The court's provisional decision prohibiting the members of the girl group NewJeans from independent activities has been virtually finalized as the members did not file a reconsideration procedure.
According to the legal community on the 25th, five members of NewJeans did not submit a reconsideration appeal regarding the provisional decision to 'preserve the agency's status and prohibit the signing of advertisement contracts.'
A reconsideration can be filed within seven days from the notice of the decision, but since there was no submission by the deadline the previous day (the 24th), the effect has been confirmed. The NewJeans members will face restrictions on future individual activities or the signing of advertisement contracts.
Previously, the 25th Civil Division-2 of the Seoul High Court (Director General Hwang Byung-ha, Jeong Jong-gwan, Lee Gyun-yong) dismissed the appeal filed by the members of NewJeans on the 17th. The first-instance court, the 50th Civil Division of the Seoul Central District Court (Chief Judge Kim Sang-hoon), also stated in March that there was insufficient evidence to support that 'there was a breach of important obligations under the exclusive contract by the creditor (ADOR), or that the mutual trust that forms the basis of the exclusive contract had collapsed to an irreparable extent.'
The NewJeans side has subsequently filed objections and appeals, but all were dismissed. By giving up on the reconsideration, the court's ruling will remain unchanged.
The court has also upheld last month's request for indirect enforcement filed by ADOR, deciding that if NewJeans conducts independent activities, each member must pay 1 billion won for each violation.
Meanwhile, the lawsuit filed by ADOR against NewJeans to confirm the validity of the exclusive contract is currently in the first-instance procedure.