{"id":2360487,"date":"2026-04-06T07:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T07:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2360487"},"modified":"2026-04-06T07:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T07:55:07","slug":"ncts-ten-to-leave-sm-entertainment-but-will-remain-in-nct-and-wayv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/ncts-ten-to-leave-sm-entertainment-but-will-remain-in-nct-and-wayv\/","title":{"rendered":"NCT\u2019s Ten to leave SM Entertainment but will remain in NCT and WayV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>He wrote in English, \u201cAs I approach my 10th anniversary, I\u2019ve found myself wanting to take on new challenges, explore new possibilities, and discover new versions of myself.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>He shared that the decision came \u201cafter a lot of thought and many heartfelt discussions with the members and the staff at SM\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>As he thanked the label, his fellow members and fans for their support on his journey, he affirmed that he \u201cwill continue [his] activities as Ten of NCT and WayV\u201d while he prepares to showcase \u201cnew sides of \u2018Ten\u2019 and to evolve in new ways as a solo artiste in this next chapter\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>Ten, whose real name is Chittaphon Leechaiyapornkul, debuted in 2016 as a member of NCT U, a sub-unit of NCT, as the first Thai artiste to debut under the label. He is also a member of WayV, the China-based sub-unit of the K-pop group that debuted in 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>On Apr 3, SM Entertainment announced that <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cnalifestyle.channelnewsasia.com\/entertainment\/nct-mark-leaving-group-sm-entertainment-agency-581061\"><span>NCT&#8217;s Mark will leave both the K-pop group and the label<\/span><\/a><span>, sending shockwaves across the fandom and K-pop community.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\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 cnalifestyle.channelnewsasia.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He wrote in English, \u201cAs I approach my 10th anniversary, I\u2019ve found myself wanting to take on new challenges, explore new possibilities, and discover new versions of myself.\u201d He shared that the decision came \u201cafter a lot of thought and many heartfelt discussions with the members and the staff at SM\u201d. As he thanked the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2360488,"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":[22367,21800,306168],"class_list":["post-2360487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-celebrity","tag-music","tag-south-korea"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/NCTs-Ten-to-leave-SM-Entertainment-but-will-remain-in.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360487","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=2360487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2360489,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360487\/revisions\/2360489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2360488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2360487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2360487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2360487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}