NCT (group)

NCT is a South Korean boy group formed by SM Entertainment. Their name stands for the Hallyu localization project Neo Culture Technology. The group consists of 23 members ranging from their late-teens to mid-twenties and participating in a total of four different sub-units.

About NCT (group) in brief

Summary NCT (group)NCT is a South Korean boy group formed by SM Entertainment. Their name stands for the Hallyu localization project Neo Culture Technology. The group consists of 23 members ranging from their late-teens to mid-twenties and participating in a total of four different sub-units. In January 2016, SM Entertainment founder Lee Soo-man delivered a presentation at the SM Coex Artium titled \”SMTOWN: New Culture Technology 2016\”. The group as a whole is SM Entertainment’s first idol group in almost two years since the debut of fellow labelmate Red Velvet in August 2014. They are the first boy group since Exo in 2012 to debut in South Korean–Chinese boy group Exo. They have since appeared in three seasons of their reality series NCT Life, featuring other trainees from SM Rookies. Their first overseas localized sub-unit WayV, a seven-member unit based in China, will debut on January 17, 2019 with the single album The Vision. The unit debuted with seven members: Taeil, Taeyong, Yuta, Jaehyun, Winwin, Mark, and Haechan. On July 1, SM announced NCT’s second unit, NCT 127, with the number \”127\” representing the longitude coordinate of Seoul. On August 24, 2016, the group announced that NCT’s third unit would be called NCT Dream.

Their single, Chewing Gum, was released on August 24 and had their debut performance on M Countdown. Their debut EP NCT #127 was released digitally on July 10 on July 11 and physically on July 29, the unit released the single SM Feeling for the Coca-Cola project SM Station in collaboration with Coca- Cola Station. They had their first live performance in China at the 16th Music Feng Yun Bang Awards on April 15, the same day as the group made their debut in Korea on Music Bank. The same day, they had their performance on television shows like Music Bank, Champion Inkigayo, and M Countdown and had the performance on the music program M Countdown, performing debut single \”Fire Truck\” and once again on July 7, 2016. On April 9,2016, NCT U made their first broadcast appearance with NCT On Air on V Live, hosted by Super Junior’s Kim Hee-chul. It was followed by the Seoul-based unit NCT 127 on July7, 2016 with their eponymous extended play and later the then-teenage only unit NCT Dream on July 24,2016 with the digital single \”Chewing Gum\”. The group then introduced their first overseas localization sub- unit WayV in January 2019.