40 Fun Facts About NCT Dream

Five future NCT Dream members spent 2015 in a Korean revival of which American children's series?

The Mickey Mouse Club ran on Disney Channel Korea from July to December 2015, with the five trainees singing, dancing and acting in skits as Mouseketeers.

NCT Dream began with a graduation system in which members left upon reaching what milestone?

Legal adulthood meant 20 in Korean age, so leader Mark graduated at the end of 2018, until SM scrapped the rule in 2020 and brought him back.

The video for NCT Dream's 2024 single Smoothie shows a real-life version of which mobile game?

Fruit Ninja, the fruit-slicing game, suits a song named after a blended drink; Smoothie was the lead single of the six-track EP Dream()scape.

At nine, NCT Dream's Chenle became the youngest soloist to sing at the Golden Hall in which city?

Vienna hosted him at its Golden Hall for a Chinese New Year concert in 2011, five years before he signed with SM Entertainment.

A 2023 solo single by NCT Dream's Mark nods to a viral review of his fried eggs by which chef?

Gordon Ramsay rated the eggs on Twitter after Mark cooked them on an MBC reality series, and the self-produced song, Golden Hour, refers to it in its lyrics.

Which children's brand turned NCT Dream into cartoon dinosaurs for a 2021 version of a hit single?

Pinkfong, best known for its version of Baby Shark, drew the members as dinosaurs who crash-land in the Age of Dinosaurs, in Korean and English editions.

Candy, a 2022 winter single by NCT Dream, remade a 1996 hit by which early Korean idol group?

H.O.T. put the original on their 1996 debut album, and Spin magazine later ranked it the greatest K-pop song ever made.

Before music, Jaemin of NCT Dream competed at national level as a child in which winter sport?

Speed skating on the short track came first for him; he swapped the rink for SM Entertainment's training rooms in 2013, aged 13.

In 2022 NCT Dream's Jeno became the first K-pop artist to open a runway at which city's Fashion Week?

New York saw him lead out Peter Do's spring 2023 collection, a line the designer created in partnership with SM Entertainment.

NCT Dream's third studio album, ISTJ, is named after a four-letter type in which personality test?

Myers-Briggs types labelled ISTJ are introverted, sensing, thinking and judging; the title track is sung from the view of an opposite, an ENFP.

NCT Dream debuted on M Countdown in August 2016, average age under 16, with which first single?

Chewing Gum climbed to number 23 on Spotify's Viral 50 chart, performed by seven boys whose average age was 15.6.

NCT Dream debuted in 2016 as the third NCT unit, after NCT U and which Seoul-based group?

NCT 127 debuted in July 2016, seven weeks before the teen unit, and two of its members were placed in both groups.

NCT Dream is a unit of the boy band NCT, whose three-letter name stands for which phrase?

Neo Culture Technology was unveiled by SM's founder in January 2016 as a band with no fixed number of members and teams based in cities around the world.

Which 2021 release, NCT Dream's first studio album, drew more than 1.7 million pre-orders?

Hot Sauce was named Best Album at the 31st Seoul Music Awards, and the video for its title track is set in a taqueria.

NCT Dream's original leader, Mark, joined SM in 2012 after an audition in which Canadian city?

Vancouver staged the SM Global Audition he passed in 2012, which made him the earliest of the seven to join the company.

Which American magazine named every member of NCT Dream among its 25 Most Influential Teens of 2018?

Time listed all seven in 2018, the year Billboard also put the group on its 21 Under 21 list as the only Asian act.

NCT Dream released the 2019 single Fireflies as the first global ambassadors of which organisation?

World Scout Foundation projects in low-income countries received the song's proceeds, and the group performed at the World Scout Jamboree in West Virginia.

NCT Dream sang Trigger the Fever as the official song of which 2017 sporting event in South Korea?

FIFA U-20 World Cup organisers also made the group ambassadors; they sang at the opening ceremony, and England went on to lift the trophy.

In February 2017 NCT Dream took the first music programme win for any NCT unit on which series?

The Show handed over the trophy on its hundredth episode, and Jeno went on to host the programme from 2018 to 2019.

Which 2020 EP, led by the single Ridin', was NCT Dream's final record before Mark returned?

Reload drew over half a million pre-orders, and SM ended the graduation rule once its promotions finished.

Which NCT Dream singer's stage name, chosen by SM founder Lee Soo-man, means to shine bright?

Haechan was born Lee Dong-hyuck and raised between Seoul and Jeju, and joined SM through one of its Saturday open auditions in 2013.

Which NCT Dream member acted in Korean films as a child and danced in Poppin' Hyun Joon's kids crew?

Jisung had parts in films such as Boys, Be Curious and Go, Stop, Murder, and SM scouted him after he appeared on the dance series Dancing 9.

After leaving NCT Dream in 2018, Mark joined which all-star SM group built for the American market?

SuperM, billed as the Avengers of K-pop, put him alongside Taemin of Shinee and five others, and its debut EP arrived in October 2019.

NCT Dream's 2023 single Best Friend Ever was the group's first original single in which language?

Japanese lyrics paid off: the single topped the Oricon weekly chart in its first week, backed by a translated version of Glitch Mode.

NCT Dream teamed up with which English singer for the 2019 single Don't Need Your Love?

HRVY, born Harvey Leigh Cantwell, recorded it with five of the members; a sixth sat out because of duties with another NCT unit.

NCT Dream featured on Up to You, a 2019 song praised for promoting consent, by which boy band?

PrettyMuch put the song on INTL:EP, which also featured the Latin American boy band CNCO and the singer Luísa Sonza.

NCT Dream's Renjun was inspired to pursue K-pop by which boy band and one of its Chinese members?

Exo and Lay's success abroad set his course: he passed an SM audition in Shenyang in 2015 and debuted the following year.

SM Entertainment staff street-cast Jaemin of NCT Dream while he was doing what with his mother?

Volunteer work that day meant handing out posters and collecting trash at an event, and he became an SM trainee in 2013.

Before joining NCT Dream, Chenle sang Memory from the musical Cats on which TV contest in 2010?

China's Got Talent made his name in 2010, and within months he had a record deal that led to three solo albums.

The Korean title of NCT Dream's 2022 single Glitch Mode translates into English as which tech term?

Buffering is how the song pictures someone freezing up in front of a crush, and the choreography includes a move that acts it out.

Which 2019 EP, NCT Dream's first since Mark's graduation, won Bonsang prizes at two ceremonies?

We Boom sold more than 300,000 copies in a month and was the best-selling release by any NCT unit in 2019.

Which song led NCT Dream's debut single album, a Gaon chart-topper released in February 2017?

My First and Last fronted The First, which entered the Gaon Album Chart at number one and also carried a cover of the 1993 hit Dunk Shot.

Ridin' made NCT Dream the first NCT unit to reach number one on which South Korean music site?

Melon, the country's largest music service at the time, had never been topped by an NCT unit, and all five songs on the EP reached its top 10.

Déjà Vu, NCT Dream's first song with Mark after his 2020 return, appeared on which full NCT album?

Resonance came out in two parts in late 2020 and sold more than 2.6 million copies by the end of the year, a new record for NCT.

In 2017 Mark of NCT Dream reached the final of which Mnet rap survival series, finishing seventh?

High School Rapper ended with him performing Drop, an original song featuring Seulgi of Red Velvet, in the final.

Which 2025 studio album, led by the single 1999, was the solo debut of NCT Dream's Mark?

The Firstfruit followed solo singles such as Child and 200, and its release was pushed back two months to ensure better quality.

NCT Dream's 2022 concert film In A Dream captures two opening nights of a tour at which Seoul venue?

Jamsil Olympic Stadium stepped in after two members caught COVID-19 and July dates at a smaller dome were scrapped, almost quadrupling the capacity.

Mark named which 1999 Korean crime comedy as the inspiration for NCT Dream's album Glitch Mode?

Attack the Gas Station follows four bored thugs who hold up a petrol station, and the album's opening track borrows a siren as a nod to it.

Jaemin sat out most of NCT Dream's 2017 activities while recovering from which injury?

A herniated disc kept him away from early 2017 until the single Go in March 2018, so the group promoted as six for a full year.

NCT Dream played an online concert in May 2020 as part of which paid streaming series from SM?

Beyond LIVE was billed as the first concert series made only for online audiences, and the group was the third SM act to play it.