{"id":154175,"date":"2025-12-15T13:16:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T21:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=154175"},"modified":"2025-12-15T13:16:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T21:16:34","slug":"exos-lay-apologizes-for-missing-exos-fan-meeting-in-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/exos-lay-apologizes-for-missing-exos-fan-meeting-in-south-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"EXO&#8217;s Lay apologizes for missing EXO\u2019s fan meeting in South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>EXO<\/strong> member<strong> Lay<\/strong> breaks his silence after the massive backlash due to his absence in EXO\u2019s fan meeting, <em>\u201cEXO\u2019verse.\u201d<\/em> SM Entertainment and the idol have just announced that the idol returned to China without providing any further explanation to the fans who were waiting to see him.<\/p>\n<p>On December 14 KST, Lay took over a Chinese social media platform to talk with the fans and address the reason why he couldn\u2019t be<strong> present<\/strong> during EXO\u2019s fan meeting held in South Korea at Incheon&#8217;s INSPIRE Arena.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-154181\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Lay-I-sincerely-apologize-to-everyone-who-may-have-been-inconvenienced-by-my-absence.-.jpg\" alt=\"The idol flew back to china during EXO event \" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Lay-I-sincerely-apologize-to-everyone-who-may-have-been-inconvenienced-by-my-absence.-.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Lay-I-sincerely-apologize-to-everyone-who-may-have-been-inconvenienced-by-my-absence.--300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Lay-I-sincerely-apologize-to-everyone-who-may-have-been-inconvenienced-by-my-absence.--1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Lay-I-sincerely-apologize-to-everyone-who-may-have-been-inconvenienced-by-my-absence.--768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Lay-I-sincerely-apologize-to-everyone-who-may-have-been-inconvenienced-by-my-absence.--1100x733.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Lay-I-sincerely-apologize-to-everyone-who-may-have-been-inconvenienced-by-my-absence.--680x453.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Lay-I-sincerely-apologize-to-everyone-who-may-have-been-inconvenienced-by-my-absence.--200x133.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Why did Lay miss EXO\u2019s fan meeting?<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Lay explained that he had to urgently return to Beijing to attend an important event hosted by the National Theatre of China on December 14<\/strong>. Along with the message, the idol released a short statement to apologize to his fellow members and all of the fans who were at the event:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>\u201cI <strong>sincerely apologize<\/strong> to everyone who may have been inconvenienced by my absence.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXO member Lay breaks his silence after the massive backlash due to his absence in EXO\u2019s fan meeting, \u201cEXO\u2019verse.\u201d SM Entertainment and the idol have just announced that the idol returned to China without providing any further explanation to the fans who were waiting to see him. On December 14 KST, Lay took over a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3102,"featured_media":154182,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,16,7],"tags":[939],"class_list":{"0":"post-154175","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\/154175","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=154175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}