In a live broadcast on the afternoon on September 11th, NewJeans directly expressed its position on the situation of its agency ADOR, which is suffering from internal conflicts.
Danielle said, “I don’t think we’ll be able to achieve the things we’ve been doing with CEO Min and the dreams we’ve planned in the future. We were just trying for our dreams, so what did we do wrong? A week after the CEO was dismissed, we couldn’t work with the director who had been with us until now anymore, and we are so worried that we won’t be able to work with the staff who have been by our side. If it’s really for us, don’t just say that you are putting artists first, but let us really rely on, enjoy, and work with our favorite music.“
Haerin said, “We don’t understand the current situation where external forces are constantly interrupting us. We can never understand what the they are actually doing for us and to develop NewJeans (like they promised).“
“It’s too bad our fans who have been comforted by us and for us who have been happy thanks to them. In the meantime, we almost lost the work that symbolizes the relationship between NewJeans and Bunnies, and we don’t want to lose anything else anymore,” she said.
The member added, “And we don’t want to conform or sympathize with or follow the situation of those people. We are not going to choose to go in that direction, because it’s definitely not our direction.“
Hyein said, “The way HYBE works is dishonest and wrong. Please don’t disturb us anymore. Please bring our CEO back and return ADOR to its original system, not the current unfamiliar environment. We are not asking you to do better. We just want both sides to do our jobs well in our own place. We hope our request will be heard.”
Danielle said, “I wish you could stop bullying CEO Min from a human perspective. HYBE seems to be just an inhumane company. What can we learn from a company like this?“
Minji emphasized, “What we want is the original ADOR, which is led by Min Hee-jin and both with management and production. This is a way to prevent our fight with HYBE. If our opinions were well communicated, Chairman Bang (Si-hyuk) and HYBE should make a wise decision to return ADOR to the original state by the 25th.“
On the 27th of last month, ADOR dismissed former CEO Min Hee-jin and appointed Kim Joo-young as the new CEO. ADOR said that even though former CEO Min steps down, she will remain in charge of producing NewJeans and maintain her position as an in-house director, but former CEO Min protested, saying that she was unilaterally notified of her dismissal by the company and that the contents of the business commission contract that proposed him to take charge of NewJeans’ production were also unreasonable.
On top of that, ADOR, under the new management, requested deletion of collaboration videos of NewJeans and Dolphiners Films, and its CEO, Shin, declared that it was impossible to work with ADOR under the changed management system and requested an official apology from ADOR. If the apology was not made within the deadline, he said he would sue for defamation and other charges
Sources: yt, daum
