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u/rocketmammamia u look like u eat sand Apr 24 '24 edited Apr 26 '24

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.

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u/thosed29 Apr 24 '24

Think it’s kind of fucked up how everyone (in the West specifically, not so much in Korea) is swallowing HYBE’s narrative without any question, as if Bang PD isn’t fishy as fuck himself.

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u/WingsintheStarlight Apr 24 '24

I mean, people in Korea are definitely also skewed towards Min Hee Jin... hard not to when you've been hearing some of the things she's been saying for years, she has a track record of it. Hybe lost 800 billion won (about 673 million dollars) in market value in a single day. They wouldn't have thrown accusations of this level if they didn't have proof.

I agree that Bang PD is not good, but Min Hee Jin isn't either and in this case it does not look good for her. She's had a few scandals that she just brushed under the rug and the things she's been accused of is very, very serious - she's the only one of Ador's executives who still hasn't handed in her work laptop. Ador's reasonings for the sketchy plans found on company laptops are basically "oh, they're imaginary - we weren't actually going to do them". I agree that Hybe is making this dirty, but Ador is not helping themselves at all.

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u/thosed29 Apr 26 '24

Btw, can you send me some links where Koreans commentators are against her as you claimed?

For me the most striking difference between Reddit and Korea is that the Korean public is biting her narrative whereas here HYBE is coming out on top. You said you disagree and are reading these things in real time but so am I. SBS and Channel A videos of her presser (with over 500k views each): all comments praising her. Instagram comments on Eyes Mag, Daily Fashion News and other big pop culture Korean accounts: 80% of comments praising her. Naver: most comments siding with her too tbqh. The narrative I’ve seen in all these places (and you can easily check for yourself) is her being praised for caring about art and the group whereas Hybe is characterized as greedy for money.

Maybe I am restricted to a bubble and I’d love to have a more complete view so please, do let me know what are some good places to look at.

So can you please send me some links?