After a year-long legal battle, K-pop girl group NewJeans lost a case against their record label Ador. The court dismissed NewJeans’ claim of mistreatment and manipulation by the label and ruled that their contract with Ador is valid until 2029. NewJeans debuted in 2022 with the members Kim Minji, Hanni Pham, Danielle Marsh, Kang Haerin and Lee Hyein. The girl group has multiple songs with over 700 million streams on Spotify, such as “Ditto,” “OMG” and “Super Shy.”
The K-pop industry has a reputation for mistreating its artists, according to Forbes, evidenced by former K-pop idols such as Goo Hara, Choi Jin-ri known as Sulli and Moonbin, who all committed suicide before the age of 30. The New York Times wrote that these deaths exposed the uglier side of the Korean entertainment industry. Exacerbating the dark side of the industry, idols can rarely speak up against their labels, which makes the NewJeans case unprecedented.
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