40 Fun Facts About Baekhyun

In Exo's 2012 debut videos, each member commands a supernatural power; which one belongs to Baekhyun?

Light is Baekhyun's power in Exo's origin story, which splits twelve legendary forces between the members. Chanyeol was given fire, Suho water and Lay healing.

Baekhyun began his mandatory military service on May 6, 2021, a date that also marked which occasion?

His birthday fell on enlistment day, so he turned 29 as he reported for duty. He served as a public service worker and was discharged in February 2023.

Baekhyun trained in martial arts as a boy and holds a third-degree black belt in which Korean discipline?

Hapkido is a Korean self-defence art built on joint locks, throws and kicks, and Baekhyun holds its third dan.

Which singer and actress joined Baekhyun on 'Dream', the 2016 duet that spent three weeks at number one in Korea?

Suzy was the composer's first pick, and Baekhyun was chosen later as her partner. Park Geun-tae said it took a year to get both singers to take part.

SuperM, the supergroup Baekhyun joined in 2019, was billed at its launch as which superhero team 'of K-pop'?

The Avengers was the comparison SM used, since all seven members were already stars of Shinee, Exo, NCT 127 or WayV. Their first EP entered the US album chart at number one.

In which 2016 historical drama did Baekhyun make his television acting debut as the playful 10th Prince, Wang Eun?

Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo sends a modern woman back to 10th-century Goryeo, where Baekhyun's prince becomes her first friend. The part won him a New Star Award.

Baekhyun made his musical theatre debut in 2014 as Don Lockwood in a Korean staging of which Hollywood classic?

Singin' in the Rain is set at the end of the silent-film era, with Don Lockwood as its romantic lead. The Seoul staging was produced by SM C&C, part of Baekhyun's agency at the time.

In 2023 Baekhyun voiced Ezreal in Heartsteel, a virtual boy band made up of characters from which video game?

League of Legends maker Riot Games cast him beside ØZI, Tobi Lou and Cal Scruby as the band's vocalists. Riot had already built a virtual girl group, K/DA, the same way.

Which label did Baekhyun found, launching his solo work there in January 2024 alongside bandmates Chen and Xiumin?

INB100 took over solo work for all three singers under a deal that left their Exo group activities with SM Entertainment.

What position did Baekhyun hold in SuperM, the seven-man group drawn from Shinee, Exo, NCT 127 and WayV?

Leader was Baekhyun's title even though Taemin, who debuted with Shinee in 2008, had four more years of stage experience.

Which fellow Exo-K member joined Baekhyun in SuperM when the supergroup released its debut EP in October 2019?

Kai and Baekhyun were Exo's two representatives in the seven-man line-up. Both returned to it in 2020 for SuperM's first studio album, Super One.

Baekhyun was born in 1992 in which satellite city of Seoul, where he later sang in a Jungwon High School band?

Bucheon sits between Seoul and Incheon, about 25 kilometres from the capital. Baekhyun's school band there won a local music festival.

Which lead single from Baekhyun's 2019 solo debut EP has a partly black-and-white video that was filmed in Paju?

UN Village is named after a hillside enclave in Seoul's Hannam-dong, where the song's couple share a romantic night. Its parent EP went straight to number one in South Korea.

Which 2020 Baekhyun single, written by Kenzie, set off a viral dance challenge he launched with choreographer Kasper?

Candy has Baekhyun compare his charms to sweet flavours such as cinnamon, mint and bubble gum. It also won him his first music-show trophy, on Show Champion.

Which 2020 EP made Baekhyun the first South Korean soloist in 19 years to sell a million copies of an album?

Delight passed a million sales by the start of July, after more than 730,000 pre-orders had already set a record for a South Korean soloist.

Which Mnet Asian Music Awards category did Baekhyun win three years running, from 2019 to 2021, as a soloist?

Best Male Artist went to Baekhyun in 2019, 2020 and 2021, the last of them while he was away on military service.

Which 2016 EP was the debut release of Exo-CBX, the trio Baekhyun formed with bandmates Chen and Xiumin?

Hey Mama! topped both South Korea's Gaon album chart and the Billboard World Albums chart. The trio's name joins the first letters of the three stage names.

Baekhyun's Exo-K sang in Korean, while its twin sub-group Exo-M released the same songs in which language?

Mandarin was the language of Exo-M, aimed at the Chinese market, and the two halves promoted in parallel until 2014. Baekhyun was the last Exo-K member to become a trainee.

Which weekly music show did Baekhyun co-host with fellow Exo member Suho from February to November 2014?

Inkigayo kept the pair as regular hosts for nine months, until they stepped down to prepare for Exo's next comeback.

Which singer played the time-travelling heroine befriended by Baekhyun's prince in his 2016 television drama debut?

IU, credited under her real name Lee Ji-eun, played Hae Soo, a 21st-century woman thrown back to the 10th century during a solar eclipse.

Which Sistar singer released a 2017 duet with Baekhyun that topped every South Korean online music chart at once?

Soyou's duet scored what the Korean music business calls an all-kill. Its video starred An Yu-jin, who went on to join the girl group Ive, as a high school student.

Which rapper joined Baekhyun on 'Young', a 2018 electro-pop single about refusing to live like everyone else?

Loco and Baekhyun reached number four on Billboard's World Digital Song Sales chart with the track, which came out through the SM Station series.

Which indie-pop act, a duo until 2020, featured Baekhyun on 'Leo', a number two hit on the Gaon Digital Chart?

Bolbbalgan4, also styled BOL4, had become the solo project of singer Ahn Ji-young about a month before the duet came out in May 2020.

Baekhyun's 2020 remake of 'Garden in the Air' opened a project marking 20 years since which SM singer's debut?

BoA first released the song on her 2005 album Girls on Top. Baekhyun's version was the opening release of the tribute series Our Beloved BoA.

Which web series featured Baekhyun's song 'Beautiful', the first web-drama soundtrack single to top digital charts?

Exo Next Door cast four members, Baekhyun among them, as versions of themselves who move in beside a shy fan. It drew 50 million views and was recut as a film.

Baekhyun sang 'My Love' for which 2020 medical drama starring Han Suk-kyu as the surgeon known as Teacher Kim?

Dr. Romantic 2 put Baekhyun's song on its soundtrack, and he came back in 2023 to sing 'Hello' for the third season.

Which fashion house named Baekhyun a brand ambassador in 2020, the year he fronted a Harper's Bazaar Korea cover?

Burberry announced the deal in September 2020, the same month Harper's Bazaar Korea unveiled him as the cover star of its October issue.

In the video for which 2024 single, his first under his own label, does Baekhyun play a vampire?

Pineapple Slice ends with Baekhyun's vampire biting the woman he has been watching and turning her too. Its parent EP sold more than 890,000 copies on its first day.

Billboard has called Baekhyun a 'standout' example of which male voice type, his range as an Exo main vocalist?

Tenor is how critics class Baekhyun's voice, which Refinery29 called 'soaring'. He, Chen and D.O. are Exo's three main vocalists.

What did Baekhyun sing before President Moon Jae-in at the opening of the 132nd IOC Session in February 2018?

The national anthem was his solo duty days before the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics began, and Exo went on to perform at the Games' closing ceremony.

Baekhyun's 2024 solo Asia tour, launched in Seoul, shares its name with which rare hexagonal form of diamond?

Lonsdaleite forms when graphite-bearing meteorites strike the Earth, and is named after the crystallographer Kathleen Lonsdale. The tour's encore shows added '[dot]' to the title.

Baekhyun, Chen and Chanyeol each wrote lyrics for which reggae-tinged 2017 Exo single from the album The War?

Ko Ko Bop took its title from a nonsense phrase a co-writer sang while sketching melodies. The three members wrote separately, and the lines that fitted best were combined.

Baekhyun fronted a Jungwon High School band called Honsusangtae, a Korean name that translates as which medical term?

Coma is the literal meaning of the band's name, and Baekhyun was its lead singer when it won a local music festival.

Kim Hyun-woo of the rock band DickPunks gave the young Baekhyun lessons in which instrument?

Piano is central to DickPunks, who formed without a guitarist because Kim, their keyboard player, wanted a piano-driven band.

An SM Entertainment agent spotted the teenage Baekhyun while he was studying for entrance exams to which college?

Seoul Institute of the Arts lost a likely applicant: Baekhyun joined SM in 2011 through its casting system and debuted with Exo about a year later.

Which nickname has been attached to Baekhyun, an Exo main vocalist who also acts, hosts and performs in musicals?

Genius Idol is the label Baekhyun carried into a solo career in which his EPs repeatedly sold more than a million copies.

Which debut single did Baekhyun and SuperM release in October 2019 with a video shot in Dubai and the UAE desert?

Jopping is a blend of jumping and popping, and the EP it led made SuperM the first Asian act to top the US Billboard 200 with a debut release.

Which singer-songwriter featured Baekhyun on 'When Dawn Comes Again' and later produced his EP Essence of Reverie?

Colde has a writing credit on all seven tracks of the 2025 EP, on which Baekhyun co-wrote lyrics too. He had earlier written two songs for Hello, World.

With which streetwear label did Baekhyun launch a unisex line in July 2018, branded with his initials BBH?

Privé made Baekhyun co-creative director of the line, and he told Forbes he wanted its clothes to encourage people to be fearless.

Which soundtrack song did Baekhyun, Chen and Xiumin record for his 2016 drama debut, weeks before launching as a trio?

For You came out in August 2016, and fans guessed from it that the three singers would become Exo's first sub-unit. The trio was confirmed that October.