NCT 2021 is the third year-based project of South Korean boy group NCT, following NCT 2018 and NCT 2020. The project’s participants consist of most of the members that have debuted under NCT as of 2021. For the first time, NCT’s yearly lineup didn’t add any new members and instead excluded two members; even though NCT is comprised of 23 members, only 21 are participating in this project—member Winwin is busy preparing his acting debut in China and Lucas temporarily halted his activities with NCT in August of the same year due to a controversy.
NCT 2021 is featured as a sub-unit in NCT’s third full-length album Universe with the album’s second title-track “Beautiful,” released on December 14, 2021.
The members of NCT 2021 are:
Taeil
Johnny
Taeyong
Yuta
Kun
Doyoung
Ten
Jaehyun
Jungwoo
Mark
Xiaojun
Hendery
Renjun
Jeno
Haechan
Jaemin
Yangyang
Shotaro
Sungchan
Chenle
Jisung