On April 25, Min Hee-jin held a press conference, where she revealed various information related to the ongoing ADOR-HYBE feud.
Here, the CEO of ADOR not only insisted that she did nothing wrong but also mentioned various “wrong-doings” committed by HYBE.
In particular, Min Hee-jin expressed her frustration at HYBE’s decision to cast Sakura and Kim Chaewon for LE SSERAFIM, saying, “NewJeans was initially promoted as HYBE’s first girl group. Hyein received a lot of casting offers at the time, but she came (to ADOR) for this ‘first HYBE girl group’ title.”
“However, they (HYBE) cast Sakura and Kim Chaewon without telling me. I was so angry to the point of wanting to resign, and even told them I couldn’t continue working”, she also said.
It is known that NewJeans was supposed to be the first girl group to debut under HYBE. However, Source Music recruited former IZ*ONE members Sakura and Kim Chaewon and ended up debuting LE SSERAFIM before NewJeans, causing the latter to lose out on the ‘first HYBE girl group’ title.
