Solji released her single “The Days We Were Us” on November 21, and she was busy promoting it the following weeks. That wonderful song’s promotions in addition to EXID’s usual exciting activities has made December a very busy month.
May your hearts be warmed this winter by EXID.
Upcoming Activities
🦋 Boys Planet
Solji will be one of the two vocal masters alongside singer Onestar for Mnet’s upcoming show “Boys Planet”. It is a singing competition show. A new kpop group will be formed from the winners. The show is expected to air in February 2023.
🌹 Tell Me It’s Love
Hani was pictured on set for upcoming kdrama “Tell Me It’s Love”. The drama is set to air in February 2023 on Disney Plus. <source>
🌻 FEVER
Jeonghwa is cast as the former soccer player Hayeong (“하영”) in the upcoming movie “FEVER”. The movie is about the humanism of restarting after experiencing growing pains in the 20’s. The movie is expected to be released in 2023. <source>
🌻 Mask Girl
Jeonghwa plays Lee Areum in the upcoming Netflix drama “Mask Girl”. It is based on the webtoon of the same name. The series is tentatively scheduled to be released in June 2023. <source>
Ongoing Activities
🌹 Fantasy Spot
Hani plays the main character Heejae (“희재”) in the comedy romance that is “Fantasy Spot, which was formerly named “Their Report Card”. It is the story of women who are discovering sexuality and love. <more info>
🥖 Hyelin Does it For You
Hyelin continues to publish beauty product reviews in her series “Hyelin Does it For You” on YouTube channel Studio Codic. The name is a clever pun in Korean with the verb intentionally misspelled to resemble Hyelin’s name. <more info>
Hyelin has shared three reviews in the past month:
Follow the channel and like the videos to support Hyelin if you haven’t already.
Other Recent Activities
🦋🎮🌹🥖🌻 ZEISS Korea Year End Party
EXID performed for the ZEISS company’s new end party on December 13. The songs performed were “DDD”, “Fire”, “L.I.E”, and “Up & Down”. Those lucky employees!
🦋🥖🌻 DNA Mate
Solji and her brother Juseung joined MBC’s show “DNA Mate” on December 20. Solji visits one of her brother’s seven restaurants, and viewers are surprised at their skinship and how close they are. Next they meet up with Hyelin and Jeonghwa to go camping. Solji’s brother cooks them delicious steak. Solji and her brother are very close, and it is very sweet to see.
🦋 AVA DREAM
Solji joined the metaverse singing program AVA DREAM by TV Chosun for episode 8 on December 5. Her avatar was Princess Fiona. Among the performances was Solji’s cover of “I” by Taeyeon.
🦋 Birthday
Solji was born January 10, 1989. She will celebrate her 35th birthday (– 34th by international age counting. LEGGOs will of course be celebrating her birthday too. Some fan celebrations have already been announced, and more will be soon.
🦋 COVID-19
Our precious idol Solji caught COVID-19 again. Her concert was canceled as a result. She posted an apology on December 22:
I’ve been waiting for tomorrow.
Solji’s Instagram post, translated (source)
I’m so sad as I worked hard with excitement.
I hope you stay healthy and don’t catch a cold.
Let’s stay healthy.
I’m so sorry and I love you so much!!
We hope that Solji recovers quickly. We all love her very much.
🦋 The Days We Were Us (Full Lyric Video)
Solji released her single “The Days We Were Us” on November 21. Be sure to listen to it <here> if you haven’t already! More videos were published in the days afterwards. Since our last summary article, on November 25, the full lyric video was published.
🦋 DinDin’s Music High
Solji was a guest on DinDin’s Music High on November 26. The broadcast can be downloaded or listened to again on the program’s website <here>.
🦋 Eungsoo CINE
Solji an episode of Eungsoo CINE on December 2. Those wishing to rewatch the broadcast can enjoy it again on Naver Now. <episode>
🦋 Event Horizon Cover
On December 15, Solji shares her cover of “Event Horizon” (“사건의 지평선”) by Younha.
🦋 G.O.D’s Lunch Attack
On December 16, Solji was a guest on G.O.D’s Lunch Attack. It is a show on Naver Now. with MC’s Ahn Danny and Son Hoyoung of the kpop group G.O.D.
🦋 GOT7 Youngjae’s Best Friend
On December 2, Solji joined Lee Mujin on the FM4U (91.9MHz) radio show GOT7 Youngjae’s Best Friend. It was a visible radio, so there is a video to enjoy too.
🦋 Havy
Solji joins vocalist Havy on his YouTube channel and sings her new song “The Days We Were Us”. Famous song cover TikToker and YouTuber Hyeda surprises Solji as she joins the singing of the song.
🦋 Knight
Celia is the newest character to be added to the online racing game Tales Runner. For her addition to the game, her OST “Knight” was released on December 7. Solji sings the OST impressively. She is incredibly sexy doing rock music.
🦋 K-Wave Festival
The 2022 K-Wave Festival “Gateway to Korea” took place on December 10. It encourages and congratulates those who have worked hard to promote Korean culture throughout the year. Awards, performances, prizes, games, and more made it a very fun experience. One of the performers was our idol EXID’s Solji.
🦋 Noon Song of Hope
On December 1, Solji joined Navi on Noon Song of Hope, a radio program on MBC Radio’s FM4U (91.9 MHz) station.
🦋 Power FM
On November 29, Solji joins Jung Dongha as guests on Power FM (107.7 MHz). It is a visible radio, so there is video in addition to regular radio. SBS shared the full episode on YouTube for fans to enjoy.
After the show, Solji saw LEGGOs and excitedly ran to them. (She loves us so much!)
🦋 Solji Reviews Her Career with Ordinary People
Four ordinary people from age 10 to 50 are invited to review Solji’s career with her. Solji who has been an idol, professor, vocal trainer, and king of mask singer impresses the four people very much with her experience, talent, and beauty.
Watching this video, we LEGGOs can feel proud of Solji.
🦋 Street Buskers
EXID’s Solji and Jung Dongha, professors of Practical Music at Yong-in Arts & Science University, and practical music students perform a street busking in early December. The busking is dedicated to those who are tired and struggling with their dreams.
The full busking performance was uploaded to the Rolling Studio YouTube channel, but it was sadly taken down after copyright issues. It may be uploaded again after those issues are resolved.
🦋 (Canceled) Winter Festa 2022: Solist Concert
“Winter Festa 2022” is a set of concerts at the end of the year to give warmth and excitement during the winter. Seven talented singers and groups perform their own concerts. <more info>
Solji’s concert was set for December 23, but it was canceled the day before because Solji tested positive for COVID-19. All tickets purchased for her concert will be refunded.
🦋 YTN News Daily Weather Forecast
On December 1, Solji was the forecaster on YTN News. She enters the scene singing her new song to warm our hearts in this cold winter, then she gives us the daily forecast.
🎮 Birthday
ELLY was born December 10, 1991. LEGGOs celebrated her 32nd birthday — 31st by international age counting — and sent ELLY many happy birthday wishes. ELLY thanked us in an Instagram post.
Translated, the caption is:
Thank you to everyone who wished me a happy birthday 🙂 I feel very blessed I hope you are always full of happiness and laughter. Thank you and I love you
translation by EXID Global (source)
LEGGO News did not write a birthday article this year, but our staff admin and artist celebrated by meeting and having a Korean dinner together and toasting to ELLY.
🌹 Yongjin’s Health Center
On December 15, Hani and costar Park Sunho go on Yongjin’s Health Center. The two play main characters comedy romance series “Fantasy Spot” (aka “Fanta-G Spot”). In Yongjin’s Health Center, they promote their new show and give relationship advice.
🌻 New Profile Pictures
J,Wide Company shared some lovely pictures of our goddess Jeonghwa on December 2. The pictures were shared on the company’s Naver and Instagram and received a lot of positive responses. Our Jeonghwa is the cutest maknae! <naver post>
💛 FIRE Photocards and Album Sale
Hyelinikid staff and friends purchased 333 albums to support EXID’s recent comeback. Now they are selling the photocards and albums. All proceeds will be used for Hyelin’s birthday gift next year.
✨EXID 10th Anniversary Album [X] Photocards Sale✨
— 혜린탐구생활 (Hyelinikid) (@hyelinikid) November 3, 2022
For those who could not collect a complete set of photocards: We have the full sets of regular photocards, special cards, and Ktown4u photocards. All proceeds go to Hyelin’s birthday gift next year! https://t.co/J4BHTxJlVL
💛 VLive Backup
Many fans worry that EXID’s V-Live content will disappear at the end of the year when the website shuts down. Thankfully, that will not happen because some wonderful LEGGOs have made backups of the content. On of those LEGGOs is @ahj_squid on Twitter who shared a Google Drive link to his copy of the content.