Here is a friendly heads up that it is officially D.O.'s birthday in South Korea and therefore Happy D.O. Day to all who celebrate!
I will be posting especially to celebrate, as he is my #UltBias, so if that is not something you want to be spammed with, feel free to mute the #HappyDODay hashtag. 😁
If you are a fan of D.O., aka 디오, aka Doh Kyungsoo, aka 도경수, I invite you to use the HappyDODay hashtag to celebrate his birthday with me. 🥳
#HappyDODay ! It is still #DohKyungsoo's birthday here in the land of ice and snow and the long 'o', and I finally have time to sit down and post this celebration of my favorite celebrity! I want to highlight some of the many activities #도경수 was up to since his last birthday.
Let's start!
#HappyDODay!
On his actual birthday last year, he kicked off a variety show called #NoMath_SchoolTrip where he and old (Zico and Crush) and new (Choi Junghoon, Lee Yongjin, Yang Sechan) friends had fun in Japan together.
Choi Junghoon heard it was #DohKyungsoo's birthday and gave him a very thoughtful gift, tho he'd never met him before: a lovely book. 🥰
Was it Zico or Crush who immediately asked, "Kyungsoo-yah, when was the last time you actually read a book?!" 😳😂
#HappyDODay !
A few days later, D.O. had his first ever fan meet in years, as there was the pandemic and his enlistment before. He thoroughly enjoyed himself and hammed it up on stage.
Here is a video of when fans requested he sing some of an #EXO song and he had forgotten it existed, so he had to google it. 😅 Absolutely hilarious.
#도경수
#HappyDODay!
Back to #NoMath_SchoolTrip... one of the challenges the friends had to do was to take photos and then the producers would post them on Insta and ask fans to "Like" the ones they liked best. Whoever took the photos that the most people liked won the challenge. But the photographer was not revealed at first!
Fans, fully knowing #DohKyungsoo's keen eye for a good photo, figured it out, though...
https://www.instagram.com/p/CoQriKcBwnC/
#HappyDODay!
One more big event from #NoMath_SchoolTrip that is really #DohKyungsoo specific is when he got to meet PENGUINS.
See, each member of #EXO has an animal symbol, and #디오's is the penguin.
Here is a minute clip (no English subs, sorry) of the group meeting penguins in Japan.
https://youtu.be/kMWS1NcAOik
#HappyDODay!
In April last year, #EXO had a couple fan meets (the second was live-streamed). I will spare you from re-hashing all the fun stuff as you can find my toot-thread here: https://tech.lgbt/@jillithd/110163502903951295
HE HAD SO MUCH FUN! Here are some photos of how much #DohKyungsoo was smiling getting to be up there on stage with his fans.
*rubs hands together* #EXO fan meet thread! Here's a good video of the whole group dancing to "Love Me Right"! (I'm not a dancers, but I would think dancing in jeans would be way no fun zone. The fabric isn't very stretchy!) https://twitter.com/x_yxxm/status/1644664138457845762
#HappyDODay !
Of course, there was dancing at the #EXO fan meet last year, including a group performance of "Love Me Right."
Here is an official D.O. #디오 fancam of that performance. My favorite are the non-jazz hands at the end: https://youtu.be/lMaBKwAke2U
#HappyDODay!
Here is a fun duo of photos from the #EXO fan meet last year. The picture and the picture being taken!
#DohKyungsoo had mentioned he'd never taken a photo with a fan's camera before, but had seen other celebrities do it, so he wanted to try, too.
#HappyDODay!
I will preface this photo from the #EXO fan meet with the fact that I have NO IDEA what was being discussed or WHY #DohKyungsoo was making this gesture. He oftentimes has no clue that what he says or does could be taken euphemistically.
I 💖 him with my whole entire soul. This photo is a gosh-darned keeper if there ever was one.
#HappyDODay!
In Q2 of last year, #EXO filmed and released another season of their variety show "EXO Ladder" which usually involves the whole group spending the weekend together, competitive games, and lots of cameras.
Full disclosure: I have not watched this yet. (I haven't even completed No Math School Trip yet!)
BUT! These pictures where #DohKyungsoo is wearing light-up fairy wings DEFINITELY HAPPENED, so they must be shared. You're welcome.
Ope, I forgot an event from the #EXO fanmeet last year! They performed a brand new song! "Let Me In" was their first single on the album "Exist" that they'd release a couple months later. This performance was the grand reveal!
Note: LOOK AT HOW PACKED THAT STADIUM IS! They had fanmeets two days in a row. They packed that sucker twice!
D.O. opens, then goes to SUHO, Kai (💔), Xiumin, Baekhyun, Chen, Chanyeol and Sehun. Nice re-intro of all of them.
Never one to shy away from maximizing album and merch sales, #EXO had THREE themes for their 2023 album "Exist." One for each single. #kpop
Here is the official music video for "Let Me In":
https://youtu.be/91VhCIQNjIc
This was my least favorite of the three themes. Here are two D.O. #디오 photos from it.
The second single from #EXO's 2023 album "Exist" was a fun, laid-back, funky song called "Hear Me Out."
D.O. #디오, unfortunately, had very few lines in this song, but we can see him ace them in this behind-the-scenes clip:
https://youtu.be/kSGixCrXOI4?t=15m51s
Official music video here:
https://youtu.be/r2VZQa2IgP4
#kpop
Here are some Hear Me Out themed photos of D.O.
#HappyDODay !
I think they had plans to do dance performances of "Hear Me Out", but SM Entertainment fucked up and Kai suddenly had to do his military enlistment with less than two weeks notice.
Here's a behind-the-scenes dance practice video of what could have been.
https://youtu.be/fFapahgjwew
Bonus #DohKyungsoo behind the camera for some shots. (More on this for him, later.)
#HappyDODay!
The third single from #EXO in 2023 was "Cream Soda." It included super challenging choreography and falsetto singing. Wowza.
There were multiple themes FOR JUST THIS SONG. It was a song they performed on multiple TV stages, too.
First up: the official music video
https://youtu.be/i5nUufn_FmE
Three key outfit choices on D.O. #디오 in that music video are:
1. Big Chain Necklace
2. Bowtie Tuxedo
3. Sexy Vampire
#kpop
#HappyDODay!
1. Big Chain Necklace theme for Cream Soda
This outfit theme was in #EXO's MNET K-POP TV performance. D.O.'s outfit is fine, really. I prefer SUHO's pink satin shirt. Xiumin's sequined suit and mullet, though? 😬
#kpop
Performance:
https://youtu.be/kD-wty74zXs
D.O. face cam:
https://youtu.be/j7AUKMbgY88
#HappyDODay!
1. Big Chain Necklace Redux
I had not seen this #EXO Cream Soda performance before today!
D.O. #디오 has a big chain necklace again, but this time Xiumin has the satin shirt, Chen and SUHO have coin-themed shirts, and Sehun's pants are distracting.
The camera cuts are very choppy and tough to watch, imo. Not my favorite directing.
#kpop
Whole group performance
https://youtu.be/bR1cxmb9jkA
D.O. fan cam
https://youtu.be/hS7_sBnLZwg
#HappyDODay!
2. Bowtie Tuxedo theme for Cream Soda
#EXO performed Cream Soda on Inkigayo in black bowtie tuxedos.
There are multiple versions of this, so I think they had to dance it 3 or 4 times in a row!
#kpop
Group performance
https://youtu.be/noIAZcwCDA0
D.O. #디오 fan cam
https://youtu.be/5d3ukE3iI4Y
The Cream Soda jeans theme? That's the best way I can describe #EXO's Seasons performance costume theme.
(Some views of the audience in this video. I admit, I would probably cry, too, if I were sitting that close to a live EXO performance.)
#kpop
Group performance
https://youtu.be/MyYBRo4MHsU
#HappyDODay!
I'm going to interrupt this thread of Cream Soda performances and focus for a second on the jeans theme.
D.O. #디오 had a photo shoot for the #EXO Exist album that had him in a studded jean jacket and pants. The outfit itself is underwhelming, IMHO, but the PHOTOS! 🤩
This was my favorite outfit of all the Exist outfits for D.O. I even got that green/orange as one of the merch cards in their album. 😍
3. Sexy Bedroom Vampire Theme for Cream Soda
#EXO graced the stage at Music Bank with this Sexy Bedroom Vampire outfit theme and *fans self*
Group performance:
https://youtu.be/pMM2X6Lk4-M
Full stage choreography video:
https://youtu.be/j-tW1JkhZVI
D.O. fan cam:
https://youtu.be/RJkmwpmCYCw
(Note: the group performance has 1.5mil views, and the D.O. fan cam has 500k views. I think fans appreciated this outfit and performance.)
#kpop #디오
Brightsoo remains the best fanvid maker ever.
#디오
A YouTube short of that sexy vampire performance to Rod Stewart's "Do You Think I'm Sexy"
https://youtube.com/shorts/5WtXDhH40cQ
OK, final #EXO Cream Soda video I want to share is their baseball uniform theme dance "practice".
I think in every single one of these videos, D.O. #디오 does an awkward stutter-step around the 0:36 mark when Chen's first verse starts. Every single one. 😅
D.O. is wearing the number 12 because his birthday is on January 12th. 😁 So, just like penguins are his animal, 12 is his number.
#kpop
In August of last year, #DohKyungsoo's movie #더문 "The Moon" was released.
This movie was multiple years in the making. After the director, Kim Yong Hwa, had worked with Kyungsoo on the #kdrama #AlongWithTheGods, he *had* to have him for the astronaut role in The Moon. He waited until Kyungsoo finished his military enlistment to start filming.
Trailer:
https://youtu.be/gxMM6Ntv78A
As #DohKyungsoo started ramping up promos for his movie The Moon and his upcoming solo album, he did the show "Look Me Up" on 1theK, where a celebrity does web searches for themselves and sees what comes up.
This entire video was adorable, and I took so many screenshots. I will limit myself to sharing only 7.
Here's the video:
https://youtu.be/dfzANZ9V2oM
Spoiler alert: he is beloved
A couple more screenshots from that 1theK "Look Me Up" video with #DohKyungsoo
At one point, he admits he has no idea what the lyrics he sang in a particular song are supposed to mean. 😂
One other performance from #EXO's Exist promo schedule: Dingo's Killing Voice.
On "Killing Voice," the singers sing the hooks for some of their most famous songs. Since EXO has been around for over a decade, they have a lot of hits.
Fellas, they *killed* it. It was awesome. And you could tell the whole group was having a blast!
Except for ... D.O. #디오 😅 He seems pretty low energy, and at one point even coughs.
Still, a great watch/listen. #kpop
#HappyDODay!
In September of last year, D.O. #디오 released his second solo mini album #디오_기대 "기대 Expectation."
It is so good. Where his first album "공감 Empathy" was more hesitant and somber, Expectation is more forward moving and exciting.
Here is the highlight medley video that stars both #DohKyungsoo AND Kim Min-ha, who starred in the #kdrama #Pachinko. It is beautifully done and tells its own short story in just 4 minutes.
#kpop
#HappyDODay!
The first single from D.O. #디오's second album #디오_기대 is "별 떨어진다 (I Do)."
The music video is a sweet animated sequence that calls back to the animated music video for his single "괜찮아도 괜찮아 (That's Okay)" that he released just before leaving for military service.
#kpop
I Do music video:
https://youtu.be/5vmJ_wq2NeA
That's Okay music video:
https://youtu.be/j2aQ_NqeTNw
D.O. #디오 went on a DATE with a fan to help promote his album. It is super adorable. One of #DohKyungsoo's favorite hobbies is to cook, and, after he picks the fan up from her university class, they cook and eat dinner together. 🥰
I also think it is sweet that, while they are driving, he plays his not-yet-released "I Do" single for her, and is visibly nervous about it. 🤗
D.O. #디오 decided to hit up as many promo slots as he could while promoting his album #디오_기대 including a hilarious episode of "The K Star Next Door."
HIL. AR. I. OUS.
https://youtu.be/CUzJFn4Ei68
D.O. #디오 hosted a live countdown to his new album's release for an hour! #디오_기대
Entire countdown video, including music video for "Somebody":
https://youtu.be/oSy61LAo7Zc
The part I want to highlight, though, is this chunk here that Brightsoo included in a fanvid. This poor innocent baby could not understand why his fans chose his chest as their favorite body part. AFTER ALL THOSE SEXY VAMPIRE PERFORMANCES, he had no clue.
https://youtube.com/shorts/4h8HRNTus7Q
The second single from D.O. #디오's second album #디오_기대 was the very catchy "Somebody."
Music video, where he acts as the role of a video production crew member:
https://youtu.be/jNYVbmVIP4A
#kpop
And the adorable behind-the-scenes video where he has a lot of fun as a production crew member. Remember when I commented on him behind the camera in the "Hear Me Out" practice video? I predict "Director-nim Doh Kyungsoo" in the future.
https://youtu.be/Km_4yRvNVQw
D.O. #디오 filmed a short live performance of "Somebody" at a house with a very good doggo. Another callback to that "That's Okay" animated music video, too.
#디오_기대 #kpop
Another promo show D.O. #디오 hit for the #디오_기대 album promotion was "It's Live," where he sings both of his singles.
#kpop
Is it "Lee MuJin Service" or "Limousine Service" for the name of this show? Or both, like a play on how his name sounds like that word?
Anyhoo, D.O. #디오 gets embarrassed easily when trying to do Serious Promotion of himself, and that happened a bit as he sang his own and some cover songs on this show.
#kpop
The most EVENTFUL promo show D.O. #디오 attended was when he was on #AKMU's "The Seasons." It included him:
* acting out a scene from the #kdrama #100DaysMyPrince with half of AKMU
* shocking everyone with a jawdropping performance of "Rewrite the Stars" from the Greatest Showman with the other half of AKMU
#kpop #디오_기대
Most of the episode with him:
https://youtu.be/mw-yKkYU7Zg
Trust me when I tell you to WATCH THIS ⏬️
Greatest Showman song (5.5 MILLION VIEWS)
https://youtu.be/ZH-VB-jSVaU?t=01m40s
#HappyDODay!
After promoting his album, #DohKyungsoo formally left EXO's management company SM Entertainment and started his own management company with another guy named Kyungsoo who had been his manager for many years.
If you are named Kyungsoo and you start up a company with your friend named Kyungsoo, it is only reasonable to name your company "Company SooSoo". 😆
(Soosoo 수수 is part of the name of some grains in Korean, hence the grainy logo.)
The year 2023 was a year of some new adventures for #DohKyungsoo that he had never really done before!
* more aegyo (cute faces/expressions) for fans
* exposed skin instead of wearing shirts under his shirts
* creating an Instagram account! https://www.instagram.com/d.o.hkyungsoo
* taking and sharing selfies!
#HappyDODay!
Although he isn't very experienced at taking selfies, #DohKyungsoo really has an excellent eye for taking photographs. Here are a few he shared with fans from this past year.
The rainbow photo was taken while filming the medley video for #디오_기대 .
The third variety show #DohKyungsoo filmed this year was called 꽁꽁팥팥 (GBRB: Reap What You Sow) where he and three of his hyungs (close older male friends) Kim Woo-bin, Lee Kwangsoo, and Kim Kibang try out farming together.
Here is a funny clip where Kwangsoo freaks out about a baby snake and Kyungsoo picks it up and delivers it to safety.
https://youtube.com/shorts/1rfTYMgA0N4
His hyungs love to pick on him. 😅
At a recent awards show (44th Blue Dragon Awards) there was a very odd performance by Park Jin Young.
JYP's performance (a very long cringey 5 minutes)
https://youtu.be/j1BrwfiwLgI
But the expressions the celebrities in the audience were making were just as entertaining. And our dearly beloved #DohKyungsoo has such an expressive face. 😅
I had to make gifs of the two moments Kyungsoo created.
(Thanks to @cinderdazzle612 for reminding me!)
Finally, thanks so much for bearing with me as I celebrated my #UltBias #DohKyungsoo #도경수 #디오 D.O. on his birthday. It is almost 11pm now where I live. So I finished up this thread right on time.
Kyungsoo just really makes me smile and gives me so much joy in so many things he does. I feel lucky to be able to share these moments of his life.
A parting gift of one last fanvid by Brightsoo that includes many moments from the past year.
https://youtube.com/shorts/ICPsAkj6Yxo
OK, I lied.
At the end of that first Cream Soda D.O. fan cam is this Absolute Gem™️ of a moment from Kyungsoo as the filming has completed.
How can you not love this character?! 🤣
#HappyDODay #디오
HOW DID I FORGET the EXO countdown where all the members tried wearing these ears that supposedly move based on thoughts and Kyungsoo asked Chanyeol to SHOWER with him?! 😂
https://youtube.com/shorts/F_vRV_EfTQg
(ChanSoo is my favorite EXO ship)
@JillsJoy Squeals .. this whole thing was so perfectly perfect and I love all 3 of them. 
Yet again Suhyun is all of us! 
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