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Now the pieces are finally falling into place. Min Hee-jin had been demanding the right to terminate the contracts because she wanted to correct the unfair terms ADOR(HYBE) had imposed on the NewJeans members. But back then, they framed her attempt as an effort to poach the members.
Below is an excerpt from the Yonhap News article:
“According to the standard contract, a label’s rights to an entertainer’s name, image, and voice should expire when the contract ends. However, this provision was missing from NewJeans’ contracts.
As a result, the agency could continue using NewJeans’ image and voice rights even after the contracts ended. The NYT also pointed out that this could potentially extend to creating voice replicas or chatbots using artificial intelligence (AI) trained on their voices.”
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grentperez: I’m not gonna say when or where it was it could have been 20 million years ago
NewJeans never dies
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🚨 Min Heejin has JUST confirmed that Newjeans’ contract was written by HYBE’s legal team. When the contract was written, Ador did NOT have an independent legal team.
It is explained that the contract was not confirmed only by the approval of Ador's representative. It was said that it had to go through the agreement of the HYBE legal team, the chief financial officer (CFO), and the chief executive officer (CEO), and two out of three in-house directors had to be approved by the HYBE board of directors.
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EVERYBODY APOLOGIZE TO THEM!!!!!!!!!
Secret K-Pop Deals: The Times obtained the contracts signed by the group NewJeans. They show how record labels keep a tight grip on K-pop stars. nyti.ms/4eLmX6g
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Never forget MHJ was willing to give up $18 million HYBE owes her for the sake of NewJeans not being sued by HYBE but HYBE essentially refused by continuing to sue Danielle and break apart NewJeans. That alone should tell you who has NewJeans’ best interests at heart
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Lmao this statement is a Freudian slip, they are openly saying that they tell the Korean media exactly what they have to write. The NYT simply made it clear to them that they don't give them orders.
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reading through the comments under the NYT article and this one from a former record producer/artist manager/music attorney is exactly right:
“without minimal government protections, they are tantamount to INDENTURED SERVITUDE.”
hybe is beyond evil. this is genuinely inhumane.
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앙딱정해줄게
• 계약서 하이브 법무팀에서 만들었음
• 그당시 어도어 사내이사3명 민희진, 이경준(하이브CFO), 이창우(하이브 기업전략실장) 중 두명이 하이브사람이라 민희진한테 결정권이 없었음
• 뉴진스 부모님이 계약서 수정 요청했었고 부대표가 최종결정과정은 하이브측에있어서 어렵다고 민희진과 스탶들 믿고 맡겨달라고 함 (설마 쫒아낼줄몰랐으니까
• 민대표측은 계약체결권한 요구 했었고 거절당함
• 이후 억배임 프레임씌워져서 민희진, 구도어스탶들 쫒겨나고 하이브가 어도어 먹음
[Exclusive] “Here We Go Again with the ‘Everything Is Min Hee-jin’s Doing’ Narrative… Were You Trying to Praise Min Hee-jin?” Min Hee-jin Pushes Back Against Claims Over NewJeans’ Contract
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- Min Hee-jin’s side disputes HYBE’s claim that she was the driving force behind the contracts.
- “The initial draft of the contract was prepared by HYBE’s Legal Team.”
Sports Kyunghyang, Reporter Lee Sun-myeong
Former ADOR CEO Min Hee-jin’s side has directly challenged HYBE over responsibility for NewJeans’ exclusive contracts.
On November 6, Min Hee-jin’s side released a statement saying, “HYBE, it is time to move beyond this absurd ‘Everything Is Min Hee-jin’s Doing’ narrative and demonstrate accountability and a willingness to improve for the future of K-pop.”
The statement was issued in response to HYBE’s rebuttal of a New York Times (NYT) report about NewJeans’ exclusive contracts. HYBE had argued that Min, rather than the company, was the party responsible for the contracts.
Min Hee-jin’s side said, “HYBE claims that there was nothing wrong with the terms of NewJeans’ exclusive contracts, while simultaneously asserting that Min Hee-jin was the party behind all of these contracts. We have to ask whether HYBE released such a lengthy explanatory statement simply because it wanted to praise Min Hee-jin.”
Her side maintains that HYBE was the party that drafted the contracts.
“The initial draft of NewJeans’ exclusive contract was prepared by HYBE’s Legal Team,” the statement said.
It explained that ADOR did not have an independent legal team at the time and that the contracts could not be finalized solely through the approval of ADOR’s CEO. They required agreement from HYBE’s Legal Team, Chief Financial Officer (CFO), and Chief Executive Officer (CEO). They also needed approval from ADOR’s board of directors, where two of the three inside directors were HYBE representatives.
Min Hee-jin’s side also disclosed a message that ADOR’s then-vice president had sent to one of the members’ parents.
The message read: “This is because HYBE is involved in the final decision-making process. However, since Min Hee-jin is the CEO, please trust ADOR, which she leads, and its staff, and leave things in their hands.”
Her side also brought up events from 2024. In January of that year, Min Hee-jin requested that Park Ji-won, then HYBE CEO, grant her authority to execute important contracts, including exclusive artist contracts.
Min Hee-jin’s side questioned HYBE’s position, saying, “If ADOR had sufficient authority to independently determine and execute the key terms of exclusive contracts, why would its CEO have needed to separately request that authority from the parent company?”
HYBE had previously claimed that the contract wording was finalized through discussions involving Min Hee-jin, the vice president she had appointed, the members and their parents, among others. HYBE also claimed that the then-vice president had rejected proposals intended to reduce the artists’ financial burden.
In response, Min Hee-jin’s side countered that it was ADOR’s decision not to make the members bear training-related expenses from their trainee days.
Finally, Min Hee-jin’s side stated:
“After designing a structure in which a subsidiary’s CEO cannot give approval without the approval of the parent company’s CEO, HYBE has now distributed a statement attempting to shift responsibility by creating someone to blame. This is essentially HYBE spitting in its own face.”
