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Extended members here refer to members that never left but barely participate in the group activities every time the group has comeback.

I noticed almost every SM boygroups have extended members due to circumstances.

• Super Junior has Henry and Zhoumi, even Sungmin. Henry and Zhoumi are technically only SuJu-M members but they're basically SuJu members overall. Sungmin never officially left after his marriage so he kinda extended during his long hiatus until he actually FINALLY OFFICIALLY left SM and SuJu last year.

• Exo has Lay. Lay never left and has always made appearances in several Exo MVs ever since he started to barely join Exo in 2016.

• NCT has Winwin. Out of every NCT member that is not here anymore, Winwin is the only member who never officially left. He's technically still in the WayV lineup. His lineup in 127 still spark discussions among Nctzen whether or not he's a 127 member still.

So what other kpop group have this kind of extended member?

People always mentioned 1st, 2nd and 3rd gen kpop songs when talking about classic kpop songs.

But what 4th gen kpop song do you think would be classic?

I'm a fresh graduate and got my first big job 2 months ago. The job is overall okay but it's kinda miserable how I have no friend I can talk to.

Everyone in my department is 30-40s while I'm the only one in their 20s. Literally have no same/similar age co-workers. But the people here are super friendly and nice, it's just that I have problem with talking or connecting with older people. Like, I have no problem with new or younger people but older more experienced people intimidated me.

I'm super awkward and painfully shy. Due to having no one to talk to, it makes my job miserable and difficult and it's stressing me out.

Has anyone experience this? What is your advice for painfully awkward freshie here? 👉👈

When a group gets a lot of unnecessary hate, like BLACKPINK for example, I actually feel more curious and even defensive? It makes me want to check them out more or defend them.

But when a group is praised too much or treated like the perfect group, like SHINee, I weirdly lose interest. It’s like the hype sets my expectations so high that I just don’t even want to start, or I feel like I’ll end up disappointed.