Ex-ADOR CEO Min Hee-jin has formally filed a legal grievance in opposition to Okay-pop firm HYBE’s public relations executives.
On November 26, Min Hee-jin’s representatives shared that the previous ADOR CEO had filed a legal grievance with Seoul’s Yongsan Police Station accusing two HYBE executives of breach of duties relating to ADOR woman group NewJeans.
In keeping with Yonhap Information Company, the executives named within the grievance are HYBE’s Chief Communications Officer Park Tae-hee and a PR director solely recognized as Cho. They’re a part of the company’s public relations workforce, which reportedly handles communications and promotional actions for the artists underneath the company’s sublabels, together with woman group NewJeans.
Min’s representatives claimed in an announcement that Park and Cho “not solely did not fulfil their obligations however prompted vital injury to NewJeans and ADOR by downplaying the group’s achievements”. They added that they hope “applicable legal penalties are imposed”.
That is the newest in a months-long feud between Min and HYBE, which was first made public in April this yr after the company launched an investigation over a suspicion that Min was trying to take management of ADOR. The then-CEO quickly adopted up with statements and press conferences accusing HYBE of “undermining” NewJeans’ success, amongst different allegations.
Final week, Min formally resigned from her place as an inner director at ADOR and left the company. In an announcement, she mentioned that she was terminating her shareholder settlement with HYBE and voiced her intention to carry the company “legally accountable for breaches of this settlement”.
Earlier this month, NewJeans additionally reportedly despatched a signed certificates of contents to ADOR, wherein they demanded the label “rectify all grave breaches of the unique contracts inside 14 days of receipt”. In addition they shared plans to “revoke our unique contracts” if their calls for aren’t met.
