NCT

“	To The World, This is NCT! Hello, we are NCT!	”
—NCT

NCT

Concept photo for "Beautiful"

Names

Also as

Neo Culture Technology

Background

Origin

Seoul, South Korea

Genre(s)

Hip hop, R&B, EDM, teen pop

Years active

2016–present

Label(s)

SM Entertainment

Associations

NCT U
NCT 127
NCT Dream
WayV

Members

Current

Inactive

Fandom

Name

NCTzen

Color(s)

Pearl Neo Champagne

Website
NCT 2020:

SNS
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Related Wikis
NCT Wiki • SMTown Wiki

NCT (short for "Neo Culture Technology") is a boy group under SM Entertainment. The group consists of members divided into multiple sub-units to be based in major cities around the world.

History

Pre-debut

Before any of the members debuted, most were under the SM Entertainments pre-debut team, SMROOKIES, under the name SR14B (SMROOKIES 2014 Boys). When SMROOKIES was announced in December 2013, they announced members Taeyong and Jeno, with Jaehyun, Mark, Jisung, Johnny, Ten, and Yuta on the same month days later. In April 2014, Haechan and Jaemin were announced. In July 2014, they released a video of Taeyong's rapping skills on SMTown's YouTube channel. The next month, they released a video of Johnny, Taeyong, and another rookie named Hansol of a dance focus video titled “Super Moon” displaying their dance skills. In January 2015, Doyoung was announced as part of SMROOKIES - as him and Jaehyun was introduced as the new MCs on MBC Music Champion. In October 2015, Taeil was introduced. A few months later in January 2016, Winwin was introduced.

2016: NCT U, NCT 127 and NCT Dream debuts

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On January 27, the group was announced by SM Entertainment‘s founder, Lee Soo Man, at SM’s Coex Artium during “SMTown: New Culture Technology 2016" press conference. It was announced that there would be different teams that would debut based in different countries around the world. There would be various collaborations and units formed between the different groups, allowing for movement of members and new recruits into the groups. There also wouldn't be a set member number for these groups. It was speculated that there would be 40 members debuting under NCT.

On April 4, the first sub-unit was announced to be NCT U with pictures announcing members Mark and Jaehyun - later adding members Taeil, Taeyong, Doyoung, and Ten. NCT U was described as the main group of NCT. It was announced that there would be two NCT U groups, each having different member organization. On April 9, they released the songs “The 7th Sense” and "Without You" as digital singles, and made their debut on music program Music Bank four days later.

On July 1, SM announced the second sub-unit would be called NCT 127, with the number 127 referring to the longitude of Seoul.^[1] They debuted on July 7 on M Countdown with their debut stage for "Firetruck", the title track from first mini album, NCT #127, which was released on the 10th. The unit initially consisted of seven members: Taeil, Taeyong, Yuta, Jaehyun, Winwin, Mark, and Haechan.

On August 18, SM announced that NCT's third sub-unit would be NCT Dream. The unit debuted with seven members: Mark, Renjun, Jeno, Haechan, Jaemin, Chenle and Jisung. Their first single, "Chewing Gum", was released on August 24, and the group had their debut performance on M Countdown the next day.

On December 27, NCT 127 announced they would be making a comeback with two new members, Johnny and NCT U's Doyoung.

2018: New members and NCT 2018 project

On January 31, SM officially announced new members Kun, Jungwoo, and Lucas via a video titled "NCT 2018 Yearbook #1".^[2]

On February 6, it was announced that all 18 members would be taking part of the comeback project called NCT 2018.^[3] Jungwoo and Lucas officially debuted under the unit NCT U with the released of the music video for "Boss" on February 19.^[4] The music videos for "Baby Don't Stop" and "Go" were released on February 26 and March 5, respectively.

On March 14, NCT's first full-length album NCT 2018 Empathy was released and featured songs from the various units, as well as the full group track "Black on Black".

On September 3, SM confirmed that Mark would be graduating from NCT Dream after promotions for their second EP wrapped up.

On October 12, NCT 127 released their first full-length album with the addition of NCT U's Jungwoo as a new member. Starting on November 23, Winwin did not participate in comeback activities with NCT 127 for the repackaged edition of the album in order to prepare for his debut with NCT's fourth sub-unit.

2019: WayV debuts

On December 31, 2018, it was announced that Kun, Ten, Winwin, Lucas, Xiao Jun, Hendery, and Yang Yang would be members of NCT's Chinese sub-unit, WayV.^[5] The unit debuted on January 17, 2019 with the digital EP The Vision.

2020: NCT 2020 project and new members

On April 14, SM Entertainment announced that, following the release of NCT Dream's Reload on April 29, the unit would no longer keep a graduation system and have an activity format similar to NCT U with graduated member Mark returning.

On September 15, Star News reported that NCT was planning to release a new album in October as part of their NCT 2020 project. SM confirmed the group was preparing an album and would make an announcement once their exact schedule is confirmed.^[6]^[7]

At midnight on September 21, NCT released two teaser videos titled "NCT 2020 : RESONANCE Pt. 1" and "INTERLUDE : RESONANCE", which introduced their new logo and highlighted the sub-units past releases in a montage.^[8] Later that same day, SM revealed the album, NCT Resonance Pt. 1, would be released on October 12 and would include all 23 members including 21 existing members from NCT 127, NCT Dream, and WayV and two new members, Shotaro and Sungchan.^[9]

2021: NCT 2021 project

On November 13, NCT released a teaser for their third full-length album Universe, set to be released on December 14.^[10]

Members

Member	Position(s)	Years active
Taeil (태일)	Vocalist, Rapper *	2016–present
Johnny (쟈니)	Dancer, Rapper, Vocalist *	2017–present
Taeyong (태용)	Leader, Rapper, Dancer, Vocalist, Center, Visual *	2016–present
Yuta (유타)	Dancer, Vocalist, Rapper *	2016–present
Kun (쿤)	Leader (WayV), Vocalist, Rapper *	2018–present
Doyoung (도영)	Vocalist, Rapper *	2016–present
Ten (텐)	Dancer, Vocalist, Rapper *	2016–present
Jaehyun (재현)	Vocalist, Dancer, Rapper, Visual *	2016–present
Jungwoo (정우)	Vocalist, Dancer, Rapper *	2018–present
Mark (마크)	Rapper, Dancer, Vocalist *	2016–present
Xiao Jun (샤오쥔)	Vocalist, Rapper *	2019–present
Hendery (헨더리)	Dancer, Rapper, Vocalist, Visual *	2019–present
Renjun (런쥔)	Vocalist, Dancer *	2016–present
Jeno (제노)	Dancer, Rapper, Vocalist, Visual *	2016–present
Haechan (해찬)	Vocalist, Dancer, Rapper *	2016–present
Jaemin (재민)	Rapper, Dancer, Vocalist, Visual *	2016–present
Yang Yang (양양)	Rapper, Dancer, Vocalist *	2019–present
Shotaro (쇼타로)	Dancer, Rapper*	2020–present
Sungchan (성찬)	Rapper *	2020–present
Chenle (천러)	Vocalist *	2016–present
Jisung (지성)	Dancer, Vocalist, Rapper, Maknae *	2016–present
Inactive
Winwin (윈윈)	Dancer, Vocalist, Rapper, Visual *	2016–present
Lucas (루카스)	Rapper, Vocalist, Visual*	2018–present
Pre-debut
Ji Hansol (지한솔)	N/A	2016-2017

*For each member's positions in a specific sub-unit, please check that specific unit's page, as one member may be a main dancer in one unit, but a lead dancer in another.

Sub-units

Table

Name	NCT U	NCT 127	NCT Dream	WayV
Taeil	Yes	Yes
Johnny	Yes	Yes
Taeyong	Yes	Yes
Yuta	Yes	Yes
Kun	Yes			Yes
Doyoung	Yes	Yes
Ten	Yes			Yes
Jaehyun	Yes	Yes
Winwin	Yes	Yes		Yes
Jungwoo	Yes	Yes
Lucas	Yes			Yes
Mark	Yes	Yes	Yes
Xiao Jun	Yes			Yes
Hendery	Yes			Yes
Renjun	Yes		Yes
Jeno	Yes		Yes
Haechan	Yes	Yes	Yes
Jaemin	Yes		Yes
Yang Yang	Yes			Yes
Shotaro	Yes
Sungchan	Yes
Chenle	Yes		Yes
Jisung	Yes		Yes