Ah, the naivete of the American-centric thoughts.
Absolutely no one will break information of just like the Huge 4 merging with Samsung, Hyundai, and SK to (formally) make idols indentured servants or one thing. Absolutely.
Properly, that was a short-lived break (nonetheless not updating additional than this in the present day) for Thanksgiving, as NewJeans have held an emergency press convention and introduced the termination of their contract with ADOR.
On November 28, Minji, Hanni, Danielle, Haerin, and Hyein held an emergency press convention.
On the press convention, the members defined, “The time interval for rectification ends at midnight tonight, but it surely appears HYBE and the present ADOR haven’t any plans for reform or to hearken to our requests.”
Minji mentioned, “The unique contract between NewJeans and ADOR can be terminated as of November 29 at 12 a.m. KST,” including, “We’re uninterested in HYBE’s insincere angle and felt as soon as once more that they haven’t any want to hearken to our requests.”
This was largely predictable after Min Hee Jin left the corporate and following NewJeans’ formal discover a pair weeks in the past. That mentioned, it’s clearly nonetheless the main story and now can be going ahead indefinitely.
Hanni and Danielle, respectively, have left messages in English.
We have now confronted mistreatment not simply towards us but additionally towards our employees, numerous preventions and contradictions, deliberate miscommunication, and manipulation concerning a number of areas. [It is] an organization that now not has any sincerity within the artwork of music that’s created, is quite fixated on showing like a well-working firm regardless of solely having ideas about creating wealth, and doesn’t have any conscience in regards to the unfavorable impact they create by way of their non-authentic means. This isn’t the kind of work ethic we respect nor need to be part of, and to proceed working beneath an organization with no intention of defending NewJeans would solely do us hurt. So that’s the reason we, the 5 of us collectively, have agreed to depart ADOR. And for us to obviously categorical ourselves earlier than deceptive data is launched concerning this, now we have chosen to carry an emergency press convention in the present day.
So mainly as soon as we go away ADOR we’ll intention to pursue freely the actions that we actually want. Particularly with the schedules which have already been organized, we’ll attempt our perfect to proceed them with none issues. We actually want to have the ability to launch new music for Bunnies subsequent yr, as quickly as potential, at any time when. And we actually hope that now we have the chance to fulfill you guys from all all over the world. Lastly, we’re effectively conscious that from in the present day we might not be capable to use our present title NewJeans, nevertheless, that doesn’t imply that we’re giving up on the title in any respect, and we’ll proceed to battle for NewJeans. No matter our title, simply keep in mind that NewJeans by no means dies.
They largely have had the help of the general public thus far, which is comprehensible on condition that HYBE have successfully shot themselves within the foot again and again all through this saga. However as I’ve been saying, successful in court docket is a distinct animal and figures to be an excellent larger hurdle to clear for NewJeans, and I ponder if additional data emerges in these authorized arguments. Both method, I’ll clearly be following the case, since like its predecessors, it might probably result in ripple results all through the trade.
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ADOR has issued a press release in response, predictably saying the contracts are nonetheless legitimate.
We remorse {that a} press convention to announce the termination of unique contract was deliberate and performed even earlier than receiving a response to the certification of contents and with out ample evaluate.
ADOR, as a celebration of the unique contracts, has not violated the contracts, and claiming that belief has been unilaterally damaged doesn’t represent grounds for termination.
The unique contracts between ADOR and the NewJeans members stay legitimate. Subsequently, we anticipate them to proceed their scheduled actions forward along with ADOR as they’ve till now.
We have now requested a number of conferences with the artists, however they weren’t carried out. We hope that even now, we are able to open our hearts and have honest conversations collectively.