Last week, girl group NewJeans (Minji, Hanni, Danielle, Haerin, Hyein) and former CEO of ADOR Min Hee Jin caused a stir in public opinion with many new developments in the ongoing litigations with HYBE Group.
After the court declared that NewJeans lost the lawsuit in the contract dispute with ADOR (under HYBE), in the most recent hearing, Min Hee Jin was exposed by Source Music (under HYBE) for her lie.
Source Music has provided recordings to prove that all of the original NewJeans members were chosen by Source Music, not Min Hee Jin.
On the other hand, Min Hee Jin was accused of directing her subordinates to search for anything, including potential errors of some HYBE artists, to use as documents for the lawsuit.
From NewJeans' loss to ADOR, to Min Hee Jin being identified as the main cause of NewJeans' collapse, the public is gradually turning their backs on the former CEO and the 5-member girl group.
In a post that attracted more than 50,000 views on the online community theqoo, Korean audiences made many critical comments: HYBE has always been honest from the beginning, only Min Hee Jin and NewJeans kept lying; SuJeans knows better than anyone that Min Hee Jin has been lying about everything; I once supported NewJeans comeback, but this level of betrayal is not a joke; A group of scammers...
In particular, many viewers were confused by the overly honest attitude of NewJeans members towards Min Hee Jin: NewJeans and their parents both knew it was wrong and they were originally cast by Source Music, but they still agreed with Min Hee Jins lie? Glossy skin."
What is really strange is Minji, who was a trainee at Source Music long before Min Hee Jin joined the company, seems to be the most loyal person to Min Hee Jin.
"It's surprising that NewJeans keep blindly following Min Hee Jin and always affirms: "We wouldn't have returned to ADOR without Min Hee Jin".
Then, on the Pann Nate community, a post analyzing why NewJeans couldn't leave Min Hee Jin received more than 117,000 visits.
The poster said that NewJeans is always loyal to Min Hee Jin because idols seem to rely largely on producer Min Hee Jin to become famous.
The NewJeans members are all beautiful, but personally, I dont think any of them have special star qualities or talents. NewJeans' success comes from their aesthetics and good songs.
They themselves understand that, and perhaps that is the reason why they cannot leave Min Hee Jin. They themselves have nothing outstanding. No internal strength, just a flashy appearance. After all, NewJeans revolves around image and music.
Both fans and members knew this, so they turned Min Hee Jin into a sacred image and could not give up. NewJeans has depended too much on Min Hee Jin.
Many people agreed with the post, saying that Min Hee Jin has a name value higher than NewJeans, even NewJeans fans are one of the few Kpop fandoms on the producers side rather than idols.
