Why Min Hee Jin Felt Betrayed By HYBE’s Bang Si Hyuk

on April 22nd the K-pop industry was shocked by reports of a power struggle between Hy and ador's CEO minhan the news saying that hyve had requested minhan to step down from her role circulated on the internet as more details emerged it was reported that Hyde found evidence suggesting minhan intended to leave and take adore and new jeans with her other accusations included attempts to tarnish hybe artists reputation and leaking confidential information about trainees including personal health details while hyp has their own side of the story minhan and adore do too and according to them hve is the guilty party in all of this shortly after the reports about the audit adore released an official statement in which they accused eyet of copying new genes they started by explaining hb's multi-label system saying that all the labels under them including a door can independently create music and pursue cultural diversity considering this they found it ironic that hibe was disregarding all the cultural achievements of new genes and subsequently adore then the statement went on to mention IET which debuted in March under bft lab even back then people online were claiming that the group's teaser pictures looked a lot like new jeans now adore publicly accused eyelid of copying new jeans hair makeup outfits choreography photography video and event appearances adore didn't blame be lift lab only as they said that bong shiuk who serves as hb's president produced iet's debut album and was behind the copying the company said hybe a leading K-pop company is blinded by short-term profits and copies successful cultural content without any hesitation producing banality instead of showing novelty then the statement went on to claim that the the copying hurt New jeene Image and made them the center of controversy so even though Hy and beff lab were the ones who created the situation new jeans and adore were the ones who were ultimately damaged by it according to adore the two labels being Affiliated doesn't give one label the right to copy another's Achievements not to mention adore hasn't given anyone permission to copy new jeans not even to hiy and bft lab because they don't want new jeans and iset to be associated in any way despite debuting under hybe they have no intention of tolerating any promotion that uses new jeans name like promoting eyelet as new jeans juniors in the statement adore said that they addressed the copying incident as well as a flurry of other issues to Hive however rather than taking action and admitting their mistake hyve allegedly made excuses and took their time preparing for a response then on April 22nd adore and minhan were hit with a sudden notice that the latter would be dismissed and suspended as a CEO with the excuse that she was harming ador's corporate value so while Minh Jin was trying to protect the Artistry of new jeans and the time and effort she and her team put into to making the group successful hve decided to cut her off in the end adore accused hve of media play and trying to turn the public against adore and minhan by feeding lies to the public they even raised a very serious question asking how can a legitimate protest to protect the cultural achievements of its artist new genes harm ador's interests or how can it become an Act of usurpation of ador's management rights they called out Hive be LIF lab and Bong shuk for not apologizing and thinking that the whole issue would be over if they managed to kick minhan out of hybe this statement caused quite a Ruckus online mostly people were mad at minhan for involving both new jeans and isid in this mess when the companies should have resolved this between themselves EET had already been dealing with a massive hate train and the last thing they needed was a door naming them in their statement as the reason for their conflict with hyve a Twitter user said minhan using eyelet as a shield from her own controversy is just unprofessional immature and disgusting the statement felt like Primary School drama blown out of proportion but in this case we do need to point out that it wasn't Minh Jin who made this issue public as she spoke about IIT only to reveal what was behind the feud between her and hb's Executives most importantly bong shiuk since the information about the contract termination and audit were already all over the Internet that's not even the most controversial thing about a door's statement though at the end of it minhan mentioned that they released it after discussing it with new jeans and their legal Representatives as they wanted to address any growing misunderstandings among fans and the public involving Nene's name in this and implying that the members also agreed that eyet was copying the group definitely has the potential to hurt the members in the long run this was probably done so she could get the support of new Jean's fans but it was still considered wildly unprofessional of her to do so however it seems like their name wasn't exactly used without a reason several media Outlets reported that the members parents were the first ones to rais the issue of iet's plagiarism after reading the reports the girl's parents apparently talked to adore since they wanted to fix things adore then reached out to Hy with the company saying they wanted to chat with new Jean's parents but the latter didn't seem impressed it seems like they consider Ed Hy not to be sincere in the end though and the parents eventually turned down the meeting neens also called out another part of her statement that felt a bit hypocritical adore mentioned that they didn't like how Hyde was promoting eyelet using new Jean's name and saying that they were new jeene Juniors however when new Jean's debuted there were a lot of media articles that referred to them as BTS Little Sisters yet minhan seemingly had no problem with the fact that they were being associated with another hyp group a viral post on the coup cited headlines from when new jeene debuted and mentioned Mii and Han's appearance in bts's permission to dance music video All In All mini Jin had only explained why the conflict with hyp had started but hadn't addressed the accusations against her and with her statement had only caused further damage to her and AD door's image the next day she did an interview where she actually talked about hb's claims against her something people thought she should have done in the first place on April 23rd ilgen Sports released their exclusive interview with minhen in which she called hbes claims that she was planning a coup ridiculous she denied meeting with any investors and stealing executive rights she explained because hybe has 80% Equity it is impossible for me to seize the management rights it is also impossible for a door to leave hybe without their consent but then why would hybe claim such a thing well according to minhan it's because she started bringing up the issues within the company a month ago she said that once she talked about the problems that arose after IET copied new jeans she was notified that Hyde was planning to terminate her contract as for the timing of HB statements minhen chocked it all up to media play since she claims it happened only four 4 days after she made an official Complaint to the company to her it didn't make any sense for Hyde to speak publicly of the audit before they even had the results and she believes that it was done on purpose as new jeans are having a comeback soon minhan also emphasized that money wasn't her motive for raising issues with hybe as she had claimed before she just felt that hbe was wrongly portraying her as trying to take over management rights she stressed she would never make such a mistake citing the 5050 case as an example after this interview people switched to minhan side but said that she should have explained this first and foremost neens understand where she came from especially knowing that she had put her Blood Sweat and Tears into making new jeans they also argued that Hyde might have just wanted her out of the company and leaked the story about the audit to the public so they could have a good reason to do it there's a theory going around that minhan might have found out something about hybe that she wasn't supposed to know and in response to it hybe came out with this audit story so that whatever hijan said the public wouldn't believe her there's no reason why a big corporation like hibe would make their issues so public if it wasn't to gain public favor but more things came out especially about minhan claims that this wasn't all about money it's alleged that the dispute between hybe and minhan actually started over stock options not the issue with eyelet and new jeans according to an anonymous source when hyve created a door in 2021 minhan got 15% of it as stock options but she thought it was too low due to high taxes even after hybe gave her more options in 2022 she still wasn't happy because taxes would take a big chunk of the benefits Hy then canceled the options last year and sold minhan stocks at low price because adore hadn't made a profit before 2023 making her the second biggest shareholder with 18% in 2022 adore lost 4 billion from operations and 3.2 billion overall but their attempts to make minhan happy apparently didn't work earlier this year Hy heard a tip that minhan might try to take over the company with a private Equity Fund manager and they allegedly tried to fix things quietly but the problem stuck around someone in the industry theorized that minhen might have seen the similarities between eyet and New jeene Concepts as a good excuse to act another rumor is that minhan dragged other groups names into the issue according to a yon hop news report that came out on April 23rd minhan claimed that other groups such as twws and Rise had copied new genes they also reported that an anonymous source revealed during an audit that minhan had spoken to an outsider about the hibe chairman suggesting he achieved success by copying her the article hints that since joining hbe minhan privately expressed the belief that BTS copied her this is where she lost most of her support despite the fact that these were just rumors from Anonymous sources that cannot be confirmed in any way but we need to be critical here and point out the obvious looking at this as an outsider it seems like hive's very poor attempt at media play reports coming out about minhan involving other groups and especially BTS can be just hi's tactic of turning the fandoms of said groups and neens against minhan the most so-called incriminating evidence against her was discovered on April 23d when Sega ilbo reported that Hyde discovered a document in ador's internal files which showed that there was an attempt to gain control over management rights the document includes sections titled objective which lists keep us Untouchable from hibe and final Escape as goals the media Outlet also mentions that ador's vice president downloaded a significant amount of hybe information before joining adore which was verified through computer logs the vice president confirmed it but claimed that the documents discovered by hybe were his private thoughts and worries and he hadn't shared them with anyone in a door management including minhan in addition to this hbes CEO Park giwan sent emails to the staff of bft lab adore and hybe he stated that they're conducting audits to address definitive attempts to take over the company it seems like they have internally reviewed some aspects and plan to investigate further during the audit and are planning to take strong action against those responsible they also claimed that the issues aren't related to iet's debut as minhan said because allegedly these plans were put in motion months ago not only that but the Korean media Outlets reported that minhan claims that Hyde didn't respond to her complaints about iet's debut were completely false hunky young reported that ador's vice president Shin dong Hoon sent their first protest email on April 3rd to hbes CEO Park gwan be lift lab's CEO Kim Taho and others in the email adore requested action against the choreography plagiarism and concept copying without their consent urging a quick response from hyve then on April 16th minhan went on to email hb's CEO bang shei huk scooter braa who's the CEO of hybe America and others and accused eyet of copying new jeans which she also did publicly she she questioned if hb's deliberate ignorance and refusal to apologize matched its founding principle of fighting against unfair practices in the entertainment industry she also blamed the company's management style which she thinks is the cause of all the conflict between subsidiaries reports also said that the email was cced to new Jean's parents who are apparently aware of all that's going on then tanasia said that Hive sent her a response on April 22nd the day before her deadline and it was a six-page email but despite it being true it doesn't change the fact that hi purposefully dragged the issue on and took a long time to actually react to minhan claims and instead of discussing it with her further they asked for her termination so to paint mhan as this evil force in this whole ordeal is very wrong it was confirmed on April 24th that she declined to return hb's requested company assets like laptops the other adore Executives including the vice president all returned their laptops but she hasn't responded to the request yet even though the deadline has passed this in addition to her lack of response to the audit questionnaire has raised public suspicious as people are wondering whether she's hiding something some assume that she might have plans and concepts for new jeans saved in her laptop which is why she could be refusing to hand it over but that theory was shot down quickly people explained that since this is an audit the creative team won't be the ones checking the laptops so she can't exactly refus to show its contents not to mention that the laptop is a company asset so she has to hand it over no matter the contents despite hb's claims that minhan didn't respond to the audit questionnaire the latter said otherwise on April 24th she briefly mentioned she finished the questionnaire on time and sent it to HDE contradicting Hy saying she wasn't responding she also mentioned she couldn't reveal what's in the questionnaire as hybe warned against sharing it saying they would take legal action but even if she didn't want to share anything the media didn't shy away from saying more about what was found on April 24th Channel a news reported about hb's audit on a door saying that the company had found a document called project 1945 suggesting that minhen was planning to make a door independent from HDE the 1945 possibly refers to the year that South Korea was liberated from Japan the document itself allegedly talks about lawsuits and media plans and even though they didn't show the document to anyone the staff members apparently mentioned it to Channel A news in response to these allegations adore spoke to Channel A Korea and denied hb's claims directly accusing them of lying they said that the documents were private but didn't matter as apparently they were leaked before hb's audit was completed and weren't even important they said those were simply something like personal Doodles with no possibility of being realized the document was information that had already been leaked to HDE before the audit results even came out this completely refutes hb's claims that the document was found during the audit the biggest update yet came on April 25th when minhan held a press conference to address all the accusations that were made by hybe to tarnish her reputation and in a shocking turn of events she revealed its all media play from hb's side according to the many things she exposed she said that the claims that she was responsible for the downfall of source music and G friend were unfounded and completely untrue she did work with Source music to make a new girl group but then established a door and took the trainees who then became the new jeans members with her so she in fact did not steal the company's debut group she observed that Source music wasn't attracting much attention so she took the initiative to promote auditions under her own name labeling it as minhan new girl group auditions she began to see a significant increase in talented candidates which is how she discovered Han Danielle Heron and hiin she also talked about how aore came to be and it was apparently because bang shiuk didn't like where she was taking new jeans because even though she had ideas bang shiuk didn't quite approve of them new jeans was really important for hybe as they were supposed to be the first girl group under hive's new system minhan expressed feeling let down because many members and trainees joined thinking they would be in hive's first girl group hean parents were especially mad because they joined hybe not just Source music she stated that although she managed everything related to new jeans including songs and production hybe initially prevented her and the new jeans members from leaving Source music this made minhan question H's ability to handle the debut of two girl groups simultaneously so to Rush new jeans's debut she tried to persuade bang shiuk to allow her to establish a door she argued that if new jeans remained at source music their debut would be significantly delayed as they could only debut after L seraphim became a stable group this conference really revealed a lot and it seems like the mess and hibe is bigger than we ever thought

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Published: Tue Apr 30 2024