{"id":171149,"date":"2026-07-08T06:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T13:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=171149"},"modified":"2026-07-08T06:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T13:30:11","slug":"ncts-winwin-departs-from-sm-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/ncts-winwin-departs-from-sm-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"NCT&#8217;s Winwin departs from SM Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another surprising moment amid<strong> NCT<\/strong>\u2019s 10th anniversary has hit fans out of nowhere. NCT\u2019s Winwin will be leaving both his music agency, SM Entertainment, and the group, halting the group activities and leaving fans wondering what will happen next.<\/p>\n<p>On July 8, <strong>SM Entertainment officially announced through NCT&#8217;s official Weverse channel that Winwin&#8217;s exclusive contract will conclude on July 9, 2026<\/strong>. Fans are completely heartbroken as the music agency has announced that the decision was reached after extensive discussions with the artist.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WINWIN Weibo &amp; Instagram Update<\/p>\n<p>Hello everyone, I&#39;m WINWIN, Dong Sicheng.<\/p>\n<p>From 2016 to 2026, ten years have passed. I wanted to sincerely write these words as a proper reflection on the past decade of my life.<\/p>\n<p>Over these ten years, I went from being a trainee to a member of\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RwbPc6ffvl\">pic.twitter.com\/RwbPc6ffvl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; WayV Airlines \u2708\ufe0e\u2744\ufe0f (@WayV_Airlines) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WayV_Airlines\/status\/2074748083410542597?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 8, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>&#8220;Winwin will conclude all NCT activities. <strong>We thank<\/strong> Winwin, who has been with us for over 10 years since his trainee days, and we will cheer for his future as he embarks on a new journey.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p>It is well known that the idol has been actively pursuing an acting career in China, which might be the reason for this surprising decision. Recently, Mark and Ten&#8217;s contracts also concluded, making <strong>big changes<\/strong> to the boy band\u2019s dynamics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another surprising moment amid NCT\u2019s 10th anniversary has hit fans out of nowhere. NCT\u2019s Winwin will be leaving both his music agency, SM Entertainment, and the group, halting the group activities and leaving fans wondering what will happen next. On July 8, SM Entertainment officially announced through NCT&#8217;s official Weverse channel that Winwin&#8217;s exclusive contract [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3102,"featured_media":171150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2264,16],"tags":[938],"class_list":["post-171149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-entertainment","category-kpop","tag-nct"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171152,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171149\/revisions\/171152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}