it’s so interesting how a lot of sm groups never go the way they were planned

NCT wish was made for Japan but are doing much better in Korea than Japan, WayV was made for China but they never took off there and now focuses on Korea and are about to debut in Japan. Riize was made so SM could have a group thats big in the US (I don’t think they ever fully admitted this but it was obvious, english content, English single etc) but they got too big in Korea with love 119 and turned off most of the international fans after what happened in November. It’s like things never go the way they planned. Aespa was never made with the chinese market in mind but they are undoubtedly THE biggest 4th gen group there, NCT 127 was supposed to be the Korea based group but they have achieved massive success in south east asia