MHJ correspondence leaked, slams NewJeans
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This is too long for ONTD to read, in short MHJ was audited and found to be trying to leave Hybe and take NewJeans with her. More correspondence was discovered which was pretty damning. MHJ did a press conference that won over the general public. These new statements have her showing her ass, and in part laying out a plan to fool the public into being on her side.
Please see the following three posts about what is happening so far between MHJ and Hybe - one two three. For a refresher:
*MHJ is the CEO of ADOR, a label nested under Hybe, which is the company that owns groups like BTS, Le Sserafim, NewJeans, TXT, Enhyphen, ILLIT, Seventeen, and more.
*MHJ was originally under Source Music, the company Hybe owns that houses Le Sserafim, and was told she could create the "girl BTS" there. She didn't like the timetable for it among other things(?), so she was offered the position of CEO of ADOR, and told that she could create her group there, which would become NewJeans. Source Music had been promised the girl-BTS thing and had a release date already, whereas MHJ wanted to release her group in the third quarter of the year instead of earlier. So Source debuted Le Sserafim, which got MHJ big mad (not hard, as she hates pretty much every Hybe group except for NewJeans (who she arguably also hates, more on that later)), and she felt that Hybe was sabotaging her.
*Anyway, in April Hybe performed an in-house audit of ADOR, specifically of MHJ, and wanted her to step down. ADOR said it was bullshit and that Hybe was trying to sabotage by putting out another girl group, ILLIT. The audit found a lot of proof that ADOR and MHJ were trying to separate from Hybe. MHJ specifically wanted to separate NewJeans and have them come with her.
*MHJ has the support of the parents of NewJeans, and supposedly of NewJeans themselves, but who knows. There have been allegations of (non-sexual) grooming of them by MHJ.
*MHJ held a very long press conference, dressed poorly and crying. This gained her a tremendous amount of support, especially in Korea, as women are regularly run over by men in business, and she was not only fighting that but putting a human face to the issue. Hybe issued a very long reply addressing each of her posts and basically saying they were BS. They also told her to stop mentioning NewJeans with this drama because it was unprofessional.
*Then there was talk of Hybe being in league with a cult
*More texts have now come to light. In short, they talk of how to get the public on her side, as well as horrible things being said about NewJeans, the group that she feels are solely hers and that they look up to her. The following were found by Hybe during their audit:
TW: fatphobia!
"Just tell them to stay humble. Even if they get as fat as a pig, I'm making sure they gather popularity," "If they pretend to be cool while saying impressive things, but don't even greet me, I'll feel like I want to kill them," "What would they know? They just look in the mirror," and "They didn't get popular because they did well." "Fat elementary schoolers who can't lose a single pound and get scolded to death," and "Wow, XX is so fat and ugly." There were derogatory remarks towards fans as well, including, "Watching brainless kids going crazy calling themselves fans."
*Regarding leaving Hybe, she says in texts that they can begin their PR war and that getting the general public on her side is the goal. It all looks like her press conference -- from appearance to crying -- was planned in advance. Please see the below translation of the texts shared at the source:
source source source and please please check out the links above, the write ups by varioussaints are amazing!! (i'll post the full reddit thread of what was said by MHJ in the comments since its not an actual source)