{
  "id": 18341347,
  "title": "K-pop group NewJeans’s contract omitted rights to ‘sleep and free choice’ – report",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/05/k-pop-group-newjeanss-contract-omitted-rights-to-sleep-and-free",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-05T17:08:29.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Guardian",
    "slug": "the-guardian",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/nov/05/k-pop-group-newjeans-contract"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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”. 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.…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}