{"id":136650,"date":"2025-01-23T08:04:22","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T16:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=136650"},"modified":"2025-01-23T08:04:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T16:04:22","slug":"newjeans-to-battle-hybes-ador-with-legal-representatives-as-they-change-their-group-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/newjeans-to-battle-hybes-ador-with-legal-representatives-as-they-change-their-group-name\/","title":{"rendered":"NewJeans to battle HYBE&#8217;s ADOR with legal representatives as they change their group name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After parting ways with HYBE&#8217;s ADOR, <strong>NewJeans<\/strong> have enlisted the high-powered Shin &amp; Kim LLC (Sejong) as their lawyers to handle the legal issues with their (apparently) former company.\u00a0 The group has claimed that <strong>HYBE&#8217;s ADOR<\/strong> tried tying them down with an invalid exclusive contract, all while blocking the members\u2019 new endorsement possibilities.<\/p>\n<p>On January 23, 2025, NewJeans hopped onto their fresh Instagram account <strong>@jeanzforfree<\/strong> to spill the legal tea. They accused the companies of ghosting them under the idea of \u201clong-term break\u201d and of fueling negative rumors through the Internet. Even more shocking, NewJeans claim their agencies secretly approached their parents in an attempt to manipulate them.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cato_o_o\/status\/1882262259164135666\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Article<\/p>\n<p>Jan 23 2025<\/p>\n<p>What Will Bang Si-hyuk\u2019s HYBE Do? NewJeans Declares, \u201cWe\u2019ll Continue Under a New Name\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe five of us have no intention of returning to HYBE or ADOR, where even the bare minimum of good faith cannot be expected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kim Jung-Woo<\/p>\n<p>Link\ud83d\udc47 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6rZDdOPOSI\">pic.twitter.com\/6rZDdOPOSI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Cato_o_o (@cato_o_o) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cato_o_o\/status\/1882262259164135666?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 23, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Refusing to back down, the quintet made it crystal clear: they aren&#8217;t returning ADOR or HYBE. In addition, they apologized to fans for the drama, promising a fight for their creative freedom and a musical comeback. Finally, the members also announced they would<strong> temporarily change their group name<\/strong> and asked their fans (also known as Bunnies) to help them with suggestions for a fresh name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After parting ways with HYBE&#8217;s ADOR, NewJeans have enlisted the high-powered Shin &amp; Kim LLC (Sejong) as their lawyers to handle the legal issues with their (apparently) former company.\u00a0 The group has claimed that HYBE&#8217;s ADOR tried tying them down with an invalid exclusive contract, all while blocking the members\u2019 new endorsement possibilities. On January [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":136652,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,16],"tags":[1747],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-136650","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-kpop","9":"tag-newjeans"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136650"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=136650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}