According to Korean media, international supermodel Gigi Hadid recently visited Seoul to take her fashion brand Guest In Residence global.
After the pop-up store opening, she held a special dinner, with top Korean stars as guests.
Photos of the guests together have been circulating on social media, including CL (2NE1), Jay Park, Jung Ho Yeon, Son Na Eun, Jung Yu Mi, Young Hoon (The Boyz)...
In particular, Kpop fans were surprised when the party also had the presence of 3 members of the group NewJeans: Minji, Hanni and Danielle.
Rapper CL later shared a series of photos and videos with Gigi Hadid, Jay Park, Jung Ho Yeon and 3 NewJeans members on Instagram.
A post re-sharing these images attracted attention on the online community theqoo with more than 40 thousand reads.
Korean netizens expressed surprise when NewJeans members were invited to the world-famous supermodel's intimate party. They were curious about the Kpop girl group's relationship with Gigi Hadid.
In addition, many comments were happy when big Kpop artists like CL and Jay Park interacted closely with NewJeans, as a support for this group in the context of tension with HYBE Group.
In another development, at the Q3 2024 report meeting on the morning of November 5, HYBE CEO Lee Jae Sang mentioned supporting NewJeans in the future.
He stated, "HYBE will do its best to support NewJeans' continued growth. NewJeans is the non-J-Pop artist to enter the Tokyo Dome in the shortest amount of time with the Bunnies' Camp fan meeting. With the songs "How Sweet" and "Supernatural", NewJeans is the group with 5 consecutive million-selling albums.
Although NewJeans does not have many official activities such as releasing albums and organizing concerts, the group is still famous on music charts and advertisements in the third quarter.
However, this statement is facing mixed reactions from NewJeans fans. They think that these are just empty promises. Because NewJeans' new album has been postponed due to conflicts with the corporation, recently there have been problems related to ADOR's revenue (NewJeans' management company) and the reputation ranking of NewJeans members has declined...
