On Thursday, October 30th, Seoul's District Court handed down their verdict in the case to determine whether the contract NewJeans signed with ADOR (their label) was valid. And, as anyone with half a brain could have told you, yes. Yes it was.

If you want a concise summary of the case and ruling, is a good resource.

But if you want my longwinded (ONTD Original?) attempt at explaining the entire mess, please click the cut.

AHEM.

So, potentially as early as late 2023 but definitely by early 2024, the CEO of ADOR, Min Hee Jin (heretofore will be referred to by me as MHJ) was exploring ways that she could either take NewJeans away from ADOR to start her own label outside of Hybe OR take the entire ADOR label from the Hybe conglomerate (Hybe is structured in a way that it is the overarchi

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