{"id":148441,"date":"2025-09-11T06:45:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T13:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=148441"},"modified":"2025-09-11T06:45:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T13:45:48","slug":"newjeans-vs-ador-settlement-collapses-and-no-agreement-is-reached","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/newjeans-vs-ador-settlement-collapses-and-no-agreement-is-reached\/","title":{"rendered":"NewJeans vs ADOR: settlement collapses and no agreement is reached"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The legal race between <strong>NewJeans<\/strong> and <strong>ADOR<\/strong> just hit its final wall. On September 11th, 2025, a second attempt at mediation between the parties lasted only 18 minutes before collapsing. This means NewJeans\u2019 future now is in the hands of the court, with a definitive ruling set for October 30th, 2025.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/njzbase\/status\/1966006222123053336\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NewJeans and ADOR did not reach a settlement during the 2nd mediation session!<\/p>\n<p>First verdict of the main trial will have it&#39;s ruling on October 30th at 9:50 AM KST <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/I5BbiYJ4IU\">pic.twitter.com\/I5BbiYJ4IU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NJZ Base (@NewJeans_Base) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewJeans_Base\/status\/1966006222123053336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 11, 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>The legal showdown between the girl group and another began in December 2024, when the agency sued to confirm the group\u2019s contracts, demanding the members return after they decided to exit the company on their own. NewJeans says their trust was shattered when <strong>CEO Min Hee Jin<\/strong> and key staff left the agency, and they started being mistreated.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kchartsmaster\/status\/1966008738730438961\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The second mediation round between NewJeans and ADOR has broken down. As the two mediation sessions failed, the court will pronounce a verdict on the validity of the exclusive contract on October 30th.<\/p>\n<p>The second mediation lasted about 20 minutes. Only lawyers from the two\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RvsTQvXlSE\">pic.twitter.com\/RvsTQvXlSE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kpop Charts (@kchartsmaster) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kchartsmaster\/status\/1966008738730438961?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 11, 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>Meanwhile, Min Hee Jin herself showed up in court this week for her separate $19.5 million lawsuit against HYBE. With settlements off the table and money on the line, both NewJeans and their former mentor are staring down make-or-break verdicts. For the time being, fans will be waiting for October 30th, crossing fingers for NewJeans to obtain a favorable outcome in this courtroom battle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The legal race between NewJeans and ADOR just hit its final wall. On September 11th, 2025, a second attempt at mediation between the parties lasted only 18 minutes before collapsing. This means NewJeans\u2019 future now is in the hands of the court, with a definitive ruling set for October 30th, 2025. The legal showdown between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":148442,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,16],"tags":[1747],"class_list":{"0":"post-148441","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\/148441","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=148441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}