[theqoo] NEWJEANS MEMBERS’ PARENTS OPEN THEIR INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT

“Hello. We are the parents of Minji, Hanni, Danielle, Haerin, and Hyein.

This account is a temporary one, created out of necessity to represent our stance in the dispute with HYBE.

As we had no official platform to communicate our position, we made numerous efforts to relay the facts through direct interviews with various media outlets or by providing information to journalists we were able to reach.

While we are grateful that some media outlets reported our statements as they were, they were very few. We also attempted to distribute statements through an agency, but headlines were misleadingly written, making it extremely difficult for our stance to be conveyed accurately through the press.

While the members’ statements have only been published in a handful of articles unless they were distorted or placed within a negative narrative, HYBE and ADOR have been mass-distributing hundreds of articles daily, including those from pro-company media, without undergoing the standard journalistic fact-checking or right-to-reply processes. These articles often spread false information or only reflect HYBE and ADOR’s position.

[Unfortunately, we have received reports that, ahead of the injunction lawsuit, HYBE and ADOR are once again distributing rumors and fabricated claims to multiple journalists in an attempt to spread false narratives about the members. This has led us to create this account.]

We understand that some may be exhausted from this prolonged dispute, and we sincerely apologize for that. However, the content shared through this account will mainly cover matters that the members themselves find difficult to address. As their only current representatives, we are in urgent need of a channel to correct misinformation and provide accurate facts. We ask for your understanding.”

1. HYBE, seriously, you need to crumble

2. You guys worked hard. Fighting, fighting