[instiz] ACTUALLY, THE NEWJEANS MEMBERS’ DEBUT HAS BEEN NEGLECTED EVEN WHEN THEY WERE PREPARING FOR THEIR DEBUT

1. Bang Sihyuk recruited Min Heejin, suggesting they create HYBE’s first girl group together

2. He proposed that trainees be selected from Source Music, but Min Heejin decided to select only Minji and hold auditions. 

Through the auditions, Hanni was chosen, and Haerin was cast by Min Heejin. Danielle, a former YG trainee, was brought in, and Hyein was the last member to join.

3. Bang Sihyuk, dissatisfied with Min Heejin’s approach to the girl group preparation and concept, suddenly brought in Sakura and Kim Chaewon from IZONE and began preparing them for HYBE’s first girl group. 

During this time, the NewJeans members, who were still trainees, and their parents were left in the dark without any explanation, essentially neglected.

4. Angry over this, Min Heejin created her own label, ADOR, and prepared NewJeans under that label. Naturally, this delayed their debut.

5. Before their debut, Bang Sihyuk interfered, suggesting that Danielle be removed from the lineup, but Min Heejin stood firm and finalized the current members. NewJeans debuted two months after LE SSERAFIM, which included Sakura and Kim Chaewon. 

(It was unprecedented for two girl groups to debut within two months of each other from the same company)

Until their second year after debut, nothing was publicly disclosed about how the NewJeans members were formed.

The only thing known was that Minji was a Source Music trainee and had appeared in an audition promotional video. The conflict between HYBE and Min Heejin eventually became public knowledge, revealing the details of how the group came together.

1. This seriously infuriates me

2. Please let NewJeans goㅋㅋㅋㅋ Low-HYBE-yah

3. Apparently Haerin was cast by Min Heejin!

4. The final evaluation for NewJeans’ debut lineup was at the end of March, but it was said that they were neglected for a few months afterward… And around this time, rumors about Sakura joining HYBE started circulating in early May..ㅋㅋ the timing really matches up. Starting in April, they essentially neglected NewJeans while reaching out to and making deals with Sakura

5. NewJeans, fighting

6. NewJeansㅠㅠㅠㅠ

7. NewJeans, fighting. Min Heejin, fighting. I will support you guys until the end🐰🐰

8. NewJeansㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ babiesㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ

9. Didn’t HYBE release another group’s solo album on NewJeans’s comeback date??

> From what I remembered, fans were shielding HYBE saying how HYBE has too many singers under them so it couldn’t be helped. But it made me wonder if just delaying it by 1 day is that hard? For real, they really saw them as competition

10. Wow, I can fully understand the content of Min Heejin’s Katalks now….