Is it EXO Kai?

In the latest The Adventures of Young-Ji, Young Ji headed to a factory and found out she would be packaging EXO Kai‘s newest solo mini-album, KAI (开). She learned the ropes to packaging an album. From carefully placing the CD in the case to sticking stickers on, she did it all.

Suddenly, a random employee with silver hair, sunglasses, and a beanie appeared from nowhere and joined Young Ji. To EXO-L, the new employee, who claimed he is a monitor, was clearly the amazing K-Pop idol Kai…But we’ll pretend not to know for the sake of the video.

Of course, Young Ji knew it was Kai from the start as well.

The video turns into a chaotic mess once Kai stepped in and almost blew his cover along the way. Young Ji showed Kai one of the albums photo cards to which Kai said “Oh it’s pretty.” Trying to blow his cover, Young Ji asked him “were you blowing bubbles in this photo?” with Kai answering “that’s not it.”

Young Ji questioned how he, the said “monitor,” would know the answer to her question. Kai played it off by claiming he was a Kai fan.

Young Ji asked Kai to help out with the packaging, and this is where it got chaotic. Kai tried to help Young Ji by closing all the CD cases but was adorably failing at the task. He then tried to grab some CD’s to which he knocked over. Young Ji teased Kai and said he would have to pay for any broken CDs.

Realizing he’s supposed to be a monitor, Kai ordered a talk with Young Ji and finally revealed his identity.

It’s a good thing Kai is an amazing artist or else we’d have broken Albums and missing photocards.

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EXO Kai And The Injuries He Had To Sustained Due To His Idol Career

K-Pop idols have to endure a lot of physical stress in their careers, and EXO‘s Kai recently spoke about this on an episode of Look Me Up.

During the episode, Kai looked at his online profile, and there was a section that talked about how he can’t miss a stage even if he’s sick.

Kai agreed with this and stated that he will always perform unless he hurts his legs.

Kai’s ambition to perform has caused him to suffer many health problems, such as a herniated cervical disk and HIVD (herniated intervertebral disc).

However, Kai views this as an inevitable part of his career, as idols generally have to dance a lot.

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EXO Kai And His Diet Diary During His Solo Debut Preparation

He took a different approach compared to his EXO comebacks.

In light of EXO‘s Kai‘s debut as a solo artist, he appeared on MBC‘s Kim Shin Young’s Hope Song at Noon to speak about “Mmmh” and details of how everything came together for his comeback.

Kai revealed that he was very involved in the process of selecting which song to debut with.

He shared, "When I listened to the songs, I thought about what I wanted everyone to feel from it, and since I’m a dancer, I suggested we focus on the visualization".

According to Kai, SM Entertainment allowed him to do what he wanted for his first song as a solo artist.

"The company told me to do whatever I wanted. I took part in the song, visual art, and choreography".

In particular, Kai revealed the extra lengths he took to diet compared to what he has been doing for EXO’s comebacks despite his tall height of 182 centimeters (6 feet).

"When I do a powerful song, I bulk up to become 68 to 69 kilograms (~150 lbs), but for ‘Mmmh’, I had to show off my bodylines with no body fat whatsoever. So I dieted to be 63 to 64 kilograms (~140 lbs)."

And his hard efforts paid off because his idol friends such as SHINee‘s Taemin, BTS‘s Jimin, Ha Sungwoon, and VIXX‘s Ravi had nothing but praise for Kai’s new song.

"They gave me a lot of advice, but first, they just overwhelmed me with compliments about how much they loved it. But Taemin is the type to just be direct with me, and we like doing that for each other."