EXO’s Lay to MC for the First Time

In the revealed photo, Lay is seen dressed in a striped button-up shirt matched with a colorful floral tie, while holding a script in his hands. As it was his first try at taking part in a show as an MC, there are hints of nervousness and anxiety that can be seen on his face. The group was initially announced as set to debut in early 2011. The project name for the group was M1 (for EXO-K) and M2 (for EXO-M). SM Entertainment producer Lee Soo-man outlined plans for simultaneous debuts for the two groups. The debut was delayed, and it was set for early 2012. In December 2011, teasers began to surface concerning the members and a large number of video teasers were produced highlighting the talents of the individual members. Two showcases, one in South Korea for EXO-K and another in China for EXO-M, were held prior to the release of the mini album Mama on April 9, 2012. EXO-K had their debut performance on Inkigayo, and EXO-M first performed at the Yinyue Fengyun Bang Awards. The title track "Mama" was used as the promotional-song for the album. The mini album took the number one spot in South Korea, and ultimately sold 90,000 combined copies of the EXO-K and EXO-M versions. In addition, the album charted at number 2 in China, number 8 on the Billboard World Albums chart, and number 33 on the Oricon albums chart.

EXO is a boy group from SM Entertainment. EXO itself is a composite of two separate groups, EXO-K, and EXO-M, that sing in Korean and Mandarin Chinese respectively. The group simultaneously debuted in China and South Korea on April 8, 2012, with the mini-album Mama. Another photo of Lay cooking in a kitchen was also revealed, raising fans’ curiosity for what will happen on the broadcast. According to local media, Lay personally cooked up a complicated dish made out of crucian carp for the staff members during a segment that took place in the kitchen. EXO member Lay will be take a shot at being an MC for the very first time on a music show in China! On June 19, Chinese program “Music Billboard Charts” posted pictures of Lay’s appearance as a special temporary MC through their official Weibo, and described it as a great success.

Kim Joon Myeon

Suho is the leader of Exo-K. Born Kim Joon-myun on May 22, 1991 (age 23) in Seoul, South Korea. Suho was an active student and earned good grades during grade school. He was the class president at his primary school and the vice chairman at his high school. At sixteen, he became the first member of EXO to become a trainee at SM, and was discovered through the company's street casting system in 2006. In 2007, Suho was cast as an extra in the Super Junior film, Attack on the Pin-Up Boys, and in 2008, he made a brief appearance in TVXQ's music video, "HaHaHa Song" with fellow Exo bandmates Kai and Chanyeol. Suho was cast as the lead in the Christmas movie Saving Santa, dubbing the voice of the main character Bernard, along with A-Pink's Jung Eunji and Shin Dong-Yeob. On February 15, 2012, Suho was introduced as the tenth member of Exo. Pursuing a degree in acting, he currently attends Korea National University of Arts and is ranked in the top 50 of 400 students at the school. He enjoys listening to funk rock and has expressed his admiration for Super Junior's leader, Leeteuk, and TVXQ's leader, U-Know Yunho.

Exo is a South Korean-Chinese boy band produced by S.M. Entertainment that debuted in 2012. Exo comprises twelve members who are separated into two subgroups. Exo-K and Exo-M. The former releases music in South Korea, while the latter promotes music in mainland China. Exo's name was taken from exoplanet, a term referring to planets outside of the Solar System. In January 2011, producer Lee Soo-man of S.M. Entertainment announced his plans to debut a new boy band in March or April 2011. Temporarily named M1, the group appeared to have consisted of only seven members when a photo of them in a dance studio was leaked online. In May 2011, Lee spoke about the group in a Hallyu business seminar held in Stanford University. In the presentation, he explained his strategy of separating the group into two subgroups, M1 and M2, and have them promote the same music in South Korea and China, performing the songs in both Korean and Mandarin. Lee planned to launch the group in May 2011, but their debut was delayed due to member changes and other planning. News concerning the group did not surface until October 2011, when Lee briefly discussed about the group's concept plans again in an interview with The Chosun Ilbo. Once the members and plans were finalized, the group began to prepare for their official debut.

Exo's debut single, "Mama", was released in April 2012. The single was a moderate success; Exo-M's version topped mainland Chinese music charts after only one day of release, and Exo-K's "Mama" music video reached to number seven on YouTube's Global Chart. The group's two albums, the 2012 debut EP Mama and the 2013 comeback studio album XOXO, were major commercial successes, selling over 1.5 million units in total worldwide. With XOXO, Exo became the youngest boy band to win Album of the Year at the Mnet Asian Music Awards, and the fastest-selling K-pop artist in twelve years. The lead singles off XOXO, "Wolf" and "Growl," were hits, landing first place trophies on music shows from all three of Korea's major free-to-air broadcast stations. The latter also peaked at number three on Billboard's Korea K-Pop Hot 100 chart.

Huang Zitao

 Tao is from Qingdao, Shandong, China. He attended Humen Centre Primary School, one of the most prestigious primary schools in Qingdao, and Qingdao Middle School. Tao is a martial artist, and has been practicing Wushu since he was five years old. He competed in several martial arts championships in Qingdao, and won the "Top Rap Award" at Beijing 3rd Annual Collage Street Jam. [citation needed] In 2010, Tao appeared as an extra in the ninth episode of the mainland Chinese idol drama, That Love Comes. Tao auditioned for S.M. Entertainment's global casting system in Qingdao and became an S.M. Entertainment trainee in late 2010. He was one of the last Exo members to join S.M. Entertainment and had a training period of less than one year. On December 27, 2011, Tao was formally introduced to the public as the third member of  Exo. Along with Lu Han, Chen, and Exo-K's Kai, Tao made his first televised performance on SBS's Gayo Daejun event on December 29, 2011.

He officially joined SM Entertainment in 2010 after winning 1st place in an SM Entertainment Global Audition held in Qingdao, China. He was officially introduced as a member of EXO on December 27th 2011. During his time as a trainee, he was picked on by other trainees because he was Chinese and because he got to debut so quickly after joining SM Entertainment. Tao’s first TV appearance was on SBS’s Gayo Daejun on December 29th, 2011. He appeared alongside Kai, Luhan, and Chen. His favorite animal is a black cat. He’s very conservative (kept to himself and mysterious). In China, his roommate is Xiumin. In Korea, his roommate is his manager (his manager thought it’d be best because Tao still needs to work on his Korean), and on the road he rooms up with Kris. He won first place in many Wushu and rap competitions. His ideal type is someone who is pretty, has a great personality, and has a good body. He knows how to speak Mandarin, Cantonese, English, and Korean. Sometimes during interviews, his mood sulks because he isn’t able to speak Korean fluently like the other members.

According to fans, Huang Zitao accidentally “liked” a fanfiction (T/N: The chinese phrase used means they are paired together in the fic) about EXO-K’s member Oh Sehun and him, and got teased by fans, hence he changed his profile, to show his gloominess: “ Don’t want to explain anything anymore, don’t know anything. Can only say that weibo is a “pit”. Regarding Huang Zitao’s rant, fans on one side are consoling him: “Don’t mind us, everyone is just playing around”, but on the other side did not forget to tease him: “Taozi is too Tsundere.” What will Huang Zitao think after he knows about this, But this is also a way that fans are showing their love for Huang Zitao, hope he doesn’t mind.

Byun Baek-hyun

Byun Baek-hyun Born on May 6, 1992 (age 22) in Bucheon, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, he is former pupil of Jungwon High School. Baekhyun was a member of the school's band and attended several musical festivals, later winning an award at a local rock festival prior to joining S.M. Entertainment in 2011 through the S.M. Casting System. Baekhyun was studying for his college musical entrance exams when he joined the label. Baekhyun was one of the last members to join Exo, and was revealed as the group's ninth member on January 30, 2012. Byun has cited Rain as one of his main influences and hopes to emulate Rain's "well-rounded" success.

Volunteered at the RCY shelter to help disabled children so he played with them and tidied up the facilities there are 3 rooms In the dorm Baek Hyun shares the room with ChanYeol roommate ChanYeol Says That Baek Hyun yelps like a dog like 40 times before falling asleep wanted to become a singer since the fourth grade and tolled all his friends that he would be a celebrity when he'll grow up. was immediately asked to join SM right in front of the gates (one of the SM representative was near his school and asked him does he want to join SM) officially Joined SM in 2011 want's EXO to go down in Korean music history, so that a 100 years from now, they will be remembered as a great group. his role model is Jung Jihoon (Rain) In future want's to try entertainment programs, or even acting took part to High Cut Magazine Photoshot took part in the Face Shop Photoshot took part to iSports Korea Photoshot took part in L'Officiel Hommes Photoshot his ideal type is a woman full of charm has a bright, cheerful and kind personality loves to socialize and befriend people favorite types of music: R&B, pop, Punk Rock his favorite colors are: black, grey, white favorite number 48 favorite types of movies: SF, Fantasy, action favorite food: everything his usual fashion style is tidily casual has an older brother

On January 30, 2012 Baekhyun was formally introduced as a EXO-K member with prologue single 'What Is Love' is only sung by him and his bandmate D.O. On February 2012 Baekhyun appeared in EXO trailer. Baekhyun usually takes a shower with fellow member, Sehun after training. He shares room with Chanyeol. His roommate Chanyeol said that Baekhyun yelps like a dog like 40 times before falling asleep. Baekhyun had personality that bright, cheerful, and kind. He loves to socialize and befriend people. His ideal type is woman with full of charms. He also had motto 'Life is Only a Path Full of Efforts'.

Zhang Yixing

Yixing  is a county-level city with a population of 1.24 million administrated under the prefecture-level city of Wuxi in southern Jiangsu province, People's Republic of China, and is part of the Yangtze River Delta. With active modern industry as the economical fundamentals, it is more famous for traditional Yixing clay and the pottery made from that especially the "zisha" style teapots. It is also famous in China for thousands of scholars and scientists born here, among whom there are 12 academicians of Chinese Academy of Sciences and 13 academicians of Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Yixing county was established in 221 B.C.(Qin Dynasty) with the name of Yangxian. Between 303 A.D. and 310 A.D., the local aristocrat Zhou Qi who was the eldest son of General Zhou Chu, suppressed rebellions three times. And then Yangxian was renamed Yixing to honor Zhou Qi. In 976 A.D.,Yixing was renamed Yixing as a consequence of avoiding the use of the King's name (Zhao Kuangyi, Emperor Taizong of Song).

Also known as Unicorn. Leader-troll. Perfectly-mannered. Stealer of hearts. The last term is particularly true, because it's happened to me. I think, maybe, it's because Zhang Yixing is just someone you can't help but fall a little (or a lot) in love with. I originally made this for myself because I wanted a timeline, but i dont know I might as well share it because other people might be interested in a timeline with all the videos, pictures, and translations gathered into one place, right? So here it is, and here's to spreading the love.

Wu Yi Fan

Previously, there were rumours that Kris Wu Yi Fan was going solo because of the company restricting his individual growth. Numerous media companies have also attempted to make contact with SM Entertainment to confirm the truth about his termination. SM Entertainment has previously said, “We are currently trying to confirm the truth. Right now we are very troubled, but we will try our very best to ensure that EXO’s activities will be conducted well.” On the other side, Seoul Central District Court has also announced through the media that it has received the lawsuit regarding Kris’s (Wu Yifan) contract termination. Tencent Entertainment contacted SM Entertainment and conducted an interview with the EXO-M members all of the members expressed that Kris’s decision to terminate his contract took them by surprise. Chen disappointingly stated: “The concert that we’ve dreamed about for so long is just about to begin, yet something like this has happened, everyone is very sad.” Tao (Huang Zi Tao) bluntly stated, “This sort of bad behaviour makes others disappointed.” Aside from displaying their dissatisfaction towards Kris, the other members promised their fans that the concert and other schedules will continue.

Tao frankly stated, “It (the request for nullification) was actually right before the concert that is so important to all of us. He did not discuss it with anyone and went ahead with something like this; it’s the worst kind of action that makes people lose faith.” Lay (Zhang Yixing) expressed that, “We, EXO members, have no problem whatsoever with the company. We are continuing with our work.” As to whether the concert will be affected, Chen expressed his own hurt feelings. “The members are all very tired and hurt. The concert that we’ve dreamed about for so long is just about to begin, yet something like this has happened, everyone is very sad.” Xiumin (Kim Minseok) also expressed that they will put in their all to make sure the concert will not be affected “Right now, the 11 members are currently putting their all into preparing for the concert so as to keep our promise with the fans. We Are One.”

Kris Wu Yifan, mononymously credited as Kris is the leader of Exo-M and performs as the group's rapper. Born Kevin Li Jiaheng in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, Kris also holds Canadian citizenship. Kris attended Guangzhou No. 47 High School, Point Grey Secondary School and Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School in Vancouver, Canada and was the captain of the basketball teams for both this schools. He would have pursued a professional career in basketball. In 2007, at age 16, Kris auditioned for S.M. Entertainment's Canadian S.M. Global Auditions, which was held in Vancouver, British Columbia on October 14, 2007. He was attending Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School at the time of the casting. After passing the auditions, he moved to South Korea the following year and became an S.M. trainee. Prior to joining EXO, he made an appearance in an intermission video for the Girls' Generation Tour in 2011. Kris was introduced as the eleventh member of Exo on February 17, 2012. He speaks fluent Cantonese, Mandarin, English, and Korean.