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Profile: Kai

Birth Name : Kim Jong-in (김종인) 金钟仁 (jīn zhōng rén)

Stage Name : KAI (카이)

Nickname : Kkamjong

Super Power (Badge) : Teleportation

Place of birth : Seoul Special City 

Date of Birth : 14th January 1994

Horoscope : Capricorn

Nationality : Korean

Position : Main Dancer, Vocalist, Rapper, Face of The Group 

School : Seoul Arts High School

Position : Lead Dancer, Rapper, Vocalist, Visual

Family : Father, Mother 2 Elder Sisters

Height : 182 cm

Blood Type : A

Specialties : Ballet, Popping, Rocking, Hip-Hop, Jazz

Hobby : Reading book, listening music, and dancing

Favorite Music : R&B and Hip Hop

Favorite Food : Fried Chicken

Favorite Color : Red, Black, and Sky Blue

Favorite Number : 1

Favorite Movie : Pirates of The Caribbean

Kim Jong-in (김종인) or his stage name is Kai (카이) is member South Korean boyband EXO-K, EXO Korean Subgroup. In EXO-K, Kai become lead dancer. He was cast into S.M. Entertainment after winning in the company's Youth Best Contest in 2007. Prior to joining S.M. Entertainment, Kai was trained in ballet and jazz dance. In 2008, Kai made a brief appearance in TVXQ's music video, "HaHaHa Song" along with his bandmate EXO-K's Suho and Chanyeol.  Kai appeared in twelve more trailers in the next three months. He was the first of the twelve members to be formally introduced through teaser trailers. His teaser was released on December 23, 2011. On December 29, 2011 Kai performed with Exo-M's Lu Han, Tao, and Chenon SBS's Gayo Daejun event.

Kai is a friend of SHINee’s Taemin. Kai attended Seoul Arts High School the same school with F(x) Sulli, Miss A Suzy, Jo twins, and several other artists. He had a girlfriend before, but it’s not confirmed now. He had personality warm hearted and he would like to treat everyone well, but when It comes to expressing feelings he gets awkward. Kai Shares room with EXO D.O. He is really good at just about games. Kaihad motto is 'I'd rather bend then break' and he had idel type is someone like Korean Actress, Model, and Singer Han Yeseul.

Everybody knows who Kai is, the first member of EXO to be introduced to the world. But do you know who Kim Jongin is? The sometimes playful, sometimes mature, very shy boy who inspires his fans to reach for the stars like he has? We’re here to show you that Kai is not just a dancing machine, he’s aperson worth loving!

❝Everyone goes through hardships and there are so many difficulties in life. I know at such a young age that life isn't gonna be easy. I might be shaken, and I know that there will be times when I want to give up, but I'm not going to break apart. I'm not going to give up and I'm going to strive on even stronger.❞ 3

Jongin grew up a driven little boy who knew exactly where his passions lay. His parents put him in taekwondo class when he was young but he soon quit when it was clear that he was dragging his feet every time he went to taekwondo class. When he was in his second year of elementary school, his parents took him to a performance of The Nutcracker - and this was the moment that would determine the love of his life: dancing. Inspired by The Nutcracker, Jongin wanted to learn how to dance and so took up dance lessons in ballet and jazz. These were classes he loved taking, unlike the taekwondo ones. He says that “as a child, I always wanted to dance and sing, while everyone else wanted to play.”4 His parents supported his dream and became (and still are) his biggest fans. Amazingly, he was only around seven or eight years old at this time but he was already on the path of life to making his dreams a reality. 

The story goes that, although he loved dancing, Jongin only planned on majoring in ballet and didn’t have a particular wish to become a singer until he saw the legendary idols Shinhwa perform on TV when he was in the sixth grade. Quite taken by Shinhwa’s “performance dance,” so different from ballet and jazz, young and ambitious Jongin decided he’d learn that too. His dream no longer involved only dancing; he now also wanted to become a singer, an idol.

But Jongin wasn’t one to sit around and wait for life to hand him his dreams; he went out and made them happen. That same year he saw Shinhwa, Jongin auditioned at SM Entertainment; the judges were impressed with his talent but rejected him due to his young age.5 They told him to come back in a couple of years if his dream still didn’t change - and of course it didn’t. After training in dance for another two years, with the sole goal of getting into SM Entertainment in mind, Jongin officially became a SM trainee in 2007 through the SM Youth Best competition. As he often likes to proudly mention in interviews, he is the only member in EXO-K who did not become a SM trainee by being casted on the streets by talent scouts. 

While he was training under SM, Jongin initially attended Chungdam High School but then transferred to the School of Performing Arts (SOPA) in Seoul, the private high school famous for counting quite a few other k-pop idols among its alumni.6 Even in high school, he was widely known as an excellent dancer. His SOPA teachers said that “even during his trainee days, his attendance was great. He’s kind, earnest, handsome, and dances really well.”7 He was a pretty cute high school boy, which leaves us wondering why he reportedly didn’t have all his female classmates chasing after him! Maybe he scared them all away with his dorkiness. (But more on his personality later!) 

Having gotten into SM didn’t mean the rest of the road to his dreams was easy, though. He didn’t take anything for granted and continued putting blood, sweat, and tears into his training. During his time as an SM trainee, he picked up hip-hop among other skills, in addition to ballet and jazz. He also had a brief cameo in the music video for TVXQ’s “HaHaHa Song” (he's the one in the red hoodie). After five long years of grueling training day and night, Jongin finally became a member of SM's newest idol group, EXO, making him the EXO member with the second longest trainee period. 

(At the side picture of Baby Kai SOO ADorable Cute :'>)