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K-pop band EXO delights #ClosingCeremony fans while dressed in Colonel Sanders replica outfits #Olympics_EXO

Greg P.
Greg P.  |  9:43 PM on February 25, 2018

Earlier today at the Closing Ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, the hashtag #Olympics_EXO promoting the K-pop boy-band group named EXO went completely bonkers as fans watched their performance:

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And we do mean bonkers. Look at this tweet, for example, which had 80,000+ retweets:

Or this one with 84,000+ retweets for these pics:

This image from far away had 25,000+ retweets:

Now, can anyone explain the replica Colonel Sanders outfits? What’s up with that?

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Once you see it…

https://twitter.com/jdkimji/status/967775062425153538

Apparently the band used to endorse KFC, so these outfits are perfect!

For real:

Here’s a commercial they did for the chicken chain in outfits that are almost exactly like their Olympic ones:

We’re dying:

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