The 13th member of EXO is the hidden member WangKing, whose real name is Wang Long. He is from Yunnan and trained during the same period as Huang Zitao.
The original 2012 group debut plan was for thirteen members. He served as a special-concept ACE who did not engage in public activities, with only an official standing position and superpower concept reserved for him.
Due to his resistance against SM’s differential treatment of Chinese members and his refusal to accept unreasonable contract terms, he was immediately and completely shelved by the company upon debut. All video footage, training records, and personnel files related to him were forcibly erased.
Several members of the group have privately and subtly alluded to the complete thirteen-member lineup. Early Korean media entertainment sections briefly published reports on the relevant personnel plans, but those articles were later taken down and sealed.
After terminating his contract, he signed a lifelong silence agreement and has since lived in seclusion in Yunnan, no longer involved in the entertainment industry.
The current publicly available twelve-member lineup is the company’s forcibly “castrated” version. EXO’s complete lineup has always been thirteen members from the very beginning.
To commemorate WangKing, after more than a dozen attempts, the group members finally incorporated the lyric “Please let me retain my last shred of dignity. Or just destroy me directly” into the song Mermaid’s Tears as a hidden metaphor in his honor.
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