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This megathread is about the ongoing dispute within HYBE and the management of sub-label ADOR. Substantial news developments may be posted to the subreddit (outside of the Megathreads). Moderators will only approve posts that focus on statements by relevant parties, official representatives, or legal authorities. Unofficial commentary, fandom activities, speculation, or blind items will not be acceptable. Articles or translations should ideally be presented as neutrally as possible. Titles or content that are obviously sensationalized or intended to persuade readers to one perspective will be removed. English-speaking news outlets that have relatively more neutral reporting include Soompi, Yonhap News, and Korea JoongAng Daily. THIS POST MAY BE LOCKED OR UNLOCKED AT VARYING TIMES based on what the moderators are able to manage during their shifts. Please be patient with us while we work to balance keeping up with the queue and our own lives. DISCLAIMER ABOUT SOURCES: We prefer to focus on official statements from companies or other vetted sources. There will be widespread speculation and rumor-heavy articles, but until presented in an official capacity we consider them unsubstantiated. As Mods, all we can do is compile and summarize, but we are not investigators or journalists. Summary of Previous Megathreads ONE and TWO and THREE contains HYBE's audit of ADOR and Min Hee Jin's 1st press conference. FOUR summarized all events up to April 30th, 2024. FIVE and SIX contains potential ADOR embezzlement, MHJ's injunction and hearing, and a letter from the parents of NewJeans. SEVEN and EIGHT and NINE contains MHJ's injunction granted May 30th and remaining ADOR CEO, HYBE replacing ADOR board members, BELIFT LAB's video regarding plagiarism and lawsuit against MHJ. TEN and ELEVEN and TWELVE contains ex-ADOR employee's sexual harassment case, band Shakatak's plagiarism claim, HYBE 2.0 and ADOR restructuring with new CEO Kim Joo Young, MV director drama, the NewJeans livestream, MHJ's 2nd injunction filing and public events/interviews. THIRTEEN and FOURTEEN and FIFTEEN contains an interview with NewJeans' parents, Hanni and CEO Kim Joo Young at the National Assembly, MHJ's reappointment as director, Kim Taeho at the National Assembly, HYBE's Weekly Industry Report leak, the court's dismissal of MHJ's 2nd Injunction, ADOR board's vote against making MHJ's CEO again, NewJeans' certified letter of ultimatum to ADOR, rejection of Hanni's workplace bullying claim by labor ministry, MHJ's resignation from ADOR, and NewJeans' contract termination press conference. SIXTEEN and SEVENTEEN and EIGHTEEN contains ADOR's 26-page response to NewJeans' certified letter, Dispatch's exposé on MHJ's alleged strategy to leave HYBE, ADOR seeking validity of NewJeans member contracts, KMCA/KOSPO statements concerning tampering, the creation of the 'jeanzforfree' Instagram account, visa concerns, Employee B's MHJ defamation mediation failing, Davolink Chairman details, first hearings for Belift Lab and Source Music vs MHJ damages cases, dismissal of former ADOR VP's workplace harassment case against HYBE/ADOR, ADOR's injunction to halt NewJeans ad deals, and NewJeans rebranding to NJZ. MEGATHREAD NINETEEN covered mid-February to early March. Contains: Reports around Hanni's visa concerns and political involvement of National Assembly member Park Ji Won, NJZ parents establishing and posting to their PR Instagram account, the conclusion of three related allegations of 'workplace harassment' with no charges against HYBE/ADOR or ADOR CEO Kim Jooyoung, the joint press conference of 5 major industry organizations regarding tampering and contractual integrity, and the provisional injunction hearing for ADOR's complaint to restrict NJZ's music activities along with new ad deals until contract validity is determined. MEGATHREAD TWENTY covered the rest of March. Contains: The provisional injunction hearing and results two weeks later granting the injunction in ADOR's favor, NewJeans' activities at ComplexCon, NewJeans' filed objection to the injunction ruling and hearing set for early April, progress for Employee B, and general media/articles around the injunction results. MEGATHREAD TWENTY ONE covered all of April. Contains: HYBE's annual shareholders' meeting, the 1st hearing for confirmation of ADOR's contract validity with NewJeans, the hearing for NewJeans' objection to the injunction ruling and subsequent rejection of their objection by the judge one week later, and the 2nd hearing regarding shareholder agreement termination validity between HYBE and MHJ was designated to run jointly along with the case around exercising put/call options. Articles / Timeline 250422 This day marks one year since HYBE launched their audit of Min Hee Jin and ADOR's management. Happy(?) 1st anniversary of the Megathreads! 250502 The 3rd hearing for Min Hee Jin vs. Belift Lab was set to take place but postponed to July 18th at Belift Lab's request. Each side is due to present their arguments/documents regarding plagiarism issues at the next meeting. (Source: Maeil Kyungjae) 250530 We learned that ADOR had filed for 'indirect enforcement' after their injunction was granted and NewJeans performed at ComplexCon back in March (Filed on April 4th according to the statement from NewJeans' representatives linked below). On the 30th, the 52nd Division of the Seoul Central District court further granted this request. The 'indirect enforcement' ruling means that each individual member of NewJeans will be fined 1 billion won (approx. $725,000) if they continue with entertainment activities independent of ADOR, which would be in violation of the injunction. This enforcement with potential fines does NOT apply to any of NewJeans' independent activities between the granting of the injunction and the granting of this 'indirect enforcement'. These fines will only apply to future activities going forward, or at least until rulings with NewJeans' appeal or the main contract validity case changes anything (next hearing on June 5th). (Source: Chosun Biz, MK Sports) The Korea Herald: Court orders NewJeans to pay Ador 1 billion won for each unauthorized activity Discussion Post Korea JoongAng Daily: Court orders NewJeans members to pay ADOR $725,600 for every independent entertainment activity A statement by NewJeans' representatives was made later in the day primarily acknowledging the indirect enforcement ruling, but reiterating that it is temporary and will no longer have an effect if NewJeans win their appeal of the injunction. (Source: Ilgan Sports) The 2nd hearing for Source Music's damages lawsuit against Min Hee Jin took place at the 12th Civil Affairs Division of the Seoul Western District Court. (Quick recap: 1st was January 10th, 2nd was previously scheduled for March 14th, postponed per Source Music's request). Legal representatives were present. Source Music had a 20-minute presentation prepared, but Min Hee Jin's representatives objected to the inclusion of KakaoTalk messages in the presentation. They claimed the messages were illegally obtained and requested the hearing to be closed/private. Source Music denied the messages were obtained illegally, claiming they were gained from company devices with consent. The court went with a temporary compromise to keep the hearing public, but not allow discussion/display of the messages until they were reviewed again. A special hearing to review the messages will take place June 27th. (Source: Sports Today) 250605 The Seoul Central District Court Division 41 held the second hearing for ADOR seeking confirmation of validity for their exclusive contract with NewJeans. Only legal representatives were in attendance. NewJeans' side primarily argued that ADOR had not met their obligations and that their evidence they were preparing to support NewJeans' activities, like finding a new producer, was inadequate. ADOR's side argued that NewJeans' reasons for allegedly terminating their contract continually changed, indicating they are arbitrary and being made up with retroactive hindsight. The issue of some evidence being collected illegally also came up again from NewJeans' side. Judge Jung Hoe-Il specifically inquired if both/either sides were willing to come to an agreement, encouraging them to do so. NewJeans' representatives strongly indicated this was unlikely as the trust in ADOR had completely collapsed. ADOR's representatives indicated they could see negotiating an agreement once the court comes to a final decision. The 3rd hearing was set for July 24th. (Sources: X Sport News, Maeil Kyungjae) 250612 The next hearing regarding the Shareholder Agreement termination and exercising put/call options lawsuits between HYBE and Min Hee Jin was held at the Seoul Central District Court's 31st Division. Arguments from each side mostly re-tread what we've already covered. HYBE's side argued they were justified in ending the shareholder agreement due to the threat Min Hee Jin posed to the company. Min Hee Hin's side argued the timing of the audit/termination did not align purely with that concern and that some KakaoTalk messages and emails were obtained illegally and not admissable as evidence. HYBE also indicated they had a witness to give testimony at the next meeting, which the court accepted. The next hearing with closing arguments, was set for September 11th for both lawsuits. (Sources: Maeil Kyungjae, TV Daily, Sports Today) 250617 Following up from April 16th when NewJeans appealed the court's decision to uphold the injunction and halt on their independent activities, the Seoul High Court reaffirmed the earlier decision. The court rejected NewJeans' appeal. They determined there was no significant change in the material/arguments presented for the appeal and the original decision to grant ADOR's injunction was justified. There was further clarification that the management conflict between HYBE and Min Hee Jin, and her no longer being NewJeans' producer, did not constitute a valid argument for the alleged collapse of trust between ADOR and NewJeans. The group's withdrawal from ADOR is considered arbitrary, that their artistic freedom or activity is not impeded since they are able to do so within their exclusive contract, and that any damages resulting from attempting independent activities are self-inflicted. (Sources: Yonhap News, NewsPim, News 1) The Korea Herald: K-pop High Court rejects NewJeans appeal, upholding ban on independent activities Post Soompi: Seoul High Court Denies NewJeans' Appeal Of Injunction Decision Looking Ahead: June 27: Special hearing for Source Music vs. MHJ to review KakaoTalk messages as evidence July 18: 3rd hearing for Belift Lab vs. MHJ (postponed from May 2nd) July 24: 3rd hearing for ADOR seeking confirmation of validity for their exclusive contract with NewJeans September 11: Next hearing regarding the Shareholder Agreement termination and exercising put/call options lawsuits between HYBE and Min Hee Jin Ongoing Legal Complaints/Investigations: HYBE's report to the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) regarding potential insider trading by ADOR management (Korea JoongAng) HYBE's complaint against Min Hee Jin for 'breach of trust' (Yonhap) Belift Lab's complaint against Min Hee Jin for defamation (Soompi) and additionally for business interference (The Korea Herald) SOURCE MUSIC's lawsuit against Min Hee Jin for damages in regards to the disruption of business/defamation of LE SSERAFIM (Korea JoongAng) and additionally regarding alleged false claims by MHJ for the launch strategy of N Team/NewJeans (Soompi) British band Shakatak's plagiarism claim against NewJeans' 'Bubble Gum' (Yonhap) Min Hee Jin and HYBE executives filed reports against each other back-to-back (Soompi and Korea JoongAng) Former ADOR Employee 'B' filed complaint against MHJ in relation to sexual harassment cover-up and workplace mistreatment. (JTBC) MV Director Shin Woo Seok filed a lawsuit against ADOR CEO Kim Joo Young and ADOR VP Lee Do Kyung for defamation. (Korea JoongAng) MHJ's lawsuits against Belift Lab's Kim Tae Ho for defamation (Yonhap), HYBE CCO Park Tae Hee and PR Director Cho for breach of duty (Yonhap), and HYBE executives and Dispatch reporters for defamation. (Soompi) (One or both of these might be re-statements of earlier suits.) ADOR's lawsuit to determine validity of their contracts with NewJeans (Soompi) Link back to MEGATHREADS 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 - 11 - 12 - 13 - 14 - 15 - 16 - 17 - 18 - 19 - 20 - 21 GROUND RULES IN COMMENTS If you have come to this subreddit to discuss anything, you are choosing to participate in a moderated space with rules of conduct enforced by human beings. All users are subject to the discretion of moderators to manage this space even if it's in ways you don't agree with. Do not Insult users, fans, or artists. 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Ew trump. I do not support any misogynistic, white nationalist, incel, hitler-like (esp. Musk), racists at all and neither does this sub and apparently neither does reddit as a site as a whole. He stands against everything Kpop stands for which is an art form from a formerly colonized people from a country that is rising up against colonialism and hatred. Anyone who comments anything negative to this, or tries to defend that orange guy will be banned permanently. Go somewhere else, we don't want your lower kind here. This is why American women everywhere are going 4b EDIT!!!: 4B 4B4B4B4B4B!! 4B IN THE SOUTH, 4B IN THE NORTH, 4B FROM TEXAS TO ALABAMA, FROM BYU TO COLOMBIA! 4B ALL FIFTY STATES! A CONVICTED PEDO AND FELON IS NOW PRESIDENT SO IF YOU'RE A WOMAN WITH ANY SELF RESPECT 4B, 4B, 4b (ESPCIALLY THE CONSERVATIVES!!!!) submitted by /u/Kpop_Love_Forever [link] [comments]

Hey folks! Over in r/kpop we just posted a new special Town Hall that is focused only on the Flairs we use to help organize our posts based on content categories. Link to r/kpop's 'All About Flairs' Town Hall We included announcements for new flairs here on r/kpoppers and also on r/kpophelp. The following is the section relevant for this subreddit. NEW FLAIRS! Connect - This flair will be used for anything where fans are trying to socially connect with each other. Announcing new K-Pop subreddits or Discords, looking for mutual fans on social media, wanting to meet up at a concert, seeking fans in a region to form a dance group, networking for a fan project, announcing a K-Pop night at a club, etc. Research - Academic surveys related to K-Pop or fandom topics. We'll keep an eye on these new flairs to see if they create any confusion or need adjustments. Let us know if you have any thoughts, concerns, or questions! submitted by /u/alleybetwixt [link] [comments]

First of all, before people tell me this, no, I am not talking about constructive criticism or founded critique. I'm clearly talking about insults, defamation and lies. With the recent aespa controversy, we've gone way past the "criticism" stage and many people, yes, even here on Reddit, are straight up bullying them relentlessly. When confronted, you get many Redditors and fans from other social media saying stuff like "well, MYs shouldn't have bothered other groups". There's been posts (now removed) filled with comments talking about how this is what MYs get for being toxic and whatnot. First of all... if we use this reasoning, then every single big group deserves to get bullied. Every big fandom is toxic, has hated on others, and more. Why are you people able to separate the bad from the good from your own fandom? Because no matter how hard you try, acting like MYs are uniquely evil is not only naive but dishonest. Same as saying stuff like "they've started hate trains on most other groups" which is... it's cute you think MYs are that big and powerful, but they're not. And then... how is it aespa's fault what their fandom does? Why is Giselle getting called plastic monster and edited predebut pictures of her making rounds "karma" for MYs? People have even started spreading lies about them saying how they actually can't sing and it's just SM mediaplay, and more. Should we start calling every group's hate train karma then? I'm sure many of you wouldn't like that. Why is it allowed and therefore an upvoted opinion when it comes to aespa? I don't wanna repeat every ugly thing I've seen people say about them, but it's crazy to me how K-Pop stans love to preach about mental health until it's a group they don't like for whatever reason. That is not how "karma" works, and the people that do it are no better than the toxic fandoms they claim to hate. submitted by /u/randomgirl852007 [link] [comments]

Can include soloists and group members whether they’re still currently active or not. They have to have debuted between 1990 and 2009. Whoever has the highest number of upvotes on their most upvoted comment wins the round. Yoona won the fifth round with 66 upvotes! Next up we’re looking for the center. submitted by /u/nipplequeefs [link] [comments]

Even if you don't like TWICE's music, you should still listen to this album. It is a very different sound than most of their other work. submitted by /u/SnooOranges829 [link] [comments]

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Let’s play with vibes! Pick your bias and describe them using only: 3 colors that match their aura 🎨 2 emojis that capture their personality🫣 1 song that fits them perfectly🎶 Then, let others guess who your bias is based on your description! Example: Colors: Royal purple, Red, White Emojis: 🐷🍒 Song: MARDI GRAS (GO CRAZY) (Can you guess who this is?) Go wild, be creative, and show us how you see your bias 🌌 submitted by /u/Anonymousdepresser [link] [comments]

you really can’t make this stuff up I think we were all (rightfully) skeptical about the longterm success of this sub, for many reasons, but I don’t think anyone saw this coming. I def thought the sub was gonna implode from the festering enmity between the respective fandoms but we never even had a fighting chance🥀 anyways, there’s a new sub(r/bangpinktwice) with hopefully saner mods submitted by /u/Mobile-Structure5702 [link] [comments]

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hello all ! as you all can see by the title, i want to put together a kpop dance cover group based in brooklyn, ny. i just moved here and i had always wanted to be in a dance cover group and make videos. so, that is what i plan on doing and hopefully i can meet new people and make new friends ! if anyone at all is interested leave a comment and i’ll make a discord server and send links ! submitted by /u/bimbiiii [link] [comments]

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Suho - Who Are You Release Date: 22 September 2025 Track Lyrics by Composed by Arranged by 01. Who Are You Lee Jenny (PNP) Ryan Dulude, Dario Comuzzi, Gunnar Gehl Ryan Dulude 02. Light The Fire Cho Yoon Kyung Ben Epand, Jamie N Commons, Gunnar Gehl Ben Epand 03. Medicine danke Starsmith Starsmith 04. Birthday Joo Hwan Finlay Dow-Smith, Corey Sanders, Sophia Brenan Starsmith 05. Golden Hour SH2O, Zaya (153/Joombas) Jake K (ARTiffect), Alida Peck, Sophie Simmons, Tiina Vainikainen, Tushar Apte Jake K (ARTiffect), Tushar Apte 06. Fadeout Kim Sang Eun (Jamfactory) Lukas Forchhammer, Ole Bjørn Heiring Albertsen, Daniel Scheffmann, Andreas Odbjerg Bjørn & Scheffmann 07. Who Are You (English Ver.) Amy Y (PNP) Ryan Dulude, Dario Comuzzi, Gunnar Gehl Ryan Dulude STREAM ON Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube Music submitted by /u/perochan [link] [comments]

Hi there, I’m watching a survival show for the first time while it’s airing and I was shocked when I learned about fan organized Giveaways to get korean people (K votes have more impact than global votes) to vote for their fave and secure their spot in the final line up. Knowing this kind of ruined the show for me and I got downvoted into oblivion in the shows subreddit for saying so, which is maybe not suprising in a post where people got updated on the current status of the events, but got me thinking how kpop fans in general feel about stuff like that going on? What kind of rubbed me the wrong way, was people in the subreddit always complain about the networks editing influencing the votes by not giving screentime to some people and pushing some trainees with positive storylines and how unfair this is, meanwhile fans collect tons of money to give away goldbars, diamonds, cashprices , holidays or apple products for a vote for their fave. According to the sub, one event collected over 200k $ from fans to buy prices for k-voters and the group where people can submit their voting certif has like 45k people in it. Am I the only one who thinks this is insane? Not only that people donate money to get a stranger into a group but the amount of time and work that people are willing to put into organizing those type of events must be huge. I can’t imagine how much time it will take to go through submitted proof of vote, organizing and shipping prices to people etc. I know I was very naive thinking that this is just an entertaining show, where people will feel fond enough for some trainees to go the extramile of downloading an app and vote for their faves and maybe some teenager take it serious enough to bother their parents to download the app too on their devices so their fave gets more votes. But the level of dedication an money involved kind of shocks me, especially since most people watching seem to agree on unfair favouring of some trainees through the network but in the mean time the same people donate money so random koreans could get a goldbar if they vote. I watched boys planet earlier this year and found it really sweet when Zhang Hao didn’t even realize that he got first place as Hanbin never left the top spot, only to find out now that an organized fan giveaway for votes might have something to do with it. So it wasn’t the pure miracle it seemed for me watching. Am I the only one weirded out by this? submitted by /u/Independent-Dirt7009 [link] [comments]

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