Mark

Mark (마크, born Lee Min-hyung / 이민형 on August 2, 1999 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian-Korean rapper, singer, and songwriter who spent a decade as one of the most central figures in NCT. He was there at the start, debuting with NCT U on April 9, 2016 with "The 7th Sense", and became a fixed member of both NCT 127 and NCT Dream simultaneously, a distinction few members ever held. He joined SM Entertainment in 2012 after clearing the SM Global Audition in Vancouver.

The 10-year run produced a catalog that spans NCT's full commercial arc: from NCT Dream's teenage-coded debut energy through the arena-era dominance of NCT 127, to the sprawling group experiments of NCT 2020 Resonance and the supergroup SuperM with Capitol Records. Mark was the through-line on all of it, credited as a songwriter across dozens of tracks. He graduated from NCT Dream in 2018 under the group's original age-out model, then rejoined when SM scrapped the system in 2020.

His solo pivot came in full on April 7, 2025 with The Firstfruit, a 13-track debut album built around four cities: Toronto, New York, Vancouver, and Seoul. Lead single "1999" went straight to fans; the album shipped 544,470 copies in its first week on Hanteo, setting the record for highest first-week sales by an SM soloist debut. Listening sessions in Seoul, Tokyo, Shanghai, and Bangkok made the release feel less like a side project and more like a declaration of intent. On April 8, 2026, his exclusive contract with SM Entertainment concluded and he departed NCT, NCT 127, and NCT Dream. His next chapter, under a new label or independently, remains unannounced.