New Report Exposes HYBE’s Attempt to Manipulate NewJeans’ Parents

On May 28, Ilgan Sports, a media site, revealed HYBE’s efforts to manipulate media coverage by pressuring reporters to write negative articles about Min Hee-jin and ADOR.

Specifically, as reported by Ilgan Sports, HYBE’s primary PR representative would visit media organizations that published adverse stories about the company and insist on the removal of names from the article, but their requests were denied.

According to the news site, HYBE disclosed that Min Hee Jin had a meeting with its main shareholders, but later demanded for us to remove the names of the executives after they were disclosed. The site also reported that after the audit announcement on April 25, HYBE’s head PR representative questioned why Ilgan Sports and news outlet A were supporting Min Hee Jin, despite the fact that they had never done so and had only covered her news conference.

Ilgan Sports reported that the reason why NewJeans‘ parents lost faith in HYBE was due to the shaman report. During a meeting, HYBE executives advised the parents of three NewJeans members not to disclose the shaman news to the group as it could potentially harm them. However, within an hour of the meeting ending, articles about the shaman were published, causing the parents to lose trust in HYBE.

However, the same report from Ilgan Sports also faced backlash for HYBE’s statement claiming that only mindless fans would support Min Hee-jin, while rational people would support them.

The source of this information is Krb, as reported by Ilgan Sports.