Mark Lee (singer)
Mark Lee (born August 2, 1999), known professionally as Mark, is a Canadian rapper, singer and songwriter based in South Korea. He is a member of the South Korean boy group NCT and its sub-units NCT U, NCT 127, and NCT Dream. Mark debuted in April 2016 as a member of the rotational unit NCT U before becoming a member of the Seoul-based fixed unit NCT 127 in July 2016 and NCT Dream in August 2016. Mark joined the supergroup SuperM in October 2019.
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Born | Mark Lee August 2, 1999 |
Nationality | Canadian |
Other names | Lee Min-hyung |
Education | School of Performing Arts Seoul |
Occupation |
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Musical career | |
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Years active | 2013–present |
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Korean name | |
Hangul | 이민형 |
Hanja | |
Revised Romanization | I Minhyeong |
McCune–Reischauer | Yi Minhyŏng |
Stage name | |
Hangul | 마크 |
Revised Romanization | Ma Keu |
McCune–Reischauer | Ma K'ŭ |
Career
2013–2015: SM Rookies
In 2012, Mark joined SM Entertainment after passing the SM Global Audition in Canada in 2010. He was introduced as a member of SM Rookies, a pre-debut training team managed by SM Entertainment, in December of the following year.[1] In 2014, he appeared on Exo 90:2014, a reality TV show starring Exo, as part of the SM Rookies program, where he performed songs and recreated music videos of prominent 90s K-pop idols.[2] Mark appeared on Disney Channel Korea's The Mickey Mouse Club as a Mouseketeer alongside other SM Rookies program participants in 2015. The show, hosted by Leeteuk of Super Junior, aired from July 23 to December 17.[3]
2016–present: NCT and solo endeavors
In April 2016, SM Entertainment confirmed that Mark and five other members of SM Rookies—Taeyong, Doyoung, Ten and Jaehyun—would debut as members of NCT's first subgroup, NCT U. They released their first digital single on April 9, titled "The 7th Sense", in which he and Taeyong participated in songwriting.[4] Three months later, SM announced that Mark would become a member of NCT's second subgroup, NCT 127, along with Taeyong, Taeil, Yuta, Jaehyun, Winwin and Haechan. NCT 127 made their official debut with the extended play NCT #127 and title track "Fire Truck" on July 10, 2016.[5]
Mark joined NCT's third subgroup, NCT Dream, which consisted of members Renjun, Jeno, Haechan, Jaemin, Chenle and Jisung. The group officially debuted on August 24, 2016 with the single "Chewing Gum". The following month, Mark featured on Henry Lau's "Going Through Your Heart", an original soundtrack for the KBS drama, Sweet Stranger and Me.[6] This marked his first solo endeavour since debuting in NCT.
In January 2017, Mark joined High School Rapper, a survival hip hop reality TV show which aired on Mnet.[7] He advanced to the finals and performed an original song, "Drop" featuring labelmate Seulgi of Red Velvet, and placed 7th overall.[8] In July 2017, Mark collaborated with Exo's Xiumin on single, "Young & Free". It was released through Season 2 of SM Entertainment's digital music project SM Station.[9] The same month, Mark appeared in the first season of the music variety show Snowball Project. He teamed up with Park Jae-jung to release "Lemonade Love" on July 21, also through SM Station, which was produced by former labelmate Henry Lau and Yoon Jong-shin.[10]
Beginning in February 2018, Mark served as one of the main emcees of the music program Show! Music Core; he left the program in January 2019 to focus on activities with NCT 127.[11] In May 2018, he became a regular cast member on the MBC reality TV show It's Dangerous Beyond The Blankets.[12] In October 2018, Mark released the song "Dream Me" with Red Velvet's Joy for the soundtrack of the KBS drama The Ghost Detective. Mark was the first member to officially graduate from NCT Dream on December 31, 2018,[13] although he would later rejoin the group in April 2020 after its age-based graduation system was abolished.[14][15]
On August 7, 2019, Mark was confirmed as a member of SuperM, a "K-pop supergroup" created by SM Entertainment in collaboration with Capitol Records. The group began promoting in October of that year in the American music market.[16][17] SuperM's self-titled debut EP was released on October 4, 2019, led by the single "Jopping".[18] Mark continued to promote with SuperM throughout 2020, through the release the group's first full-length studio album, Super One.
Discography
Songs
Title | Year | Peak chart positions |
Sales | Album | |
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KOR Gaon [19] |
US World [20] | ||||
As lead artist | |||||
"Drop" (두고가) (featuring Seulgi) |
2017 | 93 | — | KOR: 46,443[21] | School Rapper FINAL |
Collaborations | |||||
"Young & Free" (with Xiumin) |
2017 | 31 | 6 |
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SM Station Season 2 |
"Lemonade Love" (with Park Jae-jung) |
197 | 17 | N/A | ||
Soundtrack appearances | |||||
"Going Through Your Heart" (with Henry) |
2016 | — | — | N/A | Sweet Stranger and Me OST |
"Dream Me" (나라는 꿈) (with Joy) |
2018 | — | — | The Ghost Detective OST | |
Filmography
Television shows
Year | Title | Network | Role | Notes | Ref. |
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2017 | High School Rapper | Mnet | Contestant | [7] | |
Snowball Project | Naver TV | Cast member | [10] | ||
2018–2019 | Show! Music Core | MBC | Co-host | [11] | |
2018 | It's Dangerous Beyond The Blankets | MBC | Main cast | Ep. 8–10 (Season 2) | [12] |
Music videos
Title | Year |
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"Young & Free" (with Xiumin) | 2017 |
"Lemonade Love" (with Park Jae-jung) | |
Songwriting
All credits are adapted from the Korea Music Copyright Association, unless stated otherwise.[23]
Year | Song | Album | Artist(s) | Lyrics | Music | Arrangement | |||
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Credited | With | Credited | With | Credited | With | ||||
2016 | "The 7th Sense" | NCT 2018 Empathy | Taeyong, Doyoung, Ten, Jaehyun & Mark | Yes | Kim Dong-hyun, Cho Jin-joo, Taeyong, January 8th (lalala Studio) | No | N/A | No | N/A |
"Firetruck" | NCT 127 | NCT 127 | Yes | Taeyong, Jaehyun, Lee Seu-ran | No | N/A | No | N/A | |
"Mad City" | Taeyong, Jaehyun & Mark | Yes | Taeyong, Double Dragon | No | N/A | No | N/A | ||
"Chewing Gum" | The First | NCT Dream | Yes | Jo Yoon-kyung, Moon Seol-ri, Jung Min-ji | No | N/A | No | N/A | |
"My First and Last" | Yes | Jeon Gan-di | No | N/A | No | N/A | |||
2017 | "Drop" | School Rapper FINAL | Mark (feat. Seulgi) | Yes | Le'mon, Suh Chul Gue, Jeong Min Seung | No | N/A | No | N/A |
"Baby Don't Like It" | Limitless | Taeil, Taeyong, Doyoung & Mark | Yes | G.Soul, Taeyong | Yes | Digi, G.Soul, Taeyong, Tay Jasper, MZMC, Jonathan Perkins | No | N/A | |
"Angel" | NCT 127 | Yes | Kevin Oppa (mr. cho), Taeyong | No | N/A | No | N/A | ||
"Cherry Bomb" | Cherry Bomb | Yes | Taeyong, Deepflow, Lim Jung-hyo, Oh Min-joo | No | N/A | No | N/A | ||
"Running 2 U" | Yes | Taeyong, JQ (Makeumine Works), Kim Jin (Makeumine Works) | No | N/A | No | N/A | |||
"0 Mile" | Yes | Taeyong, Jo Yoon-kyung, Cho Jin-joo, Choi So-young, Park Yong-joon | No | N/A | No | N/A | |||
"Whiplash" | Jaehyun, Mark, Taeyong, Doyoung & Taeil | Yes | Taeyong, JQ (Makeumine Works), Oneru (Makeumine Works), Xitsuh | No | N/A | No | N/A | ||
"Summer 127" | NCT 127 | Yes | Taeyong, $ÜN (Joombas), Bae Min-soo (Joombas), seizetheday (Joombas), CiaNo (Joombas), Kim In-hyung | No | N/A | No | N/A | ||
"Young & Free" | SM Station Season 2 | Xiumin & Mark | Yes | Jo Yoon-kyung | No | N/A | No | N/A | |
"Lemonade Love" | Park Jae-jung & Mark | Yes | Henry Lau, Park Jae-Jung, Yoon Jong Shin | No | N/A | No | N/A | ||
"La La Love" | We Young | NCT Dream | Yes | Shin Agnes (MonoTree) | No | N/A | No | N/A | |
"Walk You Home" | Yes} | Seo Ji-eum | No | N/A | No | N/A | |||
"Trigger The Fever" | Yes | 100% Lyricism, Hwang Ji-won | No | N/A | No | N/A | |||
"My Page" | Yes | Min Yeon-jae | No | N/A | No | N/A | |||
"Joy" | SM Station Season 2 | Yes | Cho Yun Kyoung, Isaac Watts | No | N/A | No | N/A | ||
2018 | "Boss" | NCT 2018 Empathy | Taeyong, Doyoung, Jaehyun, Winwin, Jungwoo, Lucas & Mark | Yes | Wutan, Yoo Young-jin, Taeyong | No | N/A | No | N/A |
"Yestoday" | Taeyong, Doyoung, Lucas & Mark | Yes | Jung Joo-hee, Taeyong, Steven Lee, Cho Jin-joo | No | N/A | No | N/A | ||
"Black on Black" | Taeyong, Doyoung, Ten, Jaehyun & Mark | Yes | MINOS, Taeyong, Deez | No | N/A | No | N/A | ||
"Go" | NCT Dream | Yes | Hwang Yoo-bin, Ji Ye-won (Joombas) | No | N/A | No | N/A | ||
"We Go Up"
(Korean & Chinese ver.) |
We Go Up | Yes | Kenzie | No | N/A | No | N/A | ||
"Beautiful Time" | Yes | Seo Ji-eum, Kim In-ha | No | N/A | No | N/A | |||
"Drippin" | Yes | Jeon Ji-eun, Hwang Seon-jeong, Kim Jeong-mi | No | N/A | No | N/A | |||
"Dear Dream" | Yes | Baek Geum-min (Song Carat), Lee Soo-jung (Song Carat), Jam Factory, Jisung, Jaemin, Jeno | No | N/A | No | N/A | |||
"City 127" | Regular - Irregular | NCT 127 | Yes | JQ (Makeumine Works), Moon Hee-yeon (Makeumine Works), Taeyong | No | N/A | No | N/A | |
"Regular" | Yes | Coogie (ATM Seoul), Tommy $trate, Taeyong | No | N/A | No | N/A | |||
"My Van" | Taeyong, Yuta, Jaehyun, Jungwoo & Mark | Yes | Kim Dong-hyun, Taeyong | No | N/A | No | N/A | ||
"Come Back" | NCT 127 | Yes | Bong Eun-young, Ryu Da-som, Taeyong | No | N/A | No | N/A | ||
"Regular"
(English ver.) |
Yes | Wilbart "Vedo" McCoy III, Taeyong | No | N/A | No | N/A | |||
"Welcome to My Playground" | Yes | Seo Ji-eum, Ra.D, BrotherSu, Taeyong | No | N/A | No | N/A | |||
"What We Talkin’ Bout" | Up Next Session: NCT 127 | NCT 127 (feat. Marteen) | Yes | Taeyong, Marteen | No | N/A | No | N/A | |
"Candle Light" | SM Station Season 3 | NCT Dream | Yes | Hwang Yu Bin, James Eugene Burney II, Andreas Oberg, Sean Michael Alexander, Darren Ellis Smith | No | N/A | No | N/A | |
2019 | "Regular" | The Vision | WayV | Yes | Tommy Strate, Coogie, Taeyong, Yoo Young Jin Mike Daley, Wilbart Mccoy III, Mitchell Owens, Yan Yun Nong, George Kranz | No | N/A | No | N/A |
"Come Back" | Yes | Bong Eun Young, Ryu Da Som, Taeyong, MZMC, Deez, Michael Daley, Michael Jiminez, Jeremy Jasper, Walter Owens, Yan Yun Nong | No | N/A | No | N/A | |||
"Lips" | Awaken | NCT 127 | Yes | Akira, Taeyong | No | N/A | No | N/A | |
"Jet Lag" | We Are Superhuman | Yes | JQ (Makeumine Works), Kim Hye-jeong (Makeumine Works) | No | N/A | No | N/A | ||
2020 | "Pandora's Box" | Neo Zone | Yes | JQ (Makeumine Works), Hyeon Ji-won (Makeumine Works), Kim Hye-ji (Makeumine Works), Taeyong, Johnny | No | N/A | No | N/A | |
"Mad Dog" | Taeil, Doyoung, Taeyong & Mark | Yes | Kim Boo-min, Taeyong | No | N/A | No | N/A | ||
"Love Song" | NCT 127 | Yes | Seo Ji-eum, Taeyong, Johnny | No | N/A | No | N/A | ||
"QTAH"[24] | Non-album release | Mark | Yes | N/A | No | N/A | No | N/A | |
"100"[25] | Super One | Super M | Yes | Andy Love, Yoo Young Jin | Yes | Harold "Alawn" Philippon, Andy Love, Ryan S. Jhun, Yoo Young Jin, Jasmine Kara Khatib-nia | No | N/A | |
"The Himalayas"[26] | Non-album release | Mark & Taeyong | Yes | Taeyong | Yes | Taeyong | No | N/A | |
"Bad Smell"[27][28] | Non-album release | Mark | Yes | N/A | Yes | Czaer, Johnny | No | N/A | |
"Together At Home"[25] | Super One | Super M | Yes | Lee Sue Ran, Taeyong | No | N/A | No | N/A |
Awards and nominations
Year | Award | Category | Nominated work | Result |
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2018 | 18th MBC Entertainment Awards | Rookie Award in Music / Talk Show – Male | Show! Music Core | Nominated |
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- "[유희열의 스케치북] SuperM, 숨겨진 내면의 야수성 폭발 무대 ♬ 호랑이". news.naver.com (in Korean). Retrieved September 14, 2020.
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External links
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- NCT 127 website: nct127official
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