HYBE is facing deeper legal trouble as an alleged confidential document surfaced online, revealing suspected fund misuse in a ...

NewJeans’ legal team says members may return to ADOR, but only if agency is restored to pre-audit state. Mediation with NJZ ...

The Seoul HQ of K-pop company HYBE has been raided twice in the last week, first by officials investigating fraud allegations ...

HYBE and ADOR have been accused of harassing NewJeans members through “unethical and inhumane” means since they severed ties with their agency last month, the group said in a press release on ...

The five members of NewJeans said Thursday that they are willing to return to their agency ADOR on one condition: that it be ...

The legal standoff between K-pop girl group NewJeans and their agency ADOR continues to escalate, with both sides presenting ...

But NewJeans says Hybe and Ador have recovered their investments and then some. And on top of calling out Ador’s alleged mistreatment of behind-the-scenes professionals amid the termination tiff ...

NewJeans was helmed under ADOR, a newly created subsidiary under the HYBE Labels umbrella that includes BIGHIT Music (home to BTS and TOMORROW X TOGETHER), PLEDIS Entertainment (SEVENTEEN and ...

Among them, Hybe alleged the Ador CEO gaslit NewJeans, shared trade secrets and secretly met with outside investors. Min accused the company of attempting to chart-rig one of NewJeans’s albums.

HYBE label Belift Lab disputes the former ADOR CEO's claims that ILLIT's debut too closely mirrored NewJeans.

The NewJeans controversy was first made public in April 2024, when HYBE said it would audit ADOR, then under CEO Min Hee-jin, the producer of NewJeans. HYBE was concerned over rumors that Min was ...

NewJeans, launched by K-pop auteur Min Hee-jin in 2022 under her sub-label ADOR, has been a massive success for Hybe.