On the 21st of this month, the girl group NewJeans (NJZ) was judged by the court that the members of NewJeans are still under the management of the agency ADOR, and therefore cannot carry out independent activities. As soon as the judgment was made, the statement sent by NewJeans to Time magazine was also made public. NewJeans said that the group will become revolutionaries of Kpop and mentioned that they were disappointed with the court's judgment.

Due to the court ruling to ｇｒａｎｔ a provisional injunction, the independent activities of NewJeans members were hindered, and they also stopped NJZ activities. Recently, NewJeans accepted an interview with BBC News Korea and released a video of "The reason why NewJeans stopped NJZ activities."

In the video, Hanni said: "Every decision we made in the past year was made after a long discussion internally. Frankly speaking, we feel uncomfortable talking about this topic all the time because it involves the stories of other teams, and we don't want to affect them, and there is no reason or need to affect them. If we don't speak out our thoughts and feelings publicly, people won't know the truth and will only believe what the media reports." Then, Min Chi also added: "Every time we try to speak out, many media will report our stories, which makes us feel scared and makes me worry about my future life."

The production team then asked, "In this case, some people say that it is the adults who are influencing you. How do you think about the legal weight and make decisions?" Hanni responded, "I think that because we are young, people underestimate our efforts in this matter. They always say easily: "They are still young" and "They can't make decisions by themselves", but this does not mean that we don't take this matter seriously, nor does it mean that we don't think deeply about it. We always say to each other: "If any one of us doesn't want to, we won't do this." The five of us must reach a consensus before we can make a decision."

Danielle also talked about her own state of mind: "In 2024, when I was experiencing all of this personally, I tried to hide all my feelings silently, suppress my emotions, and ignore what was happening around me. Because when all of this started, we were preparing to return, but at a certain moment, my emotions reached a critical point, almost exploding, and I was very painful in my heart."

Danielle mentioned, “I expected a different outcome, but everyone who saw the news was shocked.” Haru said, “Some people may think that we are famous enough to do and say whatever we want. But that is not the case. We have been patient for a long time, and only recently have we finally mustered up the courage to speak out about the injustices we have experienced. However, from a social perspective, the current situation is not good for us. But because of this, I think it is just a proof of the problem. It really took a lot of courage for us to stand up and speak out.”

Danielle emphasized in particular: "We just want to continue working. We don't want our beloved career to be hindered, and we don't want lies and misunderstandings to affect us." Hanni also added: "What we fear most is that we may not be able to continue this job in the future. This is why we are still working hard to move forward, but this fear always exists in our hearts. We can't predict the future, and we may face a situation where we can no longer move, which is what we least want to see."

After the interview was exposed, many netizens also said, "You are shocked to see that the false injunction was approved? That is more shocking; do you really think that the contract will be terminated because of those reasons...?", "Who do you think you are? You will know when you pay the penalty", "I don't know if they are facing the reality now. Although it is too late, it will get worse or stop here. It depends on them", "The innocent image is gone, and now people only think they are calculating", "Criticizing in foreign media Attacking Korea and K-POP, and still talking about revolution, it's really speechless. I hope they can understand that the word "revolution" is not used to describe this kind of behavior. Moreover, what they should do is to prove themselves through the law and win the case. Saying that they are disappointed with foreign media, but not respecting the court's decision, this is the real public opinion war", "Is there no one with intelligence among the five members? Well, if there was, it wouldn't have come to this", "Wake up..." The response was quite heated.