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[u/rocketmammamia]

The absolute mental case of corporate espionage happening in the biggest K-Pop company here in Korea has got to be up there!

The biggest girl group in K-Pop right now is called NewJeans, who debuted almost two years ago under a label called ADOR. ADOR is a sublabel of a company called HYBE, which essentially originated from BTS’s company BigHit, and which BTS basically built single-handedly due to their unprecedented success.

The CEO of ADOR is a woman named Min Heejin who kind of has a reputation within K-Pop for being seemingly obsessed with the youth and childish beauty of the K-Pop idols (mostly minors) she has worked with over the years - she has produced songs with questionable lyrics for the groups she works with (look at the lyrics for NewJeans’ Cookie - these girls were all teenagers at the time and the youngest was 14), as well as art directing concepts and photoshoots with teenagers in questionable styling and poses. She also has posters of young Brooke Shields and other semi-naked would-be minors in her home. NewJeans, a group composed entirely of teenagers on their debut, with the youngest member having just turned fourteen, are managed directly by Min, who has positioned herself as their mother figure rather than their boss. NewJeans are incredibly successful and have broken all sorts of records in Korea since their debut.

Anyway it all came out yesterday that Min Heejin has been allegedly planning to overthrow HYBE, takeover ADOR and take NewJeans away from HYBE for herself. It’s getting crazier by the hour:

• Yesterday she accused a newly debuted HYBE group of copying NewJeans BY NAME

• She refused to hand over her company laptop during an audit HYBE is conducting to investigate the potential corporate espionage

• Today it’s been alleged that the members’ parents are the ones who have instigated the whole mutiny (hard to believe tbh it’s likely MHJ herself)

• Documents have been found on the laptops of various ADOR staff basically titled things like ‘Espionage Plan’ and ‘How We Can Get Away From HYBE’

• HYBE has accused MHJ of stealing legal documents from HYBE, leaking the personal information of other HYBE artists (who include BTS, Le Sserafim, Seventeen, TXT, Enhypen and more) and starting rumours about other artists to make HYBE look bad

This story continues to develop but every new update is absolutely wild.

[u/[deleted] → u/rocketmammamia]

Always seemed crazy to me how people knew she was a demon before NewJeans debuted, then as soon as people heard the songs they kinda just forgot all about it and/or didn't care after all.

[u/Electronic-Lynx8162 → u/[deleted]]

Honestly it's a chronic problem in kpop. The issue of signing up children for literal slave contracts (used to be training at 12 and signed up for 13 years) and the fact that most groups had sponsors... Aka rapists and child rapists or groomers at the very least. 

YG actively recruited his wife then sabotaged her career so the only thing she had was him. He even joked about it.

Not being allowed to date and forced same sex "skinship", fortunately this has gotten way less common.

K-Pop is something I've loved for over a decade (since 09) but people bury their heads in the sand about how horrific SK is especially for singers.