K-pop producer Min Hee-jin causes online stir after lashing out at industry bosses

SEOUL, South Korea — The creative director behind the girl band NewJeans has found online fame after a tearful, profanity-laced news conference in which she slammed some of K-pop’s most powerful executives as “middle-aged jerks.” HYBE, the South Korean agency behind K-pop sensation BTS, filed a legal complaint on Thursday, April 25, against Min Hee Jin, the head of its powerhouse subsidiary label ADOR, for breach of trust in business. That followed an announcement three days earlier that it had launched an audit of ADOR and demanded that Min resign. HYBE’s share price fell close to 10 percent after the audit […]…

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