This is about the audit initiated by HYBE into ADOR's management and CEO Min Hee Jin.

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  • The conference was held starting just after 3PM KST and ran for over two hours.

  • MHJ spoke almost continuously in a mostly unstructured way. Two lawyers present only spoke briefly or urged her to stop speaking on issues that shouldn't be made public. Some questions were taken from reporters at the end.

  • The legal allegations posed by HYBE were not addressed much other than to deny she was trying to take over ADOR and that the chat and documents presented by HYBE as evidence were simply normal personal complaints among employees about their jobs and bosses.

  • She mainly focused on detailing the internal politics within HYBE, showing examples of chats with HYBE executives Park Jiwon and Bang Sihyuk throughout.

  • Her primary frustration was the process of debuting the three girl groups under HYBE: LE SSERAFIM, NewJeans, and ILLIT. She believed NewJeans was formed to be the first HYBE girl group, but was betrayed when plans were made to debut LE SSERAFIM first. After NewJeans achieved great success following their debut, she felt it was another betrayal that ILLIT was debuted in another label following the same conceptual trend as NewJeans.

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