SM Leisure introduced Taeil‘s departure from NCT on August 28, 2024. The Okay-pop firm made an announcement concerning why Taeil was faraway from the group.
Taeil was a trainee below SM Leisure from 2013 to 2015 and was within the pre-debut group SM Rookies. He debuted in NCT‘s rotational unit NCT U on April 9, 2016, and later debuted within the mounted subunit NCT 127 in July of that yr. 4 members of the 25 member group have left up to now couple of years. Lucas left the group in 2023 after a two-year hiatus, whereas Shotaro and Sungchan left in 2023 to be in SM’s new boy group RIIZE.
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Why was Taeil faraway from NCT?
SM posted on their social media accounts that Taeil was eliminated after he was “accused in a prison case associated to a sexual offense.”
“As we have been assessing the details associated to the matter, we acknowledged the severity of the scenario and decided that Taeil can now not proceed his actions with the workforce (NCT),” the Okay-pop firm wrote of their assertion, by way of Soompi. “After discussing with Taeil, now we have selected his departure from the group.”
SM continued that Taeil is “at the moment cooperating totally with the police investigation”, whereas the corporate is continuous to offer updates because the investigation continues. “We deeply apologise for the priority and misery brought on by our artist.”
Regardless of being faraway from NCT, Korea’s JoongAng Day by day reported that Taeil’s contract with SM Leisure has not been terminated.
Because of the intercourse crime allegations, NCT 127’s members’ schedules have been postponed. The corporate introduced that Mark and Haechan, who’re additionally in NCT DREAM, postponed their fancalls for DREAM( )SCAPE album. Jaehyun’s fancalls for his solo album J have additionally been postponed.
