周三，引领势不可挡的韩国流行音乐的SM娱乐公司公布了新的男子组合。该组合没有人数限制，使用不同语言演唱歌曲，活动范围包括了亚洲与拉丁美洲。
The company that pioneered South Korea's all-conquering K-pop industry unveiled its new boy-band concept on Wednesday -- a group with limitless members, singing in multiple languages and based in cities from Asia to Latin America.
SM娱乐公司旗下有包括Super Junior和少女时代在内的韩国流行音乐文化的金字招牌。该公司表示，新组合将代表“韩国流行音乐”的最终形态。自上世纪九十年代后期，正是由于韩国电视剧和流行音乐的出口，才开启了韩流的盛行。
SM Entertainment, which handles some of the biggest names in K-pop, including Super Junior and Girls' Generation, said the new band represented the final incarnation of the "Korean wave" that began with the export of Korean TV dramas and pop music in the late 1990s.
SM娱乐公司创始人李秀满在首尔的发布会上表示：“这是真正本土化的韩国流行音乐。”
"This is the true localisation of K-pop," SM Entertainment founder Lee Soo-Man said at a launch in Seoul.
这个组合，亦或是几个小分队的集合，会以NCT的名称进行相关活动。NCT代表着新文化技术（Neo Culture Technology）。一些粉丝在社交网络上很快对其发出了嘲讽。
The group, or rather collection of sub-groups, will go under the umbrella title of NCT, which stands for Neo Culture Technology -- a name that some fans quickly took to ridiculing on social networks.
一名韩国流行音乐的粉丝发推表示：“这听上去像个技术公司的名字。”而另一名粉丝则表示，NCT这个缩略词更适合国家统考。
"Sounds like a tech company," tweeted one K-pop aficionado, while another said NCT was an acronym better suited for a national examination.
李秀满表示，该组合已有40名成员，其中一些人将在接下来几个月组成一个最初的组合阵容，在首尔和日本进行演出。
Lee said the group already had 40 members, of which a handful would form an initial unit that will start performing in Seoul and Japan in the next few months.
李秀满说：“组合将大量录取新成员，并且不会限制人数。”
"New members will be freely recruited with no limits on the number," Lee said.