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CONCERT TOUR [DAY OFF]
SEOUL
📅 2026.10.02(FRI)-04(SUN)
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MACAU
📅 2026.10.17(SAT)-18(SUN)
📍 MACAU STUDIO CITY EVENT CENTER
BANGKOK
📅 2026.11.14(SAT)-15(SUN)
📍 THUNDER DOME
JAKARTA
📅 2026.11.21(SAT)-22(SUN)
📍 ISTORA GBK
② EXO의 솔로 활동은 새로운 팬들의 입구가 되고 있었다.
1편에서 다양한 연령대의 팬들을 보며 K-POP 팬덤이 세대를 넘어 확장되고 있다는 것을 느꼈다.
이번에는 또 다른 흥미로운 점을 발견했다.
K-POP은 이제 하나의 장르이자 문화가 되었다. 그래서 해외 팬들은 한 팀만 좋아하기보다 활동 시기에 따라 여러 그룹과 솔로 아티스트를 함께 응원하는 경우가 많았다. 서로의 인스타그램만 봐도 한 시기에는 EXO, 또 다른 시기에는 다른 아티스트를 좋아했던 흔적을 쉽게 찾을 수 있었다. 한국 팬들에게도 익숙한 모습이다.
그런데 새로 유입된 EXO 팬들에게서는 조금 다른 분위기가 느껴졌다.
“나는 EXO만 좋아해.”
이렇게 말하는 해외 팬들을 예상보다 자주 만났다.
그리고 더 흥미로운 점은, 그들 가운데 적지 않은 사람들이 멤버의 솔로 활동을 통해 EXO를 알게 되었다는 것이었다.
도쿄에서 만난 미국인 커플도 그중 한 사례였다. 두 사람은 수호의 솔로 앨범을 먼저 듣게 되었고, 그것이 계기가 되어 EXO의 음악과 멤버들을 찾아보기 시작했다고 했다. 결국 이번 도쿄 콘서트를 보기 위해 미국에서 일본까지 날아왔고, 공연이 끝난 뒤에는 한국 여행까지 이어간다고 했다.
그 모습을 보며 문득 이런 생각이 들었다.
예전에는 그룹 활동이 개인을 알리는 시작점이었다면, 지금은 멤버들의 솔로 활동이 새로운 팬들을 EXO라는 팀으로 이끄는 또 하나의 입구가 되고 있는 것은 아닐까.
물론 이것이 모든 팬들에게 해당하는 이야기는 아니다.
하지만 이번 도쿄 투어에서 직접 만난 팬들과 여러 해외 커뮤니티를 보며, EXO의 솔로 활동은 단순히 ‘개인 활동’ 이상의 의미를 갖고 있다는 인상을 받았다.
각자의 음악과 색깔이 새로운 사람들을 만나고, 그 만남이 결국 EXO라는 팀으로 이어진다.
어쩌면 EXO는 지금도 새로운 팬들을 만나고 있는 중인지도 모른다.
EXO Studies #2
EXO’s Solo Careers Are Becoming a Gateway for New Fans
In the first part of this series, I wrote about the wide range of ages I saw among EXO fans. From teenagers in school uniforms to older fans attending with their families, the Tokyo tour showed me that the fandom now extends across generations.
This time, I noticed something else.
K-pop has become more than music. It is now a genre and a culture of its own. Because of that, many international fans do not necessarily follow only one group. They often support several groups and solo artists, depending on who is active and what kind of music speaks to them at the time.
You can see this even by looking at their Instagram accounts. Someone may have started with EXO, then discovered and supported other artists during EXO’s long periods of limited group activity. This is not unusual among Korean fans either.
And yet, there was something slightly different about the EXO fans I met.
I heard the words, “I only follow EXO,” more often than I had expected.
What was even more interesting was that some of these fans had first discovered EXO through an individual member’s solo work.
One couple I met in Tokyo had flown all the way from the United States for the concert. They first discovered Suho through his solo album, and that experience led them to explore EXO’s music and learn more about the other members.
Eventually, their interest grew strong enough for them to travel from the United States to Japan to see EXO perform. After the Tokyo concert, they were even continuing their journey with a trip to Korea.
Meeting them made me think about how the path into a fandom has changed.
In the past, the group was usually the starting point through which fans discovered each member. Today, the opposite can also happen. A member’s solo music can become the first doorway, leading a new listener toward the group.
Of course, one personal encounter cannot represent the entire fandom. Still, after meeting fans during the Tokyo tour and observing international fan communities online, I began to feel that EXO’s solo activities carry a meaning beyond individual careers.
Each member’s music reaches a different audience. Those separate encounters can eventually lead people back to EXO as a group.
Perhaps EXO is not simply holding on to the fans who have been with them for years.
Perhaps, even now, they are still meeting
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