They touched on some parts of HYBE’s internal document.
Koreaboo
November 13th, 2024
It was reported by Yonhap News that NewJeans served a certificate of contents to ADOR on November 13, 2024. The certificate stated that if “the company does not accept their requests, their exclusive contract would be terminated.”
A certificate of contents is commonly used in Korea for claims for damages and notification of contract terminations. It is a document that denotes gains and losses, and changes in claims and debt-related performance matters between individuals and companies. It needs to be certified by the post office.
According to officials in the industry, NewJeans sent the document using their legal names, Kim Minji, Hanni Pham, Danielle Marsh, Kang Haerin, and Lee Hyein. They requested that ADOR respond to their requests that were made in accordance with ADOR’s alleged violation of their exclusive contract and rectify them within 14 days of receipt.
Yonhap News published a page of the document.
A portion of the document touched on HYBE’s recently revealed internal documents which contained negative plans and opinions about NewJeans.
Title: Request to rectify violations of the exclusive contract.
1. We wish for ADOR’s development. The members of ADOR’s group NewJeans consisting of Minji, Hanni, Danielle, Haerin, and Hyein (to be addressed as ‘NewJeans’ moving forward) requests that ADOR rectify the violations of the exclusive contract, and that through this document, the opinions of NewJeans as to be stated below, will be made known. We hope that ADOR rectifies all of the stated violations within 14 days of receipt of this document.
2. The important parts of the violations ADOR has committed with regards to the exclusive contract has been summarized as below.
A. We hope that as NewJeans’ management, action will be taken as per necessary against HYBE’s decision of “throwing away ‘New’ and starting a whole new thing.” Recently, through the audit, it was confirmed that HYBE’s internal report contained a statement that they “had been plagued by “New-I-LE” for a few days, but they can throw ‘New’ away and start a whole new thing…” [redacted]
Certificate of Contents
The details of the members’ requests were not made known to the public. The members further state that there have been baseless rumors about their families, to which they will be taking legal action against, should it slander NewJeans. You can read more about the relevant part of HYBE’s internal report below.
Newly Released HYBE Internal Documents Show Plans To “Throw Away NewJeans”