NewJeans’ Hanni Personally Addresses Their Discord With HYBE In Now-Deleted Broadcast
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.
On September 11, NewJeans took netizens by shock with a broadcast on a new YouTube channel (named nwjns), and the members looked very somber and serious compared to other times they have gone live.
While most of it was in Korean, Hanni made some key points and started by saying that HYBE seemingly “infringed” their content despite discussions about what would happen after Min Hee Jin was taken out of her role as ADOR CEO.
Something we all find very important, something that plays a very important role in our team’s color and image is our media content and creative production. Despite saying that they would leave all the creative production to our now-former CEO Min Hee Jin, through official statements that I think a lot of you might have already read and seen during our personal meetings, they infringed on our content.
— Hanni
She explained the impact it was having on the staff.
It was content that we not only worked really hard on but our staff who spent endless hours to produce and release, solely for our fans. If they had any understanding about what type of team we are and the content we create, they would have thought more deeply before crossing the line they set themselves.
— Hanni
Hanni then explained that since Min Hee Jin stepped down, the “harmony” between the management and creative side of ADOR wasn’t working in the same way.
Because of this incident, we realize that there’s not much we can do to prevent these issues. Personally, the way that ADOR used to run was business management and creative production were not separated, and it was the factors that played and worked in harmony together. That’s how it worked and was perfectly fine.
Now that she is no longer CEO, these factors that should’ve continued to work together in harmony are now being seen as two different areas of work.
— Hanni
She then explained her feelings towards HYBE how they won’t follow orders “blindly” and how they believe they should be treated much better. Hanni added that she didn’t feel that the HYBE was sincere about helping them continue to work with Min Hee Jin.
“Like how we have our own and individual thoughts and feelings, we have our choice to decide how we choose to react to each situation and we are not going to follow HYBE’s every orders blindly. We are more than well aware that this is getting in the way of our work, and that we should be treated much better than we are right now.
It’s very hard to truly believe they are sincere about wanting to help us continue to work with our former CEO. Despite being the midst of the current legal conflict, she is expected to plan and creatively produce our future endeavors in only two months, which I personally think makes no sense at all.”
— Hanni
Hanni finished by saying she didn’t want empty words from HYBE and that it was the group’s desire for everything to go back to normal.
We don’t want to hear all the empty words about how they are going to help us continue to work with Min Hee Jin. All we want is this legal conflict to be resolved and have our working environment to go back to normal.
— Hanni
The YouTube video and channel have since been deleted.
