Same Old Stereotypes? Min Hee Jin Reveals Bang Si Hyuk’s Alleged Perspective Of ARMYs
This article is part of our coverage of HYBE vs. ADOR CEO Min Hee Jin. You can read more and view the entire timeline here.
ADOR’s CEO, Min Hee Jin, is currently at the forefront of K-Pop controversies due to a public feud with HYBE. The conglomerate accused her of trying to usurp management and separate ADOR from its parent company. After some mud-slinging from both parties, the ADOR CEO held a press conference on April 25, KST, to defend her stance.
Contrary to most K-Pop press meet, Min Hee Jin’s interaction with the media was far from formal. While clarifying her situation, she went into multiple heated monologues, talked with curse words woven in between, and even ignored her lawyers’ advice when they tried to stop her from talking about certain topics.
Amidst this chaotic press conference, Min Hee Jin talked about how Bang brought her on board to launch a girl group under Source Music. While talking about his plans for the girl group, he allegedly told Min that he could not launch a girl group under BIGHIT MUSIC because BTS’s female fans might get “jealous.”
Namjoon made James apologize because he called ARMYs “15 years old girls” now Bang PD called us “jealous female fans” OH BANG SIHYUK, IT’S OVER FOR YOU!!!!! pic.twitter.com/9CuYblzzJF
— Rani⁷ 🤍ʳᵖʷᵖ (@prajaktabts7) April 25, 2024
Bang Si Hyuk said, ‘BIGHIT has a lot of female fans because of BTS. We can’t make a girl group here. Because female fans might be jealous of girl groups. We have to make a girl group label.’
— Min Hee Jin
The comment deeply upset ARMYs, as many felt that Bang Si Hyuk was parroting the same harmful stereotypes against BTS’s fandom as the group’s critics. They rebuked the HYBE founder for undermining the same fandom that he otherwise likes to present as an anomaly to K-Pop culture in public.
“We can't make girl group here. Because female fans might be jealous of girl groups.” and yet some of yall will still ride this man's d1ck when he's portraying us as some sort of fanatic https://t.co/8oFE67mfWs
— ☘︎ (@nwjnsbts) April 25, 2024
Namjoon made James apologize because he called ARMYs “15 years old girls” now Bang PD called us “jealous female fans” OH BANG SIHYUK, IT'S OVER FOR YOU!!!!! pic.twitter.com/9CuYblzzJF
— Rani⁷ 🤍ʳᵖʷᵖ (@prajaktabts7) April 25, 2024
Dude been cashing up on your money while laughing at y'all in the background while y'all kept defending him like no tomorrow even throwing the boys under the bus for him https://t.co/XVc5x7AVRC pic.twitter.com/zBNEWUwoDS
— hobijoon (@a_RM_son) April 25, 2024
bang pd saying he doesn't want to debut a girl group bc bts have mostly female fans and they might be jealous is the most insane excuse ever and it's just ao disrespectful towards bts and armys yet armys still continue defending him
— lea⁷ (@btslgbtwarriors) April 25, 2024
«Because female fans might be jealous of girl groups» bro wdgaf 💀 https://t.co/w9RAEoHf1c pic.twitter.com/lHux03lvhy
— mona⁷ 𐙼 아포방포2025 : RPWP (@justtannies) April 25, 2024
bang pd saying he didn’t wanna debut a gg bc of jealous armys is actually so fuckin childish like i know joon laughed at that
— 𝕓⁷☆♡ (@tycoonjimin) April 25, 2024
no bc fans have been literally begging them to debut grown adult women but they keep debuting minors just bc bang pd thinks we're the problem. LIKE WE DO NOT GIVE A FUCK https://t.co/p8Cse2mmun
— hands of midas 🍉🔻 (@seaofl1es) April 25, 2024
