Not sure if you have already answered similar questions but do the Ateez members have accents when speaking Korean since half of them are not from Seoul? I think you mentioned San's pout-talking is a result of him over-compensating when trying to speak in a more standard Korean so I wonder if the rest also do similar things.
I have not in fact been asked this question before!
The only ones that have any sort of audible accent when they're not conscious of it are San and Seonghwa, and they're also the only two use playfully bring it out as part of their Lives and the reality content.
Yeosang has a very very very slight Pohang region Gyeongsangdo accent that gets sprinkled into his cadences like powdered sugar on a madeleine. But the generally surreal elegance of his diction and voice tend to just make him sound like he's from the angel dimension.
Hongjoong sometimes uses phrasing ( ~다잉?) that is characteristic of the Jeolla region, but I think he's from Anyang and I don't know enough about him yet (sorry) so I don't know whether he has family members that influenced him growing up who are from Jeolla.
Jongho seems extremely Seoul born and bred in the way he talks.
Wooyoung has a parent from the Chung-cheong region, but from the huge amount of time he has spent with San, San's mom, and probably also Seonghwa, he will often 'try on' the Gyeongsangdo accent. Sadly, he doesn't do it in any sort of credible way. I am very Gyeongsango influenced, so I'm not very versed in the nuances of the Chungcheong accent, but I am doubtful Wooyoung exhibits it very much.
Mingi, um, doesn't sound like he's from Korea, even, some of the time. There's something about the way Mingi talks, or maybe it's just the power of his voice, that makes it feel like he's inventing the language as he goes, so attributing it to a particular region is difficult.
I plan to write about this later about Yunho, but Yunho is from Jeolla, which also has a really specific cadence and regional vocabulary and everything, and his parents STILL live there, and yet he won't do the accent. He seems very resistant to doing the accent - he's been asked by Hottoks on his Toktoq chats to do it, and has lamented that he can't. (With Yunho, in case you didn't know, refusals of this nature can either mean that he really can't do it or that for multiple reasons of his own he doesn't just doesn't want to. Given his skills as a mimic I find it hard to believe he can't at all.)
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