HYBE’s Obsession with Recruiting All SM Employees Leaves Netizens Baffled

On May 3, a post on the Korean forum Instiz titled “HYBE Reaches Out to Many SM Entertainment Employees”garnered significant attention.

The subject referenced a statement from a core employee at SM Entertainment, who informed CBS No Cut News of HYBE’s efforts to recruit talent from their company.

The core worker specifically stated that HYBE has always closely monitored SM. According to long-standing employees, all of them have been recruited by HYBE at some point. The worker also mentioned that this is particularly true for departments such as talent development and production.

Upon hearing this news, the majority of Korean netizens were perplexed by HYBE’s apparent fixation on SM. This confusion was heightened when it was disclosed that HYBE had tried to acquire a controlling stake in SM and that the company’s founder, Bang Si-hyuk, had expressed a desire to “crush”aespa.

Listed below are a few remarks from internet users:

Why is HYBE so fixated on SM?
Didn’t
Min Hee-jin was from SM and NCT’s manager also moved to HYBE. They have so many SM staff now
Well this is understandable though, a new company will obviously want experienced employees
Of course they want to steal personnel from SM lol
It seems like HYBE doesn’t care about discovering new talents… They just want the ones already established

The source of the information is from Instiz on PC, which can be found at “//www.instiz.net/name_enter/92003627?page=1&category=2&srt=3&k=&srd=1”.