Even many superfans will tell you that K-pop's pageantry has often masked a troubled business model, where impressionable young trainees commit to a life run entirely by their agencies. Signing on the ...
NewJeans, an internationally successful K-pop girl group whose members’ careers have been stalled amid a contract dispute with their label, lost a court battle to terminate the contract with ADOR, a ...
The band’s label said it had dropped one of the girl group’s five members. NewJeans’s legal battle has drawn public scrutiny of the K-pop industry. By Jin Yu Young The K-pop band NewJeans plunged ...