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.
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