The fight between ADOR and HYBE continues, this time, the CEO of ADOR accused several groups of plagiarizing NewJeans (2022), including BTS (2013); understand!
Amid the fight between HYBE and ADOR, Min Hee Jin, CEO of ADOR stated that groups from the fifth generation of k-pop, such as ILLIT (2024), TWS (2024), BOYNEXTDOOR (2023) and RIIZE (2023) plagiarized NewJeans (2022). In addition to them, BTS (2013) was also accused of copying the girl group.
In the K-pop industry, it is known that Hee Jin always commented on BTS having copied her, after debuting on HYBE. Formed in 2013 by Big Hit Entertainment (currently BigHit Music), BTS is made up of 7 members. Are they: RM, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, V It is Jungkook.
We were informed that during a meeting with CEO Min Hee Jin, she stated that ILLIT, TWS and RIIZE copied NewJeans… Furthermore, she stated that Bang Sihyuk copied her and made BTS,” the Yonhap News report read.
In response to the CEO’s accusations, ARMYs, fans of the boy group BTS, expressed their opinions through X (formerly Twitter). Since, for them, there was no plagiarism, as it was formed many years before NewJeans. Check out some reactions below!
More about the case
According to the website Koreaboo, in a report by Yonhap News, an anonymous source revealed that during the audit, Min Hee Jin talked about Bang Si Hyuk, president of HYBE, claiming that he only got where he is by always copying her. See the excerpt below!
In fact, he copied from me and got here,” Hee Jin said in a released quote.
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