{"id":154052,"date":"2025-12-14T08:40:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T16:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=154052"},"modified":"2025-12-14T08:40:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T16:40:16","slug":"exos-lay-flew-back-to-china-on-the-morning-of-the-fan-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/exos-lay-flew-back-to-china-on-the-morning-of-the-fan-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"EXO&#8217;s Lay flew back to China on the morning of the fan meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>EXO<\/strong> is currently the talk of the town for all the wrong reasons, as it was reported last minute that one of the members, <strong>Lay,<\/strong> would be absent from EXO\u2019s fan meeting. Although there were no details about the idol\u2019s absence, fans are disappointed that the idol even left Korea during the morning of the event.<\/p>\n<p>On December 14, SM Entertainment, EXO\u2019s music agency, confirmed the news to media outlets, stating,<strong> &#8220;<em>It is true that Lay departed for China today.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong> However, the agency remained silent about the specific reasons that led to the decision.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-154054\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/EXOs-Lay-absence-might-be-china-political-state-right-now.jpg\" alt=\"The idol will not be part of the promotions in South Korea\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/EXOs-Lay-absence-might-be-china-political-state-right-now.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/EXOs-Lay-absence-might-be-china-political-state-right-now-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/EXOs-Lay-absence-might-be-china-political-state-right-now-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/EXOs-Lay-absence-might-be-china-political-state-right-now-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/EXOs-Lay-absence-might-be-china-political-state-right-now-1100x733.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/EXOs-Lay-absence-might-be-china-political-state-right-now-680x453.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/EXOs-Lay-absence-might-be-china-political-state-right-now-200x133.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>South Korean media outlets confirmed that Lay rehearsed for the fan meeting on December 13. However, immediately after the rehearsal, the idol communicated that it would be <strong>difficult<\/strong> for him to attend the event and boarded a flight to China the morning of the event.<\/p>\n<p>Many K-Netizens believe that Lay\u2019s absence might be related to political issues between China and South Korea, given the timing of the call and his <strong>immediate departure<\/strong> from the country. What do you think?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXO is currently the talk of the town for all the wrong reasons, as it was reported last minute that one of the members, Lay, would be absent from EXO\u2019s fan meeting. Although there were no details about the idol\u2019s absence, fans are disappointed that the idol even left Korea during the morning of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3102,"featured_media":154055,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,16,7],"tags":[939],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-154052","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\/154052","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=154052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154052"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=154052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}