LOONA members Vivi and Hyunjin have reportedly filed lawsuits to droop their unique contracts with Blockberry Inventive.
JTBC Information reported earlier at present (February 3) that each members have filed for an injunction to droop their contracts with the embattled company – which might imply that every one 11 members of the lady group (which was a 12-member group earlier than the firing of Chuu in November) have filed to exit their contracts with Blockberry Inventive.
The JTBC Information report claims that Vivi and Hyunjin have “a excessive likelihood” of securing their injunction, as each members allegedly have comparable contract phrases as Heejin, Kim Lip, Jinsoul and Choerry. These members efficiently secured injunctions to droop their contracts with Blockberry Inventive final month.
Neither Vivi and Hyunjin, nor Blockberry Inventive, have commented on the report on the time of publication.
Ought to Vivi and Hyunjin safe their injunction to terminate their contracts, Haseul, Yeojin, Yves, Gowon and Olivia Hye would be the solely LOONA members remaining below BlockBerry Inventive’s administration. The 5 members requested the identical injunction because the 4 profitable members in January, however have been rejected as they’d reportedly amended elements of their contracts with the company previously.
Earlier this week, the Korea Leisure Administration Affiliation (KEMA) revealed that Blockberry Inventive had petitioned each KEMA and Korea Leisure Producers Affiliation in December 2022 to droop former LOONA singer Chuu’s leisure actions within the nation.
The company’s petition claimed Chuu had “tamper[ed]” with and allegedly “violat[ed] the administration contract” with the company after she allegedly moved to signal a brand new contract with a distinct company named BY4M Studio in 2021.
In response to the petition, KEMA requested Chuu’s attendance at its Reward and Punishment committee. Chuu’s authorized counsel responded with their intent to attend the committee “to substantiate the information relating to Blockberry Inventive’s claims and… examine the case pretty”, as translated by Soompi.
Blockberry Inventive later confirmed that it had certainly filed the petition relating to Chuu and in addition revealed plans to submit an identical however separate petition to “prohibit the leisure actions of the next 4 individuals, Heejin, Kim Lip, Jinsoul, and Choerry, to the committee as nicely”.
Whereas these 4 members have but to reply to Blockberry’s assertion on the time of writing, Chuu has responded to the company by a short assertion on her private Instagram account. In it, she claimed that “slanderous articles based mostly on false stories have gone too far” and that she was not conscious of the corporate BY4M in December 2021, per translations by Soompi.
LOONA have been beforehand set to launch a brand new file titled ‘The Origin Album: 0’ by way of Blockberry Inventive on January 3. ‘The Origin Album: 0’ would have marked their first file as an 11-member group, however its launch has been “postponed indefinitely” as “varied issues concerning the members’ state of affairs usually are not resolved.”