper who then forms an unlikely, yet profound bond with his classmates.
NMIXX Funky Glitter Christmas MV
NMIXX bring back the sparks and funk with their 2022 party song whose music video keeps things warm and indoors instead of taking it outside to the Winter Wonderland. Overflowing with glee and cuteness, the adorable video will make any cold heart feel warm with this glimmering vision of the girls’ Funky Glitter Christmas.
The song doesn’t attempt to go over the top to please with you any unique qualities, rather it stays humbled with usual Christmas carol sound that brings in familiarity, a factor that’s particularly adored during this time of the year, especially with seasonal blues in the air. With all its silliness and optimistic merrymaking, the song offers you a sense of security with its sparkly ways of raising one’s spirits while keeping the light of comfort on.
BTS Dynamite Holiday Version
BTS serve Christmas spirit by sprinkling Holiday cheer on their first-ever full English track. It disco pop, funk and upbeat bubblegum pop elements all fade away to hand over the steering wheel to classic Christmas magic and chorus sounds. The song was billed as a separate digital single with a special Holiday remix video that situates the boys (minus Suga) in a room filled with Christmas lights, trees, gifts and whatnot as they film their respective self-focussed close-up videos in their usual goofy style, while another lens captures it all from a distance as well.
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All I Want For Christmas Is You – SBS Gayo Daejeon 2021 Version
Multi group interactions in K-pop land are always treated like they’re the holy grail, and in one of the grandest gatherings for year-end celebrations, the 2021 SBS Gayo Daejeon (Song Festival) gave way to an immensely special opening with artists across groups and label coming together on one stage to serenade the fans on Christmas.
Making for an unforgettable present, this rendition of All I Want for Christmas Is You (originally sung by Mariah Carey), a Christmas staple, was opened by Red Velvet’s Wendy, who was eventually joined in by her industry colleagues – TOMORROW X TOGETHER’s Soobin, Yeonjun and Taehyun, Nu’est’s JR, Ren and Aron, ITZY’s Chaeryeong and Lia, NCT 127’s Mark, Jaehyun and Doyoung, ASTRO’s Eunwoo and Moonbin, Stray Kids’ Bang Chan and Seungmin, OH MY GIRL’s Seunghee and Hyojung, aespa’s Winter and Ningning, ATEEZ’s Hongjoon and San, THE BOYZ’s New and Younghoon, ENHYPEN’s Sunoo and Jungwon, STAYC’s Sumin and Seen, Brave Girls’ Minyoung, and IVE’s Wonyoung and Yujin.
Which of these Christmas Kpop music videos will you be playing to summon your Holiday mood? Let us know your personal favourites in the comments section below.
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