HYBE 'self-destructs' NewJeans, the audio file is an undeniable crime, fans are shocked by manipulation?

September 25 is the deadline for HYBE Group to give an answer to NewJeans about restoring Min Hee Jin as CEO at ADOR company (a label under the group).

Will both sides have a beautiful and peaceful "ending" or will a legal battle for justice take place? HYBE and NewJeans are the two keywords that the online community is most interested in at the moment.

Recently, people were in an uproar when CBS FM Korea suddenly released a recording of a conversation between reporter Jang from the "Seoul Shinmun" newspaper and a PR officer of HYBE Group on the News Show of Kim Hyun Jeong program.

Specifically, according to the exposed recording, HYBE's PR department head convinced reporter Jang to write an article to downplay NewJeans' success in Japan: "On July 17, I wrote an article about NewJeans' Tokyo Dome event along with HYBE's stock price. I was then asked by HYBE to correct the article. Of course, correcting the truth is acceptable, but they distorted, criticized the artist's achievements, and said nonsense.

The person who called at that time was the head of HYBE's PR department, who was also in charge of PR for NewJeans. I have met many PR people, but this was the first time someone told me that their subsidiary and artists were not doing as well as expected."

The group's PR manager said, "The achievement of selling 1.02 million albums in Japan is actually much lower. NewJeans' debut in Japan was not as successful as expected and they did not sell that much. Although we do not like Min Hee Jin, because NewJeans is an artist of the company, we still try to promote the group, but we also want to confirm the truth of this information."

So we need to clarify the truth." According to reporter Jang, Cho Sung Hoon, PR director of HYBE also stated "NewJeans has been psychologically manipulated".

During the program, reporter Jang also said that the group invited him to play golf, but he refused: "In fact, they (HYBE) invited the department head to play golf. Of course, our department head refused because he thought it was inappropriate."

After this recording was revealed and spread rapidly on social media, HYBE officially spoke up. The group said: "This reporter wrote about NewJeans' performance in Japan on July 17, saying that the performance was successful with over 1.02 million album copies sold in Japan.

However, up to that point, only about 50,000 copies had been sold in Japan, with more than 900,000 copies sold domestically. The company's PR department could not let the misinformation persist and requested that the article be corrected.

If the article says that 1.02 million copies were sold in Japan, then it can be assumed that tens of millions of copies were sold globally. Providing false information can cause great misunderstanding to the market and investors, we have requested a correction. As a PR, there is no reason for us to speak negatively about NewJeans' performance.

In fact, HYBE's PR department sent people to Japan to support the media to closely approach the fan meeting at Tokyo Dome, helping to report smoothly and positively. We also proposed to support the NewJeans popup store interview to introduce the group's popularity in Japan," HYBE further explained.

Finally, HYBE claimed that reporter Jang had intentionally recorded the conversation with the PR person and disclosed it to the opponent during the dispute. HYBE also sent a notice to the reporter's unit in July to protest the above behavior. However, reporter Jang still appeared on television and publicly disclosed the content of the conversation without the consent of the person appearing in the recording, seriously violating professional ethics. Therefore, HYBE announced that it would take legal action against reporter Jang to protect its rights.

From a super hot group, NewJeans faces an extremely uncertain future when its "mother" Min Hee Jin was forced to resign after a dispute with HYBE. It can be said that NewJeans' "pho.oi" livestream session does not affect HYBE Labels' business plan. The group will also not restore Min Hee Jin's position as CEO of its subsidiary Ador as NewJeans requested.

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