HYBE has been accused of pressurizing the media to remove unfavorable reports about their ongoing feud with
Min Hee Jin and the clash of interest with
NewJeans.
After the members of NewJeans held a
guerilla livestream, demanding Min to be reinstated and ADOR to be restored to its previous state,
KBS, one of the leading media outlets of South Korea, published a report claiming Min Hee Jin’s team had advised the members against such a move.
The report said that NewJeans wanted to hold a press conference right after Min was dismissed as the CEO of ADOR, but her team had argued that it could lead to risks such as breach of exclusive contracts and misunderstandings. But the members were resolute to put their stance out there, and hence made the decision independently.
Soon after the article’s publication, it was removed from the KBS website, which struck netizens as odd. A post on
Instiz went viral after highlighting this removal, where the OP (original poster) argued that HYBE engaging in such muscle flexing with the media to avoid bad press will only turn the public against them.
Meanwhile, HYBE received even more criticism recently after HYBE employees were caught mocking
BTS’s
Jungkook following his post in support of NewJeans.
KBS News published a report mentioning that Min Hee Jin's side advised NewJeans against their guerilla livestream.
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