{"id":361645,"date":"2026-04-03T08:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T08:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/361645\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T08:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T08:31:09","slug":"mark-leaves-sm-entertainment-after-10-years-with-nct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/361645\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark leaves SM Entertainment after 10 years with NCT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/e210c3e1-b1cd-42d3-a310-c9e2ca3eee0e.png\" style=\"height: auto; aspect-ratio: 1232 \/ 1260; width: 100%\" alt=\"NCT member Mark Lee \/ Courtesy of SM Entertainment\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>NCT member Mark Lee \/ Courtesy of SM Entertainment<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Mark of K-pop boy band NCT will terminate his contract with SM Entertainment and leave the group, the agency said Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The decision, effective next Wednesday, was made &#8220;after sufficient and deep discussions with Mark for a long time,&#8221; the company said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The artist made his debut in 2016 as part of NCT and has actively performed across the group&#8217;s sub-units, including NCT 127 and NCT Dream.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">In April last year, he also made his mark as a solo artist with his album &#8220;The Firstfruit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">&#8220;Mark has been a remarkable artist over the last 10 years, demonstrating outstanding abilities both as a group member and as a solo artist,&#8221; SM said, adding it wishes the artist well on his new journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NCT member Mark Lee \/ Courtesy of SM Entertainment Mark of K-pop boy band NCT will terminate his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-361645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}