ADOR CEO Min Hee Jin's shaman, identified as Jiyeongnim0814 has vanished after some of her private messages were leaked by Dispatch from HYBE Labels. This has heated up the ongoing feud between HYBE and Hee Jin.
According to the leaked messages, Hee Jin reportedly consulted a shaman in order to determine the NewJeans member lineup and apparently paid 40 million Korean won, which translates to Rs 24.18 lakh, reports Koreaboo. She allegedly calls out feminists while passing some harsh remarks against her trainees in the conversation.
Korean media on Friday reportedly tried to track down the shaman who has disappeared from the temple from they were running the operations while the registered phone number is unreachable.
HYBE alleged that Min Hee Jin used the label's work email to send numerous official documents, including the conversation with the shaman. The emails, which were available in the HYBE servers, were sent to an official at a partner company, according to the label.
Hee Jin has filed a lawsuit against five senior HYBE officials, accusing them of defamation, unauthorised access to electronic records, network intrusion and obstruction of business. These include CEO Park Ji Won, Chief Financial Officer Lee Kyung Joon, Chief Legal Officer Jung Jin Soo, Chief Communication Officer Park Tae Hee and Audit Committee Chair Lim Soo Hyun.
NewJeans label alleged that the accused officials took ADOR's business laptops under the guise of an audit, adding that they tampered with the leaked personal conversations to creat press releases with false information about Hee Jin's management and business performance.
Meanwhile, HYBE slammed Hee Jin over a lawsuit filed by her, claiming that she never returned any company assets including laptops to the label nor did she comply with its audits. It added that two deputy CEOs had volunarily submitted their information assets without any coercion.
