10asia D.O's Interview

10asia D.O's Interview

My real name is Do Kyungsoo. 

I was born on January 12, 1993. I have one older brother who is 3 years older than me.I have small black pupils, my eyes are characterized by mostly white. So my fans gave me a nickname “heenjabuja (rich in whites)”

Anyway, when it’s hard [for fans] to tell the members apart, they can think “if his eyes are big with a lot of whites, it must be D.O.”When we did our first broadcast and it came out on SBS , U-Know Yunho sunbaenim gave us a call right after even though he just finished his concert at Tokyo Dome.

One person at a time, he carefully monitored(gave us advice) us, and we put the cell phone on speaker phone mode so the members could all hear together. It seems like at this time, we need advice more on our stages than for entertainment programs.I was a very quiet kid at school. Even when I left for SM, I didn’t really want to let people know, so no matter what I didn’t talk about trainee life. I just lived quietly like that and graduated school.I didn’t even practice the Oh Gwangrok impression I did at MBC MUSIC . I just followed along and my talent playfully and naturally came out. Actually the member with a lot of hidden talents is Baekhyun. 

On my elementary school graduation photo, my personal skill is the “mwuhya (what did you say?) game” but I can’t remember what that was at all. It’s really a mystery, even I don’t know what that is. It was probably one of those trendy sayings, but…. Why did I put that as my specialty?Since elementary school, I liked to sing and listen to songs and stuff. Since high school, if there was anything like a singing competition, I always went. As I was going to contests, getting awards, I got casted for SM. At that time I didn’t even know what company SM was, so I didn’t believe it. I thought, what is this, is it for real?On our debut stage, when I made a mistake in the ment, my mind went blank. If I said I did well in the rehearsal…… Would you like to believe me? Only the thought that it’s a live broadcast kept coming, even as I went up on stage inside I was like “magnificent magnificent magnificent….”, I was only memorizing this. It even got to the point where I didn’t look at the camera. Even so, when the time for talking came, in my head every letter just disappeared. (Sehun: Yeah, so they deleted it.) Besides the character “ㅇ,” I couldn’t think of anything.

So, I said “superior orchestra,” but I was so out of my mind that I didn’t even know I used those kind of words. I don’t want to ever see that broadcast again. Haa.

credit: 10asia translations: xiushipao @ CODE:EXO