SEOUL, Sept. 30 -- Former Big Bang member T.O.P will return as a solo artist in the fourth quarter of 2025 with a full-length studio album, marking his first solo release since Doom Dadain 2013.

Industry sources told The Korea Herald that the 37-year-old rapper has completed recording and plans to shoot multiple music videos, with production led by Chae Kyoung-sun, the Emmy-winning art director behind Netflix's Squid Game.

"T.O.P's studio album is scheduled for release sometime in or after October. He has completed recording and plans to shoot several music videos. An art director of Squid Game will oversee the production," one source said on condition of anonymity.

Chae, who won Art Directors Guild Awards in 2022 and 2025 and a Primet...