{"id":538801,"date":"2026-07-08T07:09:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T07:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/538801\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T07:09:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T07:09:12","slug":"winwin-to-leave-sm-entertainment-end-all-nct-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/538801\/","title":{"rendered":"Winwin to leave SM Entertainment, end all NCT activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>       <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/news-p.v1.20260708.94b854a0a3e24ff98780eedd3dc17aab_P1.png\" alt=\"Winwin (Instagram @wwiinn_7)\"\/>     Winwin (Instagram @wwiinn_7)  <\/p>\n<p>Winwin of NCT will part ways with SM Entertainment and end all activities with the group, the agency announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released through the global fan community Weverse, SM Entertainment said it had mutually agreed with the artist to terminate his exclusive contract, effective Thursday, following extensive discussions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We would like to express our gratitude to Winwin, who has been with the company for more than 10 years since his trainee days,&#8221; the agency said. &#8220;We will support him as he embarks on a new journey.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Winwin is the third member to leave NCT in 2026, following the departures of Mark and Lucas in April. Ten also left SM Entertainment that month but remains a member of NCT and continues his group activities.<\/p>\n<p>Winwin debuted as a member of NCT 127 in 2016 before joining the China-based unit WayV in 2019, where he primarily conducted his group activities. In recent years, he has focused on activities in China, including acting and solo projects.<\/p>\n<p>lee.jungjoo@heraldcorp.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Winwin (Instagram @wwiinn_7) Winwin of NCT will part ways with SM Entertainment and end all activities with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-538801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}