Yoon Il-sang Criticizes Adults Behind NewJeans Dispute

By GyeEun, Lee

May 03, 2025

Yoon Il-sang Criticizes Adults Behind NewJeans Dispute



Composer Yoon Il-sang opened up about the group NewJeans incident.

On the 2nd, Yoon Il-sang's channel 'Yoon Il-sang's speech! A video of 'Yoon Il-sang EP.07 Honseol' was released to reveal the NewJeans incident and behind-the-scenes stories of the music industry.

Yoon Il-sang "He has been paying more attention to protecting the rights and interests of artists than anyone else. How is the NewJeans situation that you see?When asked "Let's talk about it?"After being embarrassed for a while, he stressed that "in short, the contract is no joke"."




Then "You shouldn't expose an artist to danger by saying you love him. I don't think it's really affectionate. I'm heartbroken for the members of NewJeans. You may regret your actions in the future. But it won't be visible until a long time later. Adults should be helpful. I think the adults next to them handle the future of their friends for their own benefit. In any case, the contract is no joke."

Yoon Il-sang also said, `Production is a human business. It's not a goods business. There is an implication to take responsibility for the person's life instead. "But since it's for-profit and you have to make money, there's a gyereuk that comes from it. belong to the inner circle If you look at it, you can compare it with the mind that it seems like that company is doing better. When you look at big companies and small companies, big companies will be good at marketing or PR. However, there is a weakness that only this singer cannot be cared for because there are too many singers. On the other hand, small producers may not be able to market or PR well, but they can go all the way with singers and become a case of growing together. We value the artist."

Yoon Il-sang Criticizes Adults Behind NewJeans Dispute
Yoon Il-sang said "It's not that big companies don't value artists, but it's a different touch. Which company is right is your choice, and Newzins has already chosen it that way. And if you've written a contract, it's right to implement it first. And then it's also a way to claim rights. I think it would be nice to think about criticizing Korean music during the interview" he said. Also "I think adults who expose artists too much to make them speak... I don't want to curse the members. If you want a real artist, I don't think you're going to make them say that. For example, if Brown girl was in that situation, I'd say 'I'll tell her for her. How hard is it to have the members talk about everything. It's a pity. Isn't that why there's a company? The company does not exist if they do all the interviews and arrangements of positions. But it's a pity that I've denied the company on my own."




Meanwhile, NewJeans held an emergency press conference with former CEO of Adore Min Hee-jin and Hive in November last year to declare the termination of the exclusive contract with Adore, claiming that Adore violated the exclusive contract. Then, Ador filed a lawsuit to confirm the validity of the exclusive contract with NewJeans, saying, "We made an inevitable decision because we needed to confirm to the artist as well as to various stakeholders that the exclusive contract was not terminated lightly by one party's argument.'

Additionally, Ador filed a provisional injunction against NewJeans for the preservation of agency status and prohibition of signing advertising contracts. The Seoul Central District Court's Civil Agreement Department 50 (Chief Judge Kim Sang-hoon) cited this, and NewJeans filed an objection to the court's independent ban on activities, but the court rejected it. The members immediately appealed and suspended all entertainment activities.

NewJeans later said in a foreign interview that `South Korea seems to want to turn us into revolutionaries", "Disappointed by the court decision, we did not expect the problems of the K-pop industry to change overnight" Controversy arose over criticism of the K-pop industry.






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