On January 11 KST, EXO member and solo artist D.O. (Doh Kyung Soo)'s official character pop-up store opened on the first floor of Jamsil Lotte World Mall.
On this day, many fans showed up to meet the two official characters designed by D.O, Zzirang-E and Charles.
To their surprise, fans who showed up expecting to purchase Zzirang-E and Charles goods found that the pop-up stocked D.O's official solo light stick.
Priced at 45,000 KRW, the light stick quickly garnered attention for its design. One netizen compared it to a blender, while others called it a capsule pill.
Many netizens weighed in on whether or not they would buy D.O's light stick, commenting,
"This might be the worst light stick I've even seen."
"It's ugly..."
"It looks like no one bothered to put much thought into it."
"It's too bad that he can't use D.O. when he's doing solo promotions. D.O. would have looked much nicer than Doh Kyung Soo. The full name spelling just doesn't look good."
"It looks really one of those single-use ones."
"This isn't even a bad design, it's no design."
"I don't think people will buy something that looks like that when they can just go on using the EXO light stick..."
"Did they even try..?"
"It's too expensive for something that they obviously put no thought into."
"It looks like the Ninja blender I keep seeing ads for lol."
"It honestly reflects D.O's personality so well tho."
"If anything, it definitely looks like Doh Kyung Soo."
Meanwhile, D.O. has now become the first member of EXO to release his official solo light stick.