Article: New Jeans Minji, “It’s all lies and excuses”… ADOR’s certified mail reply [X Issue]
Source: Xports News
ADOR‘s certified mail response to New Jeans has been revealed.
On the 28th, Yonhap News TV revealed the 26-page response sent by ADOR to New Jeans via certified mail. In the response, ADOR stated that the contract with New Jeans is valid until July 31, 2029.
ADOR stated, “It’s regretful that you planned and held a press conference to terminate the exclusive contract without sufficient review, even before receiving a response to the certified mail. ADOR, as a party to the exclusive contract, did not violate the contract, and unilaterally claiming that trust was broken cannot be grounds for termination. The exclusive contract between ADOR and the members of New Jeans is still valid. Therefore, we ask that you continue to work with ADOR in the future as you have done so far. We have requested several meetings with the artists, but it has not been possible. We hope that even now, you will open your hearts and meet and have a sincere conversation. ADOR will do its best to support the activities of its artist, New Jeans, and help the members grow further as global artists.“
According to the report, regarding the statement in HYBE’s internal industry trend report that “its something that can be done by throwing away New Jeans and starting anew,” ADOR stated, “it was written by HYBE and not ADOR. It was not something we decided nor instructed specific actions.”
In addition, regarding the request to take action against the manager of Belift Lab who told Hanni to “ignore,” ADOR said that it was a matter involving an employee of another company and stated, “We thought we should take necessary action however without damaging the image of artists including Hanni.”
They also explained that they objected to the inappropriate remarks made by HYBE PR reps and demanded measures to prevent recurrence. In response to the request to take all measures to guarantee New Jeans’ activities, ADOR pointed out that they had planned a domestic fan meeting, regular album release, and a world tour next year but the artist had continued to refuse discussions.
In particular, in response to New Jeans’ request to reinstate former ADOR CEO Min Hee-jin who has since left ADOR, they stated, “Maintaining a specific person’s position as CEO is within the purview of ADOR’s Board of Directors management judgement. We made efforts to respect the artists’ wishes and allow former CEO Min to continue producing.”
New Jeans held an emergency press conference earlier on the 28th and declared termination of their contract with ADOR. In particular, Minji stated that ADOR’s certified mail reply was expected to arrive the next day even though the deadline of the corrective action request was midnight that day and accused ADOR of insincerity. Minji stated, “They had no interest in sending the certified mail timely, all they did was make up lies and excuses. This kind of time-wasting and evasive response is their attitude toward us.”
However, it’s being reported that the certified mail to New Jeans was sent around 7pm, an hour before the start of New Jeans’ press conference at 8:30pm.
Additional source(s): Sports Chosun, News1
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