2027 NCT DREAM SEASON’S GREETINGS BEHIND

Why Koreans care

One member explicitly says the school styling recalls “My First and Last,” NCT DREAM’s student-themed release from ten years earlier. That makes the shoot’s classroom imagery a callback to the group’s early era, not merely a generic school concept.

In the Korean comments

One comment reads, in translation, “I love this internet-novel universe: the members born in 2000 are third-years, Chenle is a second-year, and Jisung is a first-year.” The label 인소 (inso, internet novel) frames their different school years as the cast hierarchy of an old-school Korean online romance story.

What the words mean

Comments asking SM to “앨범 끓여와라” (aelbeom kkeuryeowara, “boil up an album”) or praising it for “성의있게 말아와” (seong-ui itge marawa, “serving it up with care”) are not literal cooking instructions. They use a casual, exaggerated food metaphor for producing and delivering a fully developed concept; here, the commenters want this particular visual style carried into an album.