Newzins member Odor is trying to block activities...Presumed to be a retaliatory measure (Full Story)
Mar 06, 2025
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The members of Newzins, who declared their independent activities by claiming the group's name as NJZ, announced on the 6th through the NJZ PR account that "We notified the termination of the exclusive contract as of November 29, 2024, because Odor did not fulfill its exclusive contractual obligations, and the contract was terminated accordingly. Therefore, Adore informs us that it is no longer authorized to manage or interfere with our activities" he said.
"Nevertheless, on January 6, 2025, Adore filed an application for provisional injunction with the intention of acknowledging that they were still management companies of NJZ." At the time, Adore insisted that he only took issue with advertising activities, but the application included a request to recognize the status of a management company", he explained.
In response, he argued that "this is an attempt to limit not only advertising but also all entertainment activities of the NJZ" and interpreted that "the ultimate purpose of Doror is to completely block the activities of the NJZ"."
"On February 11, 2025, Dorr extended the purpose of applying for provisional injunction and requested that all music activities, including songwriting, composition, performance, and singing of the NJZ, as well as advertisements, and all other incidental activities be prohibited."
Regarding this, Chairman Bang Si-hyuk put pressure on the officials of the complex concert' occurred shortly after the news was delivered, so it is presumed that the decision was taken as a retaliatory measure when the attempt to cancel the performance was neutralized", he explained.
Members stated that "Only a few days ago, Adore continued to express his position on the independent activities of NJZ, but did not disclose that Adore's application for provisional injunction was aimed at prohibiting all entertainment activities""On the surface, Doror only takes issue with NJZ's advertising activities or puts forward a justification to prevent confusion between fans and advertisers, but in reality, the court is asking the court to ban all NJZ entertainment activities themselves. This is an attempt to infringe on the professional freedom of the NJZ, and at the same time appears to be intended to avoid public criticism by not disclosing it publicly.'
In addition, the essence of the NJZ is musical activity, and limiting it is to deny the value of the NJZ's existence. In the end, Odor stressed that he had applied for a provisional injunction to block all activities of the NZ from the beginning."
Finally, "Various acts of obstruction, including provisional disposition, are attempts to fundamentally halt our career as artists and are nothing more than unilateral harassment to extinguish us who want to legally terminate our exclusive contracts and continue our activities. We will faithfully deal with the provisional disposition and the upcoming main lawsuit, and we would like to confirm the legality of the termination during the trial process once again."
After unilaterally claiming that their exclusive contract with their agency Adore ended in November last year, the members of New Jeans are continuing their independent activities, saying their activity names are NZ. From the 21st to the 23rd, he will attend the event at the Asia World Expo in Hong Kong and perform a new song. In this regard, Adore filed a lawsuit against the members to confirm the validity of the exclusive contract, saying that the exclusive contract with Newzins is still valid. The Seoul Central District Court will hold the date of interrogation of Adore's provisional injunction against the members on March 7, and the first hearing of the lawsuit will be held on April 3.
The following is the full text of the Newzins members' positions.
Hello, we're NJZ.
On Friday of last week, we are inevitably expressing our position to respond to Adore's announcement of additional positions and to prevent misunderstanding of the disposition scheduled for this week.
We notified the termination of the exclusive contract as of November 29, 2024, because Adore did not fulfill its exclusive contractual obligations, and the contract was terminated accordingly. Therefore, Adore informs us that we are no longer authorized to manage or interfere with our activities.
Nevertheless, on January 6, 2025, Adore filed a provisional injunction with the intent of acknowledging that they were still management of NZ. At the time, Adore insisted that he only took issue with advertising activities, but the application included a request to recognize the status of a management company. This is an attempt to limit all entertainment activities in the NJZ as well as advertising, indicating that the ultimate purpose of the adore is to block the activities of the NJZ altogether.
Additionally, on February 11, 2025, Adore expanded its application for provisional injunction to prohibit all music activities and all other incidental activities, including lyrics, composition, performance, and singing of NJZ, as well as advertising.
This means that Chairman Bang Si-hyuk put pressure on the officials of the complex concert' occurred shortly after the news was delivered, so it is presumed that the decision was taken as a retaliatory measure when the attempt to cancel the performance was neutralized.
Until just a few days ago, Odor continued to state its position on NJZ's independent activities, but did not disclose that its application for a provisional injunction was aimed at banning all entertainment activities.
This is a completely different attitude from the mass coverage of the fact at the time of the application for provisional injunction on January 6. On the surface, Audor is only taking issue with NZ's advertising activities or making excuses to prevent confusion between fans and advertisers, but it is actually asking the court to ban all of NZ's entertainment activities.
This is an attempt to infringe on the professional freedom of the NJZ, and at the same time appears intended to avoid public criticism by not disclosing it publicly.
The essence of the NZ is musical activity, and limiting it is to deny the value of its existence. In the end, Odor applied for a provisional injunction to block all activities in the NZ from the beginning.
I have endured continuous discrimination and unfair treatment within Hive. After the Tokyo Dome fan meeting in June last year, Hive has made clear that he will not take a long vacation and will not work for a long time, and has continuously attempted to undermine our values by making comments to reporters that disparage our performance. We didn't reveal it first, but such attempts continued even after the exclusive contract was terminated, and recently it has become more serious.
In the meantime, we have raised objections and complained to Audor several times, but even when he was an agency, he did not protect us, but rather sympathized with Hive or other labels or treated our words as false. Above all, none of the major activities plans for 2024 that we expected were implemented, causing enormous damage, and even after the exclusive contract was terminated, we are constantly interfering and harassing with advertising progress and visa issues.
We made a request for correction to Adore several times to maintain the exclusive contract relationship. However, Adore ignored all of this, and in the end, we had no choice but to decide to terminate the contract.
The trust relationship, which is a prerequisite for maintaining the exclusive contract, has long been broken due to the accumulation of significant non-compliance with Adore's obligations. In this situation, if the NZ has to work only through the door, normal entertainment activities are impossible, and they have to suffer mental pain that is too much to handle.
Adore knows this situation better than anyone else and is trying to block our activities by using various methods. We would like to inform you that various acts of obstruction, including provisional disposition, are an attempt to fundamentally halt our career as artists and are nothing more than one-sided harassment to extinguish us who want to legally terminate our exclusive contracts and continue our activities.
Such notice of termination is based on exclusive contractual law and civil law and is a common and general legal procedure. Therefore, it is a false claim for Adore or some organizations to raise their voices as if it is illegal or unjust for us to conduct our own activities after the notice of termination, and it is a ridiculous claim that only the artists should give up legal procedures and effects guaranteed by law.
We will faithfully deal with the provisional disposition and upcoming main lawsuit, and we would like to confirm the legality of the termination during the trial process once again.
I don't want anyone to go through an unfair case like ours again. Thank you.
rightlight@sportschosun.com
