ILLIT Faces Backlash For Mentioning Names Of Executives Being Sued By Min Hee Jin
On November 21, the 2024 MAMA Awards (Mnet Asian Music Awards) was held in Los Angeles, California.
The event will be held over three days, with the last two days taking place in Japan.
In particular, girl group ILLIT won Best New Female Artist, and thanked fans and their agency in their acceptance speech.
Minju also thanked fans for the support in English.
2024 마마 신인상 🏆 민주의 영어 수상소감#아일릿 #ILLIT #민주 #MINJU pic.twitter.com/6kanHqWIpD
— 냥서GO (@nyangsoe) November 22, 2024
However, one part of their speech garnered much attention online.
We thank our company members Taeho, Yoonhyuk, Gajun, Seryun, and everyone else at Belift Lab. We also want to thank the staff members who have helped us. We sincerely thank everyone.
— Yunah
However, netizens realized that the four people mentioned in the acceptance speech were the same four people that former ADOR CEO Min Hee Jin filed a lawsuit against.
Korean netizens felt that mentioning specific people from their agency was not helping their image.
- “How many opportunities are they blowing? With their failed comeback, did they think that more fans would join? Uh bye..”
- “They are active as idols…did they really have to mention them..”
- “Why did they mention them..do they not know it’s just making their image worse..”
- “Legendary lineup…lol.”
- “I think the company probably wrote them a script to read…”
- “How many chances are they blowing like this…”
- “Are people really going to say that idols have no fault in this…the idols are literally just shields at this point.”
