members feel, but personally I was not completely satisfied with the first stage. In the future I have to practice even harder, to present a more impressive stage.
Sina Entertainment: Ever since debuting in April this year, you’ve been really busy. Comparing the present and pre-debut dreams of the “artist life”, what’s different?
Chanyeol: Before debut everything was really stressful. After appearing onstage, however, now it feels really happy.
Suho: We’re not really trying to compete with other groups, rather, we’re hoping to become even more motivated, wishing that we can share the same stage as many of our seniors.
Sina Entertainment: In comparison to when you debuted, what are the biggest improvements and changes have you each experienced till now?
Suho: We’ve received an interview from the showcase, but at the time I found it hard to speak in front of everyone. Through our activities I met a lot of seniors, and after communicating with them, I can now very comfortably express my thoughts to everyone. It’s the same for performing, I was very nervous before, but now after repeated practice and all types of experiences, I can perform even more perfectly.
Chanyeol: I’ve now learnt how to look into the camera lens during music performances. At first when doing activities with SHINee seniors, the seniors told me how the method of finding the camera lens was very important, also the teamwork between the members have slowly gained tacit understanding. Because I am with the members of EXO-K all day, we are all very familiar now.
Baekhyun: Even though I was very nervous when we first debuted, but now in the field of singing, dancing and performance, I am very confident. We have also begun paying attention to our own images, before we would casually wear sportswear outdoors, but after debuting, even if we’re only going to somewhere close, we have to dress up a little bit.
D.O: There have been improvements in all fields, there has been the most improvement in regards to language. On our debut stage (SBS “Inkigayo”) when asked to introduce our title song, I said “majestic” as “superior”. At the time I was so nervous, my mind went completely blank, I didn’t even say what I prepared beforehand well. Luckily it was because our leader-hyung picked up my words that we got over the problem. Now when we have live shows, I will definitely prepare well beforehand.
Kai: There have been improvements in “sleeping” too, no matter where I am I can sleep immediately. (laughs)
Sehun: Because I am the youngest in the group, hyungs are always letting me be spoilt. In the past I wouldn’t do aegyo very often, but now no matter what show I go on they all ask me to play the cute role, so personally I feel that I’ve improved the most in aegyo. (laughs) Also when we first debuted, I wouldn’t even remember what I did after performances, now I do my best to seem happy on stage, my confident side.
Sina Entertainment: In front of your seniors or in front of TV stations, are you all very careful?
Chanyeol: We are always giving a 90 degrees bow. During our training period we heard a lot of people say how important greetings are, so we always take the initiative to greet seniors.
Sina Entertainment: So after hearing that EXO-K and EXO-M would be debuting at the same time in China and South Korea, how did you feel?
Chanyeol: I’m really happy. Because I am able to debut at the same time as these friends who understand tacitly under the group name EXO, I’m really very happy. Also this kind of fresh group tactic lets us all feel a lot of competitiveness.
Baekhyun: We had been practicing continually, only at the very end did we hear the company say they were using this kind of tactic to debut.

Sina Entertainment: EXO-K and EXO-M are not only one group, on foreign grounds you can also be rivals.
Kai: I don’t think we are rivals. When EXO-K and EXO-M merge into one group, going into the world to promote our music, we are even more radiant.

Sina Entertainment: What charms about EXO-K do you think makes Chinese fans like you?
Suho: I think it’s probably influenced by the popularity of EXO-M’s members.

Sina Entertainment: What is the difference between EXO-K and EXO-M?
Baekhyun: Language?
Chanyeol: The voices are different. The members of EXO-K generally have deeper voices, whereas EXO-M’s voices are crisp and clear. Even though we are performing the same songs, the feeling is very different.
Sina Entertainment: Just finishing your musical activities, what have you been busy with lately?
Chanyeol: Preparing the album, exercising and practicing with the other members at the same time. When not doing activities in China, we usually gather in the practice room. Even though the places of activities are different, but the performances on stage are all the same. So we often talk about our own songs, talk about EXO-M’s members, and learn Chinese.
Sina Entertainment: Within EXO-K, whose Chinese is the best?
EXO-K: It should be Suho-hyung.
Suho: EXO-M has Chinese members within them, so I don’t really count as the best, I just do my best to learn Chinese.
Sina Entertainment: How do you encourage teamwork and relationship between the members?
EXO-K: We have “family meetings”.
Baekhyun: In the past, every week we would gather together to have a family meeting. Nowadays we’re always together, so there’s been more time for us to chat.
Sehun: There are never times when I’m bored when with the members.
Sina Entertainment: Do you usually stay in the dorm? Do you do household chores each on your own? Are there any interesting dorm stories that you can share with everyone?
EXO-K: Each of us have our own household chores we’re responsible for. We complete everything fairly after splitting the roommates into teams.
Kai: We’ll use rock, paper, scissors to decide who washes the dishes.
Chanyeol: At first, our leader, Suho, lost quite often, but recently it’s turned into the youngest Sehun.
D.O: Because recently our maknae has been losing all the time, we don’t play rock, paper, scissors any more, it’s best that we voluntarily do our household chores.
Baekhyun: There aren’t any divides between age groups within EXO-K. Sometimes we’re like a family, sometimes we’re also like friends.

Source: Sina Entertainment
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