🚨HYBE shareholders are telling Bang Si-hyuk to get on his knees and apologize to Min Hee-jin, bring her back to produce NewJeans, and apologize to Danielle.
They’re also criticizing HYBE for wasting shareholders’ money on legal fees.
Seems like everybody is sick of them
Cultural Critic Kim Sung-soo:
From my perspective, what happened was deeply unfair.
As I see it, Min Hee-jin was not only ADOR’s CEO—she was also NewJeans’ executive producer.
Attempting to remove Min Hee-jin, combined with NewJeans becoming far more successful than anyone had anticipated, may actually have become the very thing that worked against them.
One reason is that the amount HYBE would ultimately have had to pay Min Hee-jin became extraordinarily large.
On top of that, behind NewJeans stood HYBE’s multi-label system, headed by Chairman Bang Si-hyuk.
Within that system was another group created by Chairman Bang.
There are suspicions that, because NewJeans had grown into such an enormous brand—one that even that group could not rival—plans were made within the company to somehow control or diminish NewJeans.
Those suspicions exist.
However, Chairman Bang Si-hyuk, ADOR, and HYBE consistently framed the matter as:
“This is simply a dispute between companies.”
Or,
“Another company tried to steal corporate secrets.”
In other words, the very framework through which the public was encouraged to view this controversy positioned NewJeans and Min Hee-jin not as victims, but as perpetrators.
That’s why the entire issue became so complicated and tangled.
Yet, if you look at everything that has happened since then, I believe NewJeans have been victims throughout.
Likewise, I believe Min Hee-jin is also a victim.
At the same time, she’s someone who has refused to surrender and has continued resisting an enormous corporation.
That’s how I see the situation.
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“Behind the Growth of the Korean Wave… ‘The Leak of NewJeans Hanni’s Visa Information… Why Did It Happen?’” (Telephone Interview)
🔗 https://t.co/Te0GyJ76sq
by Reporter Kwon Ji-young
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📂Read the full interview in English:
https://t.co/NGeok04DSv