After the group reveals the termination of contracts with the agency and lawsuits are opened on both sides, Newjeans and Ador will face each other in audience
The judicial process involving the K-Pop Newjeans group and the Hybe subsidiary agency won an update, as the Koreaboo Portal reported that the 41st Civil Court Division of the District Court of Seoul, South Korea, marked the audience for both parties on April 3.
It turns out that in November last year, Minji, Hanni, Danielle, Haerin and Hyein, the members of Newjeans, They shared that they would not continue with the exclusive contracts established with the ador and that the termination had already been signed by them.
The decision came after a series of events after the agency’s former CEO left, Min hee jinwhich resulted in allegations of poor management, bullying in the workplace and media defamation, culminating in the termination of the contract due to the non -response of the ador to rectify the alleged violations of duty requested by the group in the same month.
The quintet also revealed that it would open a lawsuit to recover the name of the training and continue its activities as a group independently, which was followed by opening a contest in the group’s new Instagram profile found under the user @jeanzforfree, Created in order to define the new name that Newjeans will temporarily use until the end of the process.
As a result, the ador also filed a lawsuit to confirm the validity of the exclusivity contract, as well as stating that the contract with the members remains valid, mourning the group’s decision to follow parallel activities with a new name before receiving the legal judgment saying that this “may be a serious violation of the contract.”
In the adoring process, Newjeans revealed that there is still an injunction to “preserve the status of the agency and ban the signing of advertising contracts.” When the application was received, the group contacted the law firm Shin & Kim LLC as its legal representative.
Source: Recreio
