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S.M Entertainment’s new boy group EXO-M, who has only debuted for 26 days, showed off how popular they are at ChangSha yesterday. EXO-M, along with Show Luo (Weibo) filmed for <Happy Camp((Weibo)> last night, attracting a lot of fans to the site to chase after their idols. Those who sold scalped tickets to the fans witnessed how popular they are, saying that “Tickets (sold) were one of the most expensive ever; it was not even this expensive when Lee Minho came last year.” One of the members of EXO-M, Lay, who is from ChangSha was particularly happy that he is returning home. “I am always homesick, thus felt much honored that I can film a program back at home.” Reporter: Gong Yi Qun, Reporting from ChangSha, Fan
A mother from Taiwan: It will be hard to catch them live if they are this popular nowEXO-M officially announced their debut on 1st of April in BeiJing. Although they have only debuted for less than a month, they have already gathered loads of popularity. After knowing that EXO-M is coming to ChangSha to film a program, EXO-M’s Baidu Tieba was even more ebullience. EXO-M attracted also a lot of fans to welcome them at the airport when they arrived in ChangSha from Korea.
A large amount of fans gathered outside the building of Hunan broadcasting station yesterday even before 3pm. Some fans also claim that “Numerous fans from Russia, Malaysia and Taiwan actually rushed here.” Madam Lu, born in the 60s was one of the fans who rushed to ChangSha from Taiwan the day before. She said, “They will have a promising future since they are now S.M’s best new boy group.” And one of her favorite members in the group is actually Lay who is from ChangSha, she felt that (guys) “like her son’s age are very hardworking”, when asked why did she rushed to ChangSha to watch them film the program, Madam Lu said that “It will be hard to catch them live if they are this popular now.”
Tickets
It was still hard to get a ticket when prices of scalped tickets was as high as 1600 (Approximately 254USD)EXO-M’s popularity can be seen from the prices of the tickets, although tickets to <happy camp=""> were never sold to people, some scalper will always have a way to get tickets from the audiences. Scalpers were already selling tickets at high prices at 3pm yesterday, 5 hours before the recording started. Prices of the tickets were between 1200yuan (approx. 190USD) to 1600yuan (approx. 254USD) when some reporters went forward to ask. One of the scalpers was exceptionally excited, “Because of EXO and Show Luo, tickets sold today was the most expensive ever since the program started.” He/She also further explained, “Korean artists are pretty good (when it comes to selling tickets), it was pretty hot for HanGeng (Weibo) in the past, and also Lee Minho from last year, however if compared, EXO is even better.”
Although a ticket to a program is comparable to a VIP ticket to a concert, due to the little amount of tickets, fans of EXO-M can still be seen willing to pay 1500yuan (approx. 238USD) for a ticket at 6pm in the evening. But the problem is – they cannot get the tickets on hand.
Strict management, studio was cleared during rehearsalIt has been known to everyone that S.M Entertainment have strict managements to their artistes, it was also the same for EXO-M this time round when coming to ChangSha.EXO-M arrived at ChangSha HuangHua International Airport at 7pm the day before, but only came out at 8pm. Fans guessed that the reason behind this is because it was a long flight and they had to do some grooming before coming out. At around 5pm yesterday, all 6 members of EXO-M arrived at the studio and started rehearsing. People who are not part of production team were all sent out. According to the production team, it was because S.M requested that the studio should be cleared when rehearsing.
“It was honored to return home to film a program”There is a face which ChangSha people are very familiar of in this new group, and that is 2005’s Hunan JingShi <Superstar Academy> 3rd place winner, Lay. After training so hard in Korea, Lay specially introduced himself saying that “I am from ChangSha” when he returned home this time to film a program to the reporters. He also said, “I have been homesick during the period in Korea and thus felt much honored that I can return home to film a program.” Madam Zhang also said, “He felt homesick over there (at Korea), we are also missing him every at home (in ChangSha).” However, Lay was not able to return back to his house when he returns home this time. He said, “(I) have already called my family, but I do not have time to return home.”

credit: Sinatranslated by: PearlynC @ CODE:EXO