LOONA members Vivi and Hyunjin reportedly file lawsuits to suspend their contracts with Blockberry Creative

LOONA members Vivi and Hyunjin have reportedly filed a lawsuit to suspend their exclusive contracts with Blockberry Creative.

JTBC News It was reported earlier today (February 3) that the two members had filed for an injunction to suspend their contracts with the embattled agency – which would mean that all 11 members of the girl group (who in November ) has filed to exit its contracts with Blockberry Creative.

gave JTBC News The report claims that Vivi and Hyunjin have a “high chance” of getting their injunctions, as the two members reportedly have the same contract terms as Hyejin, Kim Lip, Jinsol and Chori. The members successfully obtained an injunction to suspend their contracts with Blockberry Creative last month.

Neither Vivi and Hyunjin, nor Blockberry Creative, have commented on the report at the time of publication.

Should Vivi and Hyunjin receive a decree terminating their contracts, Haseul, Yeojin, Yves, Gowon and Olivia Hye will be the only members of LOONA under the management of BlockBerry Creative. The five members sought the same injunction in January as the four successful members, but were denied because they had allegedly modified parts of their contracts with the agency in the past.

Earlier this week, the Korea Entertainment Management Association (KEMA) revealed that Blockberry Creative had requested both KEMA and the Korea Entertainment Producers Association to suspend former Luna singer Cho’s entertainment activities in the country in December 2022. .

The agency’s petition claimed that Chu had “molested.[ed]”with and allegedly” violation[ed] Management contract with the agency after signing a new contract with a different agency called BY4M Studio in 2021.

In response to the request, KEMA requested Chu’s attendance at its Reward and Punishment Committee. Chuu’s legal counsel responded with his intention to participate in the committee “to verify the facts about Blockberry Creative’s claims and … conduct a fair investigation of the case,” as translated. Soompy..

Blockberry Creative later confirmed that it had indeed filed the petition regarding Chuu and also revealed that “a petition to ban the entertainment activities of the following four people, Heejin, Kim Lip, Jinsoul, and Choerry There is a plan to put together a similar but separate petition committee. Good.”

While the four members have yet to respond to BlackBerry’s statement at the time of writing, Cho has responded to the agency via a brief statement on his personal Instagram account. In it, she claimed that “slanderous articles based on false reports have gone too far” and that she did not know about the company BY4M in December 2021, per the translation. Soompy..

LOONA was previously set to release a new record titled ‘The Origin Album: 0’ on January 3rd through Blackberry Creative. ‘The Origin Album: 0’ would have marked their first record as an 11-member group, but its release was postponed “indefinitely” because “various concerns about the status of the members have not been resolved.”