Former Ador CEO Min Hee-jin has publicly refuted allegations that she as soon as urged staff to not help the Democratic Get together of Korea, calling the accusation a distortion of feedback she made years earlier than her label even existed.
On Nov. 28, Min posted a prolonged assertion saying, “I’ve all the time supported the Democratic Get together and I personally voted for President Moon Jae-in. I by no means imagined my disappointment with the true property coverage in 2020 could be twisted like this.”
She added that these near her are effectively conscious of her long-standing help for present President Lee Jae Myung courting again to his years as Seongnam mayor. “I attended impeachment rallies and persistently despatched provides to protesters,” she stated. “I don’t perceive what sort of framing that is primarily based on a personal KakaoTalk dialog. And 2020 was earlier than ADOR was even based.”
Min additionally uploaded a video that seems to indicate her at a rally calling for former President Yoon Suk Yeol’s impeachment, together with a photograph of herself taken on June 3 throughout the nation’s snap presidential election. Within the picture, she stands in entrance of a blue backdrop carrying a pale blue shirt and carrying a big blue bag — colours related to the Democratic Get together.
Allegations resurface in court docket
The controversy intensified on Nov. 27 throughout a listening to on the Seoul Central District Court docket, the place two civil fits between HYBE and Min are underway: HYBE’s request to substantiate the termination of a shareholder settlement, and Min’s declare for inventory repurchase fee tied to her put possibility.
Throughout cross-examination, HYBE’s authorized group offered a put up from an office-worker group board. The put up alleged that earlier than an election, Min informed employees to not vote for the Democratic Get together and even reprimanded an worker for 3 hours after studying they’d executed so.
HYBE additionally submitted KakaoTalk messages by which Min allegedly wrote to an worker, “Why did you vote for the Democratic Get together?”, “If there’s no social gathering to vote for, you shouldn’t vote. Like me,” and “Why vote while you don’t even know effectively?”
Min countered that each the group put up and the KakaoTalk messages date again to round December 2020 — once more insisting this was earlier than ADOR existed and due to this fact unrelated to her management on the firm.
Min accuses HYBE of political framing
Min additional launched excerpts of feedback from the choose, HYBE’s legal professionals, her personal authorized group, and herself throughout the listening to. She argued that HYBE was “attempting to impose an irrelevant political body on the case,” including that she kept away from responding in court docket solely as a result of the choose stated the matter lacked relevance.
HYBE and Min stay locked in an ongoing authorized dispute over the shareholder settlement and the put-option fee, with either side anticipated to proceed their courtroom battle within the coming months.
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