ADOR Accused Of Stealing NewJeans Members, Member's Parents Reveal Source Music's Bad Condition

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JAKARTA - Parents member of the NewJeans group opened their voices regarding accusations of their children being forcibly moved from the Source Music label to ADOR, the label that Min Hee Jin founded. All of these labels are units of the HYBE company founded by Bang Si Hyuk.

This news began when Dispatch reported Min Hee Jin stealing NewJeans members from Source Music. ADOR denied the allegations and said Source Music imitated the debut concept he made when he presented it to Bang Si Hyuk in May 2020 when he was still the Chief Brand Officer of BIGHIT MUSIC.

At that time, Bang Si Hyuk advised Min Hee Jin to carry out her debut concept through her own label. Source Music then released a statement on the contents of the rebuttal and said that the concept made by Min Hee Jin was not originally for N Team (later NewJeans) but for other groups. After that, Hee Jin even applied the concept with NewJeans.

Today, Wednesday, July 24, NewJeans members' parents criticized Source Music while supporting ADOR. They felt their children were insecure during training at Source Music and were happier when they joined ADOR.

'Minji started a trainee at Source Music after moving to Seoul herself at the age of 13. When I was still thinking about Minji in that neighborhood, my heart hurt," Minji's parents quoted Sports World as saying.

Minji's parents admitted that they were only allowed to meet Minji after one year. When they saw Minji's place of residence, they were surprised that Minji lived in a place full of fire. Not to mention, Minji doesn't know when he debuted and continued to undergo a training period.

What makes Minji difficult is waiting for his debut time without giving an explanation. No debut plans and no groups have been formed. There are no definite plans about his future. With this condition, they make him practice until 2 am every morning including Saturday and Sunday," he said.

His parents also said Source Music asked Minji to leave school even though he really likes school. Then, another label (ADOR) offers a joint debut and Minji's parents support it because Minji can still finish her school despite preparing her debut with NewJeans.

"We are happy that Min Hee Jin and ADOR and Minji are still at ADOR and we never thought about getting out of the label. The problem is HYBE continues to bother us. I remember all the reports that came out for three days on April 22. The report even tried to accuse NewJeans and their parents," said Minji's parents.

Likewise with Hyein and Haerin's parents who opened their voices representing Hanni's parents in Australia. They questioned Source Music, accusing ADOR of debuting NewJeans.

If Source Music feels they're being blamed, why don't they explain? There's a change and only feels right if So Sung Jin gives an explanation, but they don't. When we signed the contract, they talked about what we wanted to hear but we never met, "said Hyein and Haerin's parents.

They also criticized HYBE for releasing a music video containing N Team trainees without ADOR's permission. In the video circulating, N Team can be seen dancing the song Attention in a demonstration with the choreography of seven people. Five NewJeans members were seen while the other two were covered.

"There is evidence that HYBE abandoned NewJeans. I think they want us to reveal everything," said Haerin and Hyein's parents.