Q. What does Danielle truly want?
Atty. Jeong Jong-chae:
It may be nothing more than a hope like the coming spring, but Danielle simply wants to stand once again as a complete NewJeans together with Minji, Hanni, Haerin, and Hyein, singing and dancing before Bunnies and fans just as they used to.
Even if that dream is realistically impossible, it is still the dream Danielle holds.
If what HYBE truly wanted were compensation for damages, it would not spend years pursuing lawsuits seeking contractual penalties that would leave Danielle penniless after prolonged litigation and, because of ADOR’s actions, unable ever to work in the K-pop industry again—making recovery impossible even if it won.
A far more financially rational choice would be to allow Danielle to return to NewJeans, promote again as a complete group, and offset any damages against the settlement payments she would receive through those activities.
The fact that the HYBE Group chose instead to pursue litigation seeking astronomical contractual penalties that offer no meaningful economic benefit even if successful cannot reasonably be explained except as an attempt to use Danielle as a test case, send a warning signal to artists, and thereby strengthen its control over them.
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I think we were pretty average last season and the decline had begun to show. We were absolutely carried by Foden and Rodri when it mattered. They can never take that away from Phil