Shortly after Chen announced on Thursday that he would marriage, Japan quickly reported the news, including Kyodo News (Kyungdo News).
Kyodo News said, "Chen announced that she marriages with ordinary women." According to Korean media reports, the other woman is in pregnancy. The marriage ceremony will be held privately," he said.
Chen also told the fan club that "I have a GFriend who wants to spend my whole life together; blessings have come," he indirectly admitted to GFriend's pregnancy.
Japan magazine 'Women's Self' reported on the Internet version and said that the internet is getting hotter due to the announcement of the marriage of top idol. Chen's marriage rose to the top and second place in the real-time search query rankings of Korea's largest search portal site, and 14 of the top 20 trends in the social media Twitter Inc. Korea region are related to Chen.
Local media such as Sanspo.com and Nikkan Sports, which are the Internet versions of Japan Sankei Sports, are reporting news about Chen.
As Chen is a member of SM's unit 'EXO-M' aimed at the China market, his marriage news is also of great interest in China. Chen-related keywords are at the top of the Weibo real-time search term, China version Twitter Inc. Reflecting the global craze of K-pop, Western foreign media such as the Metro UK version are also reporting on it.
There are also reports of Chen in Korea. Chen has already posted a marriage ceremony at the cathedral on the 13th, and the preliminary bride has been quoted by fans as saying that the pregnancy is the 7th month. There is a lot of news about Chen and other issues, such as discussing the possibility of Chen serving as a full-time reserve.
EXO, which Chen belongs to, is a representative group of Hallyu. It debuted in 2012 and became a top group with hits such as "Run". Chen also became a "sound source chart strongman" in parallel with his solo career, and he also won the music and music charts with his solo album "April, and Flower" and "To You Loved".