NCT is a South Korean boy band formed by SM Entertainment in 2016. Currently, NCT has 23 permanent members which are divided into four sub-units, namely NCT U, NCT 127, NCT Dream, and WAY V.
All NCT members come from many countries, such as South Korea, America, Japan, Thailand, and China.
The following is NCT's career journey, starting from trainees until now, which celebrities.id have summarized from various sources, Sunday (10/4/2022).
NCT's career journey from debut to now.
1. SM Rookies
While still a trainee, some of the NCT members were Jeno. Jaemin, Jisung, Jaehyun, Taeyong, Mark, Ten, Johny, Yuta, Haechan, Doyoung, Taeil, Kun, and Winwin joined as a pre-debut team called SM Rookies.
SM Rookies is a team formed by SM Entertainment to reveal trainees who are considered worthy to debut. Not just introducing them to the public, the trainees were also made a variety show titled 'The Mickey Mouse Club.' In fact, SM Rookeis members also had the opportunity to appear and participate in the SM Town concert.
2. Sub-Unit Debut
In 2016, NCT officially debuted and was introduced to the public for the first time with a sub-unit system. The first sub-unit to debut was NCT U with the songs 'The 7th Sense' and 'Without You'.
The song 'The 7th Sense' is sung by Jaehyun, Mark, Ten, Taeyong, and Doyoung. While the song 'Without You' is sung by Taeil, Doyoung, and Jaehyun.
After a few months, NCT debuted a new sub-unit with the name NCT 127 consisting of 7 members, Taeil, Taeyong, Yuta, Jaehyun, Winwin, Mark, and Haechan by releasing the single 'Firetruck'.
After that, NCT also debuted its third sub-unit under the name NCT Dream which consists of 7 members namely Mark, Haechan, Renjun, Jeno, Jaemin, Chenle, and Jisung with the song 'Chewing Gum'.
3. Johnny's debut
A year after their debut, NCT announced that it would add one member, namely Johnny. At that time, Johnny was chosen to be a member of the sub-unit NCT 127.
It turns out that not only Johnny was chosen as a new member of NCT 127, Doyoung was also selected as a new member, previously Doyoung was a member of the sub-unit NCT U.
After having two new members, NCT 127 officially made a comeback by releasing a mini album titled 'LIMITLESS' on January 6, 2017 for digital and January 9, 2017 for physical albums.
4. NCT 2018
In 2018, NCT announced that it would release a song with a full member lineup. At that time NCT already had 18 members namely Taeyong, Mark, Jaehyun, Doyoung, Ten, Taeil, Yuta, Winwin, Haechan, Johny, Jeno, Jaemin, Renjun, Chenle, Jisung, Lucas, Jungwo, and Kun.
The notification caused an uproar for netizens, because NCT was considered not too successful and was considered too many members. Thus, many netizens have a negative and pessimistic view of the group.
5. Debut Way V
NCT debuted a new sub-unit operating in China in 2019 under the name WayV. The sub unit also consists of members from China, namely Kun, Lucas, Hendery, Yangyang, Ten, Winwin, and Xiaojun.
The sub-unit officially debuted on January 17, 2019 by releasing an album titled 'The Vision'. Way V's debut was eagerly awaited and received rave reviews from Chinese netizens. Thanks to that, Way V became famous in China and even Way V successfully held his first concert.
6. NCT 2020
In 2020, NCT once again announced that it would release an album with a full lineup of members. Unlike the previous year, which consisted of 19 personnel, the 2020 NCT Comebank had a formation of 23 members. Uniquely, the 23 members will certainly participate in two NCT albums titled 'NCT Resonance Pt.1' and 'NCT Resonance Pt 2'.
Unlike the announcement of the full member's debut, NCT's comeback in 2020 was apparently warmly welcomed by netizens both in South Korea and international fans. Evidently, the albums 'NCT Resonance Pt.1' and 'NCT Resonance Pt.2' have sold more than one million units as of November 2020.
7. NCT 2021
After a year, NCT decided to return by releasing an album titled 'Universe'. However, on the comeback, two members from China, Winwin and Lucas could not participate.
Lucas could not participate because some time ago he was accused of having a romantic relationship with several fans at the same time. Meanwhile, Winwin could not participate due to his busy schedule in China.
Well, that's NCT's career journey from trainees to the present, which we have summarized from various sources. It is known that NCT continues to earn domestic and foreign awards, and currently fans, namely NCTzen and NCT members, are celebrating their 6th birthday on Saturday (9/4/2022). /celebrties.id
