{"id":2360403,"date":"2026-04-06T06:14:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T06:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2360403"},"modified":"2026-04-06T06:14:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T06:14:54","slug":"singer-ten-leaving-sm-entertainment-but-staying-with-groups-nct-and-wayv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/singer-ten-leaving-sm-entertainment-but-staying-with-groups-nct-and-wayv\/","title":{"rendered":"Singer Ten leaving SM Entertainment but staying with groups NCT and WayV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article_body\">\n<p>                    <!-- 20240718 &#44592;&#51088;&#48512;&#48516; &#52628;&#44032; --><\/p>\n<div class=\"topArea\">\n<p>\n                            <span class=\"article-publish-date\"><br \/>\n                                Published: 06 Apr. 2026, 14:31<\/span>\n                            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>                    <!--\/\/20240718 &#44592;&#51088;&#48512;&#48516; &#52628;&#44032; end --><\/p>\n<div class=\"article_body_container\">\n<div class=\"ab_photo photo_center \" style=\"width: 820px;\">\n<div class=\"image\">\n  <br \/>\n  <span class=\"mask\"\/>\n <\/div>\n<p class=\"caption\">A concept photo from Ten&#8217;s second EP \u2033Stunner\u2033 (2025) [SM ENTERTAINMENT]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \u00a0<br \/>\n<br \/> Singer Ten will leave SM Entertainment but remain as a member of the NCT and WayV.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ten&#8217;s exclusive contract with SM Entertainment will end on Wednesday, the agency said Monday.\u00a0<br \/>\n<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p> \u00a0<br \/>\n<br \/> \u201cAfter a lengthy discussion with Ten regarding his future activities, we have decided to end his exclusive contract on April 8,\u201d SM Entertainment said in a press release on Monday.\u00a0<br \/>\n<br \/> \u00a0<br \/>\n<br \/> SM Entertainment will continue to communicate with Ten so that he can participate in WayV and NCT&#8217;s future activities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe thank Ten, who has shown outstanding capabilities as a group member and as a solo artist since his debut,\u201d the agency said. \u201cWe will sincerely support his new journey ahead.\u201d\u00a0<br \/>\n<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\n<br \/>Ten debuted in 2016 as a member of NCT U, a subunit of NCT. He is also a member of WayV, an NCT subunit that targets the Chinese market and SuperM.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\n<br \/>SM Entertainment previously announced Friday that its member Mark will leave both the agency and the band on Wednesday.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>BY CHO YONG-JUN [<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/koreajoongangdaily.joins.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection\" class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"beddd6d190c7d1d0d9d4cbd08ffed4d1d1d0d9dfd0d990ddd190d5cc\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>                    <!-- promoted &#49884;&#51089; --><br \/>\n                    <!-- promoted &#45149;--><\/p>\n<p>                    <!-- &#49888;&#44508; &#48708;&#46356;&#50724; &#44305;&#44256; 250813 --><br \/>\n                    <!-- world &#49440;&#51201;&#50857; --><br \/>\n                    <!-- &#49888;&#44508; &#48708;&#46356;&#50724; &#44305;&#44256; &#51333;&#47308; -->\n                <\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/ko_KR\/all.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source koreajoongangdaily.joins.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published: 06 Apr. 2026, 14:31 A concept photo from Ten&#8217;s second EP \u2033Stunner\u2033 (2025) [SM ENTERTAINMENT] \u00a0 Singer Ten will leave SM Entertainment but remain as a member of the NCT and WayV.\u00a0 Ten&#8217;s exclusive contract with SM Entertainment will end on Wednesday, the agency said Monday.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u201cAfter a lengthy discussion with Ten [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2360404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2360403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Singer-Ten-leaving-SM-Entertainment-but-staying-with-groups-NCT.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2360403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2360405,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360403\/revisions\/2360405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2360404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2360403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2360403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2360403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}