Former CEO of ADOR, Min Hee Jin, told in a podcast how he reacted when he came into contact with the “music industry report” issued weekly by HYBE
With the repercussions caused by the leak of 20 pages, out of 18 thousand of HYBE’s “music industry report”, containing malicious comments about k-pop artists and companies, it was the turn of the former CEO of ADOR, Min Hee Jingrant her position on the content that was originally presented in the audit of the Culture, Sports and Tourism Committee of the National Assembly of South Korea, carried out on October 24, as she claims to have received the documents at the time they were directed to C-level executives and conglomerate subsidiaries.
The businesswoman’s statements appeared last Tuesday, 29th, on the popular music critic’s YouTube channel Kim Young Dae(via Koreaboo), where she appeared as a guest. At the time, the businesswoman stated that, against her own will, she kept quiet about the document for a year, until she finally stopped reading them and sent an email condemning the content published weekly.
Well, there’s a reason I rejected the document that’s now in everyone’s spotlight… I wrote a scathing email criticizing it. I was like, ‘I held myself back for a whole year, but I can’t take this anymore. What are you doing?! For whose benefit are these reports being written? Do you guys think this is fun or something?’. It ended up stressing me out so much that I stopped reading them. Like, I couldn’t bring myself to read any of it. What purpose did it serve? Who did it serve? I couldn’t understand.”
Furthermore, she was against the document due to the results they could have on the behavior of the K-pop entertainment industry.
But what really scared me about this document was… Given how big the business had grown, there were a lot of people who really didn’t know anything about industry practices being hired. Some of them have taken on higher, C-level positions, too. And all these people were learning about the entertainment business through this document, basically. This terrified me.
And the thing is, people who are just starting out tend to learn to believe and do what they are told. So for these people to receive material like this? What would this do to the entertainment industry in the long run? Maybe these people might think something is a little wrong at first. But people adjust. They might think, ‘Maybe I’m the weird one’ or ‘Maybe this is how this industry works’. I’m just saying that this document may have developed some really misperceptions.”
Finally, the former CEO reinforced the point about how inappropriate the content was: “I said, ‘Look. If you all think there’s nothing wrong with these reports, then you should let everyone take a look.'”
Also read: HYBE issues statement on document with malicious comments about K-Pop artists
Source: Recreio
