Nine THE BOYZ members won a court injunction against ONE HUNDRED
The group said it had not been properly paid since July 2025. The court found enough substance to pause nine contracts.
What happened
Nine members of THE BOYZ, Sangyeon, Jacob, Younghoon, Hyunjae, Juyeon, Kevin, Q, Sunwoo, and Eric, notified ONE HUNDRED that they were terminating their contracts on February 10, 2026. New chose to remain with the agency, and the members said they respected that decision.
The nine alleged that proper settlements had not been paid for activities since July 2025 and that the company failed to provide required financial data. ONE HUNDRED rejected the termination and argued that it had paid large signing bonuses based on the expectation of a full-group contract period.
What the court did
On April 24, 2026, Korean outlets reported that the Seoul Central District Court granted the nine members’ request for an injunction suspending the validity of their exclusive contracts. Their attorney said the court found that the agency had violated its obligations concerning settlement payments and financial information.
This was an injunction, not the final end of every related lawsuit. It still mattered immediately because the nine members were no longer required to keep working under the disputed contracts while the broader case continued.
The lineup problem
The result created one of K-pop’s stranger status charts. Ten members still identified with THE BOYZ after Haknyeon’s departure, but nine were outside ONE HUNDRED’s active contractual control while New remained. The group could remain a group socially and artistically even while its contracts split into separate lanes. K-pop databases hate ambiguity. Real life keeps providing it.