Article: "Summary of Min Hee-jin's press conference today (public sentiment changes)"
Source: Pann
1. It is true that Min Hee-jin created New Jeans, she took all the trainees and capital from Source to create the group x
2. As for her refusal to submit her laptop, even before she decided whether or not to submit it, HYBE had already been spreading articles about ‘Min Hee-jin's refusal to submit her laptop’.
3. Fact: Min Hee-jin reverse-viraled idols belonging to HYBE x
4. Bang Si-hyuk and Min Hee-jin texting on KakaoTalk. Bang Si-hyuk asked Min Hee-jin, "Can you step on the aespa?"
Summary of today's Min Hee-jin press conference (public sentiment changes)
5. After New Jeans’ debut, Bang Si-hyuk’s attitude towards Min Hee-jin changed drastically. He sent a katalk "congratulating New Jeans on their debut" and added the message below, "are you happy?" - what's more startling, he deleted his previous katalk "ke ke" that he had originally sent.
6. As mentioned in KakaoTalk above, Bang Si-hyuk hoped that HYBE's girl group would follow in the same footsteps as SM girl group (aespa) but New Jeans became a bigger hit than he expected and her share of the pie grew bigger. So Bang Si-hyuk started to keep New Jeans in check, because they had grown bigger than he expected. That's when he and Min Hee-jin started butting heads (fighting).
7. Although HYBE said they completely supported Min Hee-jin in everything, they actually did not allow her to promote New Jeans before their debut and completely blocked promotions of New Jeans so that only SOURCE's girl group (Le Sseraphim) got meaningful promotions.
8. Management rights: She claims that it's not true, she never attempted to seize rights (Min Hee-jin's position). The reason why documents like 'Sins of HYBE" were found on Min Hee-jin's laptop was simply because HYBE forced her to. She personally created the file to criticize the company but it was never to seize management rights.
9. Because of all this, their relationship with each other worsened, and eventually, as mentioned above, HYBE spread fake news and media play about Min Hee-jin and began a counter-viral campaign against her.
This is the end of the press conference today.
Regarding leaked file of her criticizing HYBE, it's true that she created it but it wasn't for the purpose of taking over management rights. She personally created it to criticize HYBE just like any other office worker would criticize their company.
As for the rumors circulating about ILLIT's "plagiarism", Min Hee-jin acknowledged it and said that Bang Si-hyuk didn't like her or New Jeans so he tried to keep them in check. He deliberately copied New Jeans and launched ILLIT without any morals.
When they asked her about her criticisms of ILLIT, she added, "What wrong did ILLIT do? It's the adult's fault. I never mentioned it to personally criticize the idols. Whether it's New Jeans or ILLIT or Le Sserafim, it's inevitable for me to mention it if i'm going to tell the story."
(In fact, if you look at Min Hee-jin's press conference, it's true that the story cannot proceed without mentioned the idol groups name so it seems to have been unavoidable."
Anyway, there it is. The main content of today's press conference.
It seems like she dropped everything and went crazy. She was criticized for 3 days and stayed up all night for the press conference. Maybe that's why she directly cursed HYBE (ㅅㅂ ssibal, ㄱㅅㄲ, pig ㅅㄲ, etc.) + parts where she sobbed while mentioning New Jeans. This may be seen as a bit reckless and careless but it also shows that the current situation is incredibly unfair and painful.
+) HYBE's claims that Min Hee-jin made a comment criticizing BTS are not true. Min Hee-jin said she never made such a statement. She also said the articles about her "stealing SOURCE trainees, refusing to submit laptops, and criticizing Bangtan' following the reverse viral article" are also false narratives and media play spread by HYBE.
++) You can see the part where the members were sobbing while mentioning it in the video. Everyone said that even though they were not fans, that part was truly sad, I was also really sad about that.
There have been claims circulating that HYBE was behind New Jeans becoming luxury brand ambassadors but it turned out that it wasn't HYBE at all, it was all Min Hee-jin who connected it all herself.
HYBE's comments that "they would protect New Jeans" were just words. All they did was throw away the settlement amount to piss off New Jeans.
If you look at the contents of the press conference, it seems HYBE has hit rockbottom.
At the beginning of the press conference, there were so many comments on YouTube cursing and ridiculing Min Hee-jin but as the story progressed, public opinion changed towards Min Hee-jin.
- [+1,072, -37] No.. Bang Si-hyuk's Katalk is seriously giving me goosebumps... do HYBE fans really think he's just a wealthy chaebol, an idiot otaku who really knows nothing??From the beginning, did they really think Bang Si-hyuk was someone who would foolishly give Min Hee-jin everything and just get stabbed in the back like a fool? ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ honestly it was obvious to anyone looking. Over the past 3 days, there have been articles pushing Min Hee-jin to the brink and people have flocked to the commuity and dragged Min Hee-jin to rockbottom as if she had done something somewhere ╋ Pity for Bang Si-hyuk? He wasn't going to give everything away like an idiot, he completely manipulated public opinionㅋㅋㅋㅋ just like Min Hee-jin said, 'Big 3' agency media play is seriously scary.
- [+973, -41] Honestly, Min Hee-jin's press conference today was refreshing. There are some kids who can't hold back their anger for her curses at Bang Si-hyuk or when she cried talking about New Jeans, calling her a 'stupid old lady who is just over-emotional', but that's because of the parts that were shown. In fact, if you sum up all of Min Hee-jin's words, she's the one who's logical and detailed in everything. The whole drama was exposed ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Frankly, listening to Min Hee-jin's true story about HYBE that she exposed today really touched me more and changed my mind more than HYBE's 'media play' articles that they put out in succession.
- [+907, -34] It's totally true that HYBE bullied Min Hee-jin too openly.. Bang Si-hyuk is really a thug iljin just like Min Hee-jin said 함 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
- [+849, -31] Min Hee-jin: "Don't look favorably on large conglomerates, think of the poor too" There's a reason why she said this.. HYBE just tried to kill Min Hee-jin... ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ They tried to kill her by spreading rumors about her 'criticizing Bangtan with a reverse viral' and spread articles about her not wanting to submit her laptop, stealing management rights, and idols from Source etc., but since it was a fight between a large conglomerate HYBE and Min Hee-jin's personl life, of course Min Hee-jin would be the one in a disadvantage...
- [+723, -33] The churches that sung praises about HYBE and said Min Hee-jin did a 'reverse viral' and got kicked but it was actually him all along.. Bang Si-hyuk : "You can step on aespa right? ㅎㅎ ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅌㅋㅋ
- [+352, -9] A bunch of thugs banding together to gang up and kill a popular girl..
- [+339, -5] Please add this too ㅋㅋㅋ There were a lot of articles saying that Min Hee-jin cursed Bangtan but even that was HYBE too f*ckㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ It was Bang Si-hyuk himself who cursed them right.. ... you can step on aespa right? ㅇㅈㄹ
- [+334, -3] There's a reason why she was so sensitive and reacted like that to the ILLIT copy. ILLIT was made to step on New Jeans.
- [+318, -10] She's so cool.. why she really defeated a conglomerate on her own ㅋㅋ Trying to get even one person to unfollow is scary.
- [+152, -2] Wow.. it's seriously terrible that even SM fell for this pig ㅋㅋㅌㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ