- Yet another Korean lawyer has offered his opinion on the NewJeans debacle.
- Attorney Jo Myeon-sik, senior partner of the law firm Gate, believes it was NewJeans’ intent to force ADOR’s hand into filing a lawsuit to terminate the contract first.
- His opinion echoes that of many other legal experts who have conjectured on the claims made by NewJeans at their emergency press conference.
Amidst the chaos of NewJeans’ declaration that their contract with ADOR Entertainment has been terminated, several legal experts have analyzed the situation and weighed in on the matter. Among them is Jo Myeon-sik, attorney and senior partner of the law firm Gate. On the 30th of November, Jo expressed his own opinions on the matter on his social media account.
Jo first recounted, “NewJeans is demanding violations to the contract be corrected within the correction period, and afterwards notified ADOR the contract has been terminated on the grounds the violations to the contract were not corrected within the given timeframe. However, they also said they have no intentions of filing an injunction or a separate lawsuit against ADOR.”
“NewJeans is claiming a contract is terminated by a mere notification,” he explained, “but even in the case where there has been a violation of the terms of the contract by the other party, the contract is not immediately terminated. Rather, one must set a correction period, request corrections of those violations, and in the case those corrections have not been made within the requested period, then the offended party gains the legal right of contract termination.”
Jo continued, “NewJeans notified [ADOR] of their contract termination based on this legal right of termination…What NewJeans wants most [in this situation] is for ADOR to make a notification of contract termination and claim damages on the grounds that NewJeans has breached the contract by unilaterally notifying them of the termination of the contract.”
He then went on to predict that, “ADOR will make astronomical claims for damages, but there is absolutely no cause for worry. It is unlikely that the court judges will rule an amount that would shock the world.”
He concluded his statement with, “This is what NewJeans is hoping will happen. From ADOR’s perspective, the agency is now caught in a bind and will be forced to file a lawsuit against its will. In cases such as these, there is no winning or losing on the basis of legal logic.”
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