Seventeen’s Joshua Hong Meets ‘Heated Rivalry’ Stars at Golden Globes

South Korea’s It Boy, the Seventeen vocalist Joshua Hong, gave his followers one thing to scream about on Sunday evening.

The primary male Okay-pop star to attend the Golden Globes first strutted the crimson carpet in a slick black Givenchy match, accessorizing with silver Chaumet jewellery. Then he went backstage and met with two rising stars from the steamy hockey romance, “Heated Rivalry,” and brought on a small meltdown on social media.

Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams had been seen in a video posted by MTV saying hey to Hong backstage, then posing for a photograph collectively.

“Fellow Koreans!” Williams was heard saying in MTV’s video. Williams is half-Korean.

Storrie and Williams had been on the Globes to current the award for finest feminine supporting actor in tv. The duo is recent off promotions for his or her HBO Max smash hit, which, because of the facility of TikTok, has turn out to be one of the vital in style releases of 2025 when it comes to viewership.

After footage of the backstage huddle was posted, X and Instagram had been inundated with feedback from each fandoms, with folks saying they’d “manifested” the assembly after Hong’s attendance on the awards ceremony was confirmed.

Hong mentioned on the crimson carpet on Sunday that he hadn’t seen the present, which is a few torrid love affair between two professional hockey gamers.

“Numerous followers have been recommending that to me, so, positively gonna test it out,” he mentioned.

This may not be the final time this 12 months that Hong’s followers see him stateside, as he is now signed with the California-based United Expertise Company in a bid to safe performing gigs. He is additionally nonetheless on tour along with his band members in Seventeen, who hit up Southeast Asia of their subsequent stops.