HYBE faces calls to reinstate Min Hee-jin as CEO of NewJeans’ label ADOR

HYBE is reportedly going through calls to reinstate Min Hee-jin because the CEO of ADOR, the Okay-pop company of in style woman group NewJeans, after she stepped down from the function final week.

In keeping with a brand new story by Yonhap News Agency at present (September 4), the place it cited “music business sources”, the publication experiences that over 1,000 self-identified followers of NewJeans have expressed considerations about “the administration shake-up” at ADOR and the way that might “affect the group’s future” in an open letter to HYBE.

The letter was reportedly addressed to new ADOR CEO Kim Ju-young, three different ADOR board members and Lee Jae-sang, the newly appointed CEO of HYBE. In keeping with Yonhap‘s sources, the letter “demanded Min’s time period as CEO be assured till November 2026 below the [original] settlement”.

The letter additionally expressed disapproval of Kim Ju-young as ADOR’s new CEO, saying “they can’t perceive” why Kim was chosen as Min’s substitute given her earlier function inside HYBE as its chief human assets officer and her alleged lack of expertise within the leisure business.

In keeping with The Korea Times, some followers of NewJeans have additionally filed a criticism with native police towards media outlet Dispatch, HYBE and its subsidiary Supply Music for allegedly breaching the Private Data Safety Act and the Data and Communications Community Act.

Within the criticism, followers additionally claimed that HYBE and Supply Music “illegally collected and leaked private data associated to Min Hee-jin and NewJeans”, which they alleged was fed to Dispatch for publication.

The open letter comes simply two days after three members of NewJeans took to fan neighborhood app Phoning to explicitly specific their misery over Min Hee-jin’s departure from the corporate and managerial adjustments inside ADOR and HYBE.