3 Hanni NewJeans Statements When Witnessing Bullying At The National Assembly

Hanni NewJeans (Instagram @newjeans_official)

JAKARTA - Hanni NewJeans fulfilled the call of the National Council of the Environmental and Manpower Committee to testify about bullying at work. He was present at the National Assembly on Tuesday, October 15 yesterday and became the first K-pop idol to speak out about the situation.

Hanni's decision to speak about bullying in the workplace was because he wanted something like this not to happen to generations in the future, both senior and junior in the entertainment industry.

Here are 5 statements by Hanni NewJeans regarding bullying at work:

Hanni explained that this situation had happened more than twice. It is known that last month Hanni revealed that she experienced bullying when greeting a group at the HYBE office but their manager asked the group to ignore Hanni.

When living in Korea, I understand we have to greet older people. I don't think greeting them can be considered rude as people. There is such an atmosphere in the company. It's hard to say anything and only people who feel it feels like it," said Hanni NewJeans.

"I don't understand why I had to go through this and why the person said that in the work environment. This has happened more than once and twice and if I keep quiet, this will pass. This can happen to anyone. I decided to attend, hoping that now, seniors, juniors, and colleagues will not experience this," he continued.

Hanni revealed that she read the alleged bullying from employees of the HYBE company through the Blind application. The Blind application is an application where users can talk about the company anonymously. Users of the application are employees of the company.

I also saw employees talking about the group (NewJeans) in the Blind app. In fact, I saw the public relations team trying to demean our debut results in Japan. Seeing that all, I realized that this was not just a feeling but I felt the company hated us," said Hanni.

Hanni had reported an incident with the new CEO of ADOR, Kim Joo Young. However, Hanni did not get a satisfactory answer because their CEO said there was no such incident. When CCTV footage was checked, the company changed their reasons many times.

I asked why some clips were deleted. I explained to them but during the meeting, they kept changing the reasons why the clip was deleted. They changed the reason and made a mistake when responding," Hanni continued.

"Because I am Vietnamese-Australian, I can't understand Korean 100% even though I tried. I didn't want to miss anything at the meeting, so I recorded everything. I have proof they lied," he said.