{"id":142220,"date":"2025-05-14T13:56:06","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T20:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=142220"},"modified":"2025-05-14T13:56:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T20:56:06","slug":"exos-kai-opens-up-about-his-mental-health-in-a-new-interview-with-elle-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/exos-kai-opens-up-about-his-mental-health-in-a-new-interview-with-elle-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"EXO\u2019s Kai opens up about his mental health in a new interview with Elle Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After enlisting in the South Korean military last year,<strong> EXO<\/strong>\u2019s <strong>Kai<\/strong> is back in the Kpop scene. The idol has set the tone of his new album, \u201cWait On Me,\u201d and it\u2019s ready to share many of his experiences during his hiatus, including his mental health.<\/p>\n<p>Kai has graced the cover of Elle Korea\u2019s June issue in partnership with Versace\u2019s fragrance, <em>\u201cEros Energy,\u201d<\/em> for the first time.<strong> The idol looked incredible in the new pictorials and expressed how happy he was to see his fans after two years on his first solo world tour,<\/strong> <em>\u201cKAION.\u201d<\/em> In addition, the idol also reflected on his mental health over the years.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-142223\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/EXOs-looks-amazing-in-new-versace-fragance-pictorial-for-elle-korea.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/EXOs-looks-amazing-in-new-versace-fragance-pictorial-for-elle-korea.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/EXOs-looks-amazing-in-new-versace-fragance-pictorial-for-elle-korea-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/EXOs-looks-amazing-in-new-versace-fragance-pictorial-for-elle-korea-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/EXOs-looks-amazing-in-new-versace-fragance-pictorial-for-elle-korea-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/EXOs-looks-amazing-in-new-versace-fragance-pictorial-for-elle-korea-1100x733.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/EXOs-looks-amazing-in-new-versace-fragance-pictorial-for-elle-korea-680x453.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/EXOs-looks-amazing-in-new-versace-fragance-pictorial-for-elle-korea-200x133.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>Because I\u2019m certain that I\u2019m doing my very best right now, it\u2019s physically exhausting, but<strong> I\u2019m mentally very happy and deeply satisfied<\/strong>. I learned a lot from my experience as a public service worker. My attitude toward people hasn\u2019t changed, but now that I talk more about relatable everyday experiences, I think many people find me more approachable.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After enlisting in the South Korean military last year, EXO\u2019s Kai is back in the Kpop scene. The idol has set the tone of his new album, \u201cWait On Me,\u201d and it\u2019s ready to share many of his experiences during his hiatus, including his mental health. Kai has graced the cover of Elle Korea\u2019s June [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3102,"featured_media":142221,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,16,7],"tags":[939],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-142220","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-kpop","9":"category-news","10":"tag-exo"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142220"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=142220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}