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HYBE, Min Hee-jin spar over alleged evidence of plans to “seize control” of NewJeans agency ADOR
nme.comHYBE has claimed that it has found evidence that ADOR CEO Min Hee-jin is trying to “seize control” of the K-pop agency, while the latter has described such a move as “impossible”.HYBE and Min Hee-jin have been in an increasingly public feud and power struggle over ADOR, the K-pop agency that’s best known as home to K-pop girl group NewJeans.
The dispute was made public on Monday (April 22), after South Korean media reported that HYBE had launched an investigation against Min over alleged plans to take ownership of the label.HYBE CEO Park Ji-won has since claimed that it has discovered evidence that Min and other ADOR execs had plans to “seize control of the company” in an email to employees, per Yonhap News Agency, adding that HYBE would “take appropriate actions after confirming more [of the truth] through this audit”.Park added that HYBE’s current top priority is on “keeping its artists and other members safe”.
The CEO also urged the management of NewJeans to “exercise extra caution to prevent the artists from being affected by this incident”.In his email, Park also claimed that the alleged takeover plans were “set in motion long before [K-pop girl group] ILLIT made their debut”.
Notably, Min Hee-jin had previously accused HYBE of copying the concepts and elements from NewJeans to create ILLIT, saying that her actions to “preserve” the achievements of NewJeans were being “twisted [into] attempts to usurp its management rights”.In a separate interview with South Korean media, per CNA, Min also claimed that she has never “met with any investor to take over management rights of ADOR”.
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