AHOF Sends Chuseok Greeting to FOHA

AHOF marked Chuseok 2026 with a short but carefully timed official greeting, using its YouTube channel to speak directly to FOHA after a year defined by the group's RUN TO YOU activities. The 81-second video, uploaded on September 25, places the holiday message inside the same fan-facing ecosystem that has shaped AHOF's current era: official YouTube, Weverse-linked communication, and a fandom relationship built around the group's rapid rise since Universe League.

According to AHOF's official YouTube channel, the clip carries the title "AHOF(아홉)이 전하는 2026년 추석 인사" and is connected in its description to the group's RUN TO YOU era through the hashtags #AHOF, #아홉 and #RUN_TO_YOU. The video is not a music release or a performance stage, but it functions as a seasonal check-in at a moment when the group is still framing its third mini album as part of a broader story with fans.

In the captions, AHOF greets FOHA for Chuseok and asks whether fans are enjoying the holiday. The members refer to the many memories made with FOHA during promotions for their third mini album RUN TO YOU, saying that the chance to send a Chuseok greeting feels especially meaningful. The message then shifts into holiday wishes: rest, warm time with loved ones, good food, health and safety, and days filled with happy moments.

A Holiday Message Built Around FOHA

The most important part of the video is not the length, but the audience. AHOF frames the greeting almost entirely around FOHA, the group's fandom, and treats Chuseok as a moment to return attention to the people who followed the group through its recent activities. The members say the year brought many happy moments thanks to FOHA, then connect that gratitude to the holiday's familiar themes of rest, family, food and the full moon.

That structure matters because holiday greetings are a recurring feature of K-pop communication. They are short by design, but they keep official channels active between larger releases and allow artists to appear in a more relaxed, personal register. AHOF's video follows that format while staying tied to the group's current music cycle. The captions explicitly mention the third mini album, which keeps RUN TO YOU present even though the clip itself is a seasonal greeting rather than a promotional trailer.

The full moon reference also gives the greeting a distinctly Chuseok shape. In the video captions, AHOF says the group will look at the bright full moon and make wishes for FOHA. One member's wish is that fans' days will be filled only with happy things. Another part of the message asks fans to eat delicious food and spend good time with loved ones. None of this announces a new project, but it reinforces the group's preferred emotional language: gratitude, warmth, and forward motion.

For an international group with a multilingual fanbase, the presence of Korean and English captions is also useful. It makes a domestic holiday message easier to follow for fans outside Korea while still preserving the Korean cultural setting of Chuseok. AHOF's audience has always been positioned as global, and a captioned greeting lets the group include overseas FOHA without turning the holiday into a generic global-seasonal message.

Why RUN TO YOU Still Frames the Moment

The Chuseok greeting arrives after AHOF's third mini album RUN TO YOU, released July 8, 2026. F&F Entertainment described the project as a continuation of AHOF's youth narrative after WHO WE ARE and The Passage. Apple Music lists the EP as a five-song K-pop release with a total runtime of 15 minutes, credited to F&F Entertainment under license to Kakao Entertainment.

The track list gives the era a compact shape: "RUN TO YOU," "Sugar High," "JUST SAY YES," "그냥 너라서 그래," and "Our Story." F&F Entertainment's official release notice described the title track as a song carrying direct energy toward one person, built with a refreshing melody and dynamic performance. In the same notice, the agency said the album expanded the group's youth story into a more confident chapter.

Those details help explain why AHOF's Chuseok message leans so heavily on memories made during RUN TO YOU. The greeting is not simply saying hello for a holiday; it is pausing after an album cycle to acknowledge the shared work of promotion, streaming, showcases, and fandom attention. F&F also said AHOF held a fan showcase for FOHA around the album and streamed it through YouTube and Weverse, two platforms that mirror the way this holiday message is now being distributed.

That platform continuity is part of the story. YouTube is where the Chuseok clip lives, and it was also one of the routes used to bring the RUN TO YOU showcase to fans who could not attend in person. Weverse appears in the official source description as one of AHOF's fan-facing channels. Together, those channels show how AHOF's team is using a mixture of video, community platforms and social media to keep the group's narrative connected beyond comeback dates alone.

From Universe League to a Fast-Growing Rookie Story

AHOF's background gives the greeting added context. The group was formed through SBS TV's 2024-25 reality competition show Universe League and became the first K-pop boy band launched by F&F Entertainment. Yonhap reported at the time of AHOF's debut that the final lineup includes Steven, Seo Jeongwoo, Cha Woongki, Zhang Shuaibo, Park Han, JL, Park Juwon, Chih En and Daisuke, with members from South Korea, Australia, Taiwan, the Philippines, Japan and China.

The name AHOF stands for "All-time Hall of Famer" and also resembles the Korean word for nine. Yonhap explained that the name carries ideas of imperfection and potential for growth, which fits the way F&F has framed the group's early discography. The group's first works have been described through youth, uncertainty, growth and conviction, and RUN TO YOU continues that line rather than presenting AHOF as a finished product.

F&F Entertainment's official artist page lists AHOF as the final debut team of the 2025 global boy group project Universe League. It also lists several early achievements, including 2025 K-WORLD DREAM AWARDS K World Dream Super Rookie, 2025 The Fact Music Awards Hottest, 2025 Korea Grand Music Awards IS Rookie and Best Dance Performance, 2025 Asia Artist Awards Best New Artist, and 2026 Seoul Music Awards Rookie of the Year.

Those awards are not mentioned in the Chuseok video itself, and the greeting does not need to list them. Their relevance is in the pace of the group's first chapters. AHOF is still close enough to its survival-show origin that direct fan communication remains central to its identity, but it has already accumulated enough milestones for each official message to land as part of a larger rookie-to-next-stage story.

What the Greeting Signals Next

The video's closing note is deliberately open. AHOF asks fans to look forward to the group's varied future activities and says the members will spend Chuseok thinking of FOHA before returning in better form. That wording stops short of naming a schedule, release or event, so it should not be read as a specific announcement. Still, it does point to continuity: the group is not closing the RUN TO YOU chapter so much as carrying its emotional connection into the next public appearance.

For fans, that continuity is often the point of an official holiday greeting. Comebacks create peaks of attention, but smaller clips keep the fan relationship steady between those peaks. AHOF's Chuseok message gives FOHA a seasonal moment to share, while the references to RUN TO YOU keep the group's most recent music in view. It is simple, but it is also strategically aligned with how rookie groups build memory, routine and attachment.

The result is a modest but useful official update from AHOF: a holiday greeting anchored in Chuseok, a thank-you note to FOHA, and a reminder that the group's third mini album era remains part of its current identity. With the YouTube embed now available for fans to revisit, AHOF's 2026 Chuseok greeting becomes another small chapter in the group's ongoing effort to turn performance activity into a sustained fan conversation.