{"id":2389541,"date":"2026-04-26T03:42:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T03:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2389541"},"modified":"2026-04-26T03:42:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T03:42:31","slug":"former-nct-member-lucas-officially-ends-contract-with-sm-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/former-nct-member-lucas-officially-ends-contract-with-sm-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NCT member Lucas officially ends contract with SM Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">SEOUL &#8211; Lucas, a former member of K-pop boy band NCT, has ended his exclusive contract with SM Entertainment, the agency announced on April 24.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In a statement released via global fan community Weverse, the South Korean entertainment agency said its contract with the 27-year-old Hong Kong artiste \u201cofficially concluded as of April 24\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">\u201cWe sincerely thank fans for the great love and support they have shown Lucas,\u201d the company said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">\u201cWe will cherish the time we have shared with Lucas, from his trainee days to his various activities following his debut, and we will support his new endeavours going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Lucas debuted in 2018 as a member of NCT and their Chinese sub-unit WayV. The rapper-singer later <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/life\/entertainment\/ncts-lucas-wong-on-hiatus-after-being-accused-of-taking-advantage-of-female-fans?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"gap-x-04 items-center inline text-primary-60 select-auto\" aria-label=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"custom-link\"><span class=\"font-body-baseline-regular inline\" data-testid=\"paragraph-test-id\">suspended activities under NCT<\/span><\/a> after being embroiled in a scandal involving allegations of gaslighting, cheating and manipulative behaviour toward multiple women who claimed to be his ex-girlfriends, eventually announcing his departure from the groups in May 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Since then, he has pursued a solo career, releasing the EP Renegade in April 2024. THE KOREA HERALD\/ ASIA NEWS NETWORK<\/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 www.straitstimes.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEOUL &#8211; Lucas, a former member of K-pop boy band NCT, has ended his exclusive contract with SM Entertainment, the agency announced on April 24. In a statement released via global fan community Weverse, the South Korean entertainment agency said its contract with the 27-year-old Hong Kong artiste \u201cofficially concluded as of April 24\u201d. \u201cWe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2389542,"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-2389541","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\/Former-NCT-member-Lucas-officially-ends-contract-with-SM-Entertainment.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389541","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=2389541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2389543,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389541\/revisions\/2389543"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2389542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2389541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2389541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2389541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}