Min Hee-jin, the former CEO of Korean agency ADOR, which manages K-pop group NewJeans, has been reappointed as inside director for a three-year term. ADOR held an extraordinary general shareholders meeting on Oct. 17 to reappoint Min Hee-jin, who is in a legal battle with HYBE, ADOR’s parent...
Korean agency Belift Lab, a company under HYBE, denied that it copied a plan about NewJeans and used it in forming K-pop girl group ILLIT. On Oct. 11, the Seoul Central District Court held a hearing on the injunction filed by former ADOR CEO Min Hee-jin against HYBE about the exercise of...
The widening rift between Korean entertainment agency HYBE, and NewJeans and former ADOR CEO Min Hee-jin continued, this time about an issue involving rookie K-pop group ILLIT. During a YouTube live broadcast on Sept. 11, NewJeans demanded HYBE to reinstate Min Hee-jin as CEO of ADOR. ...
Amid the legal battle between Korean entertainment company HYBE and Min Hee-jin, former CEO of ADOR, the agency that manages group NewJeans, fans of BTS have issued a statement opposing her reinstatement. HYBE is the parent company of BTS, NewJeans and other K-pop groups. Last Sept. 11,...
Members of K-pop group have demanded HYBE, their parent company, to bring back ousted CEO Min Hee-jin to her former position at their agency, ADOR. In a live broadcast on YouTube on Sept. 11, NewJeans’ Hanni, Danielle, Minji, Haerin, and Hyein expressed their support to Min Hee-jin, who was...
K-pop girl group Aespa took home the grand prize on the second and final day of the 2024 The Fact Music Awards (TMA) held at Kyocera Dome in Osaka, Japan on Sept. 8. The Korean music awards ceremony , emceed by Jun Hyun-moo and Seohyun, was held for two days on Sept. 7 and 8, and was hosted...
K-pop girl group NewJeans and Filipino artists Alamat, Kyle Echarri, Nik Makino, Illest Morena, and Zack Tabudlo got together for the impressive Coke Studio Ultimate Fandom Concert on Sept. 5 at the SM Mall of Asia Arena. “Coke Studio is our platform to make a service like the collaboration...
The board of directors of label ADOR, which manages K-pop girl group NewJeans, has ousted Min Hee-jin from her position as chief executive officer (CEO). She was replaced by Ju Young Kim, a human resources management expert at HYBE, and a member of ADOR board of directors. Min Hee-jin...
K-pop girl group NewJeans will be headlining the Coke Studio Philippines “The Ultimate Fandom Concert” on Sept. 5 at the SM Mall of Asia Arena. For the past seven seasons, Coke Studio has been showcasing diverse Filipino artists, propelling both emerging and established artists to connect...
Korean agency ADOR announced that NewJeans’ member Hyein will be participating in the group’s Tokyo fan meeting next week as she continues recovery from the microfracture injury in her foot. In May, ADOR announced that in April, “Hyein felt pain in the top of her foot during practice....
K-pop girl group NewJeans and K-pop boy band BTS’ RM grabbed the first two places on the daily physical album chart in South Korea. On May 24, NewJeans released “How Sweet” while RM dropped his album “Right Place, Wrong Person.” NewJeans’ “How Sweet” sold 811,843...
Belift Lab, the agency of K-pop girl group ILLIT, has a complaint against NewJeans’ CEO Min Hee-jin of ADOR for defamation and obstruction of business. Belift Lab and ADOR are under HYBE. However, the relationship between HYBE and ADOR soured after Min Hee-jin accused ILLIT of plagiarizing...
