K-pop group NewJeans’s contract omitted rights to ‘sleep and free choice’

New report finds that record label Ador stripped child protections from group’s contracts when they were minors

The superstar K-pop group NewJeans signed restrictive record label contracts that waived their right to “sleep, rest and free choice”. (Photo by The Chosunilbo JNS/Imazins via Getty Images)

The superstar K-pop group NewJeans signed restrictive record label contracts that waived their right to “sleep, rest and free choice”.

A new report from the New York Times found that the contracts were signed when the members of the record-breaking girl group were aged 14 to 17.