#china unit

[fandom-queen-aka-trash]

WAYV

Everyone: "Way-Vee"

My dumbass: "wave"

[youseeititslegend]

REGULAR HUH

[dojaemins]

YANGYANG’S SMILE IS SO PRECIOUS

[ncttheories]

- It’s following official NCT accounts

- 116 is the latitude of Bejing, China (like 127 is the latitude for Seoul)

- We knew China unit was happening, thanks to Kun and Yukhei spoiling it

- SM announced there would be a unit expansion into another country soon

Keep an eye on it, I guess, but I feel like we’ve been through this before.

[youseeititslegend]

"We're the new heroes"

[ncttheories]

Kun Theory

A lot of people are mad about the prospect of Kun not debuting with whatever unit is coming next, especially when Jungwoo and Yukhei appear to be involved. However, even though all three of us love Kun (Admin Beth especially) and want him to debut as fast as possible, we don’t think that the fact he isn’t involved is necessarily a bad thing.

We’re using this tweet as nothing more than a translation - the Naver article that was linked reports everything that is said, so we know that we are not dealing with rumours at this point.

We now know that they are definitely filming a music video and with the lineup we worked out from airport previews, that’s almost definitely a new unit. This unit will be the one which starts off the ‘new, large project which has been in preparation since last year’.

NCT has always been meant to be a global group, but different obstacles throughout 2016 and 2017 prevented that - notably, politics and international relations. However, the globalisation of NCT is a big project which has been in preparation for ages.

If Kun is not in this unit, it’s likely he is being saved for another one. Notably, a China unit.

We have called this one a LOT before, and we’ve never been right. But here, we think we might be. It’s a big project in the works since last year, whereas a Chinese unit would be a huge project that has been planned since their debut. SM themselves made a statement saying that China Unit was planned to debut much, much sooner than this but political issues put a stop to this. Therefore, it has DEFINITELY been planned since last year.

Also, note the use of the word “projects” - there’s more than one. Whilst the big project is one single concept, the projects taking place throughout 2018 are multiple, almost like multiple units.

Our theory is that this new unit, filming in Ukraine, is going to be the one to finally start the globalisation aspect of NCT. It might be a Korea unit (not 127, which is a Seoul unit - there’s a difference, apparently) which will later be followed up by a China unit, and other units after through this big project.

There are already rumours for multiple NCT promotions throughout 2018, some of which overlap. The only possible way an overlap can happen is if they are promoting in two different countries, or more.

Therefore, although people are complaining about Kun not debuting now, or even the lack of promotion for members like Yuta, or Johnny, or Taeil, we can probably assume that this is because they’ll have other promotions later in the year. If we’re right, and SM wants to be smart, this is the time that NCT grows into what it was always planned to be.

[ncttheories]

do you think there will be a possible china unit soon because now the ban is lifted? i feel like we should've gotten it late last year, but then the ban happened and it got ugly.

Woo, let’s delve into the world of Chinese politics!

The ban itself was never officially lifted, it was just relaxed over time. SM have said on several occasions that China Unit was supposed to debut in 2016 so we know that it had to be affected by the ban to be delayed to the extent that it has been. It might also explain why NCT’s schedule has become “127-Dream-127-Dream” rather than expanding into more units, just because they can’t expand in the way they want to.

The ban may start getting stronger again because pretty serious political things are happening and it’s all a bit unpredictable, otherwise we would say that a China unit or a Dream China debut is happening next.

However - there’s always a however with these things.

T-Ara were allowed to promote in China throughout the ban, it depends on how the Chinese government and public view you. SM have ties to Chinese companies, Chinese training centres and plenty of Chinese members and trainees. Looking at the ban, I think it might be possible to kind of loop-hole it if the China unit consists of only Chinese members. 

EXO-M obviously had members who weren’t Chinese, so it wouldn’t have worked for them. But if NCT China is composed of WinWin, Kun, Renjun, Chenle and any other Chinese trainees they have (not sure how it would work with Yukhei because he’s half Thai), I think it would be possible for them to promote in China if the ban stays relaxed. Chinese members (Lay, Jackson, Victoria, etc) can promote in China even if their group can’t, so a Chinese unit of all Chinese members may fall into that kind of category.

Does it mean a China unit is happening? Who the hell knows, it’s NCT, I don’t even think SM knows what they’re doing at this point.

- Beth

[thehistorian]

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