A separate lawsuit to determine if NewJeans/NJZ can legally terminate its contract with ADOR begins April 3, but if the court sides with HYBE/ADOR and the group refuses to make new music ...

Which is why the group’s announcement, last November, that it wished to terminate its contract with its label and management agency, Ador — a sublabel of the K-pop conglomerate Hybe — was ...

Hybe Co. has won a legal battle to control K-pop group NewJeans, reinforcing the status quo for a Korean entertainment group ...

When they left in November, HYBE lost almost half a billion dollars in market cap. So ADOR filed an injunction at a Seoul court in January, first to bar the five from taking on new promotional ...

K-pop group NewJeans announced an indefinite hiatus just days after a court in Seoul issued an injunction preventing them ...

NewJeans and Ador have been embroiled in a feud since last year’s ouster of Min Hee Jin, the band’s former creative director and Ador’s former CEO, by Ador’s parent company Hybe.

Hybe’s Ador agency is embroiled in a messy legal battle with NewJeans, the K-Pop group who recently renamed themselves NJZ.

On March 25, 2025, a South Korean outlet, MediaUs, reported that Min Hee-jin, the former CEO of ADOR, had withdrawn from the legal dispute with HYBE much earlier. That left NewJeans to handle the ...

The legal conflict began when New Jeans alleged mistreatment and lack of support. Critics are unsurprised by the ruling and expect no future collaborations with HYBE/ADOR. With the South Korean ...

a South Korean record label and a subsidiary of Hybe Corp., which is behind K-pop groups like BTS. The injunction said the group’s decision to rename itself and break away from the label could ...